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Doklam standoff
ends: India pull troops, no word on Beijing’s road along border
New
Delhi/Beijing:India said on Monday it had agreed with China to pull back troops
to end a months-long face-off along a disputed Himalayan region, but there was
no word on whether Beijing will stop building a road that triggered the row.The
decision put a lid on one of the most serious disputes between the
nuclear-armed neighbours who share a 3,500-km mountain frontier that remains
unmarked at places. It came days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi travels to
China to attend a summit of BRICS — a grouping that also includes Brazil,
Russia and South Africa.New Delhi said the two sides had diplomatic exchanges
in recent weeks over the situation on Doklam plateau in the eastern Himalayas. “During
these communications, we were able to express our views and convey our concerns
and interests,” India’s foreign ministry said in a short statement, without
giving details of the disengagement. “On this basis, expeditious disengagement
of border personnel at the face-off site at Doklam has been agreed to and is
ongoing.”Within the hour, the Chinese foreign ministry responded, saying its
forces will continue to patrol Doklam — a disputed stretch between Bhutan and
China — to exercise its sovereignty and uphold territorial integrity.China’s
foreign ministry spokesperson Hua Chunying told a daily news briefing that
“Chinese personnel on the ground have verified” that Indian forces withdrew to
their side of the border on Monday afternoon.“In the light of the changes of
the situation on the ground China will make necessary adjustment and
deployment,” she said.Neither side spoke on the status of a road whose
construction by Chinese troops had triggered the standoff. India says any
construction in the region will violate a 2012 trilateral agreement on the
border.Later, external affairs ministry spokesperson Raveesh Kumar said the
disengagement has since been “almost completed under verification”.“India has
always maintained that it is only through diplomatic channels that differences
on such matters can be addressed. Our principled position is that agreements
and understandings reached on boundary issues must be scrupulously respected,”
he said. hindustantimes
Indian, China agree
on Doklam troop 'disengagement': MEA says India agreed with China on
'expeditious disengagement' of border troops
China claims India
has withdrawn troops in Doklam, silent on plans to build road
Dera Sacha chief Gurmeet
sentenced to 20 yrs of imprisonment for rapes: indianexpress
New Delhi:A special
CBI court Monday sentenced Dera Sacha Sauda chief Baba Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh
to 20 years of imprisonment. CBI Judge Jagdeep Singh pronounced two sentences
of 10 years rigorous imprisonment in each of the two cases that date back to
2002, said defence lawyer SK Garg Narwana. He said both sentences will run
consecutively for a total of 20 years in jail for the flamboyant guru who has
millions of followers and counts politicians as well as celebrities as his
friends.Singh also fined him Rs 15 lakh in each of the two cases, of which Rs
14 lakh each would go to the two victims who were part of his sect and were
coerced into having sex with him. Defence counsel sought leniency from the
court arguing that Ram Rahim was active in social work and had health issues.
He said he will appeal against the orders in a high court.“It is 20 years
punishment and both the sentences shall not run concurrent. It means, he shall
remain inside the jail for 20 years. Court has also imposed a fine of Rs. 30
lakh on Dera chief (Rs. 15 lakh in each of the case of two rapes that he
committed). The fine shall be payable Rs. 15 lakh each to both the rape
victims),” said HPS Verma, CBI counsel in the case.The sentencing came three
days after the CBI court in Panchkula held Singh guilty of rape. Due to risks
of rising tensions in parts of Haryana and Punjab over the sentencing, the
judge was flown into the special courtroom setup inside the Sunaria jail in
Rohtak in a helicopter. A 3-tier security ring was set up around the district
jail.During the hearing of arguments in the court before the sentencing, the
prosecution asked for maximum punishment for Singh.
It is 20 years in
jail for Dera chief, not 10 years
‘Koi mujhe bacha
lo’: High drama inside courtroom as convicted rapist Gurmeet pleads for mercy
New Delhi: *Soon
after the quantum of his sentence was pronounced, Gurmeet Singhbroke into tears
and pleaded for mercy with folded hands. Later on, he refused to leave the
courtroom. “Thodi ji riyayat (have some mercy),” a weeping Gurmeet Ram told the
judge, DNA reports. According to News18, baba was not cooperating with security
personnel, who warned him that he would be taken inside the jail forcefully if
he doesn’t follow the rules. While being dragged out of the court, Ram Rahim,
who describes himself as a “scientist” and “de-addiction specialist”, kept on
crying saying ‘koi mujhe bacha lo (somebody save me)’, DNA report adds. Adding
more drama, rape convict guru subsequently complained of severe uneasiness as
ambulance rushed inside jail premises. “I need urgent medical help and the
state will be responsible if anything happens to me,” said guru outside court,
according to News18.
Ram Rahim
sentencing: Our stand vindicated, says son of murdered journalist
Asaram Bapu case: SC
questions Gujarat government over slow pace of trial
New Delhi:The
Supreme Court on Monday slammed the Gujarat government for dragging its feet in
the trial of self-styled godman Asaram Bapu. SC asked the state counsel why the
rape victim has not been examined till date.A bench comprising justices NV
Ramanna and Amitava Roy asked the state government to file an affidavit in this
regard and posted the matter for further hearing after Diwali.Earlier in April,
a bench comprising of the then Chief Justice JS Khehar and Justices D Y
Chandrachud and S K Kaul directed a Gujarat trial to expedite hearing in the
case.“The trial court is directed to expedite the examination of witnesses as
expeditiously as may be practically possible,”bench had said. Appearing for Gujarat
govt,Additional Solicitor General Tushar Mehta had said 29 prosecution
witnesses have already been examined and the statements of 46 witnesses are yet
to be recorded. indianexpress
SC to hear pleas
relating to ban on SIMI separately on Oct 13
New Delhi: The
Supreme Court today said it would hear on Oct.13 a batch of petitions,
including one of the Centre, relating to the governments decisions to ban SIMI
from time to time.A bench comprising Chief Justice Dipak Misra and Justices A M
Khanwilkar and D Y Chandrachud decided to segregate the writ petitions challenging
provisions of the UAPA from those related to the ban on SIMI and fixed the
former for hearing separately on Nov.9.UAPA Tribunal, headed by Delhi HC judge
Justice Suresh Kait, in 2014 had confirmed the Centres decision to extend by
another five years, that is till 2019, the ban on SIMI.The banned outfit has
filed appeals in the SC against every ban order passed by the tribunal from
time to time since 2001.The Centre had also filed an appeal in the top court in
2008 against an order passed by Justice Gita Mittal tribunal lifting the ban on
SIMI. The tribunal had said that the evidence against the SIMI was not enough
to justify the extension of ban under the UAPA. However, a day later, the
Supreme Court stayed the order lifting the ban.Today, the court considered the
statement of Attorney General K K Venugopal, representing the Centre, that the
pending pleas deal with various issues including the challenge to the ban
imposed on SIMI and the validity of certain provisions of the UAPA.PTI
AAP Wins Bawana
Bypoll, TDP Gets Nandyal, BJP Bags Panaji, Valpoi
New Delhi: BJP on
Monday won 2 out of 4 seats where counting was conducted for Assembly
byelections. BJP won the 2 seats in Goa, its ally TDP won the Andhra Pradesh
seat, while the AAP won Delhi Assembly seat. The seats that went to poll on
August 23 were – Bawana in Delhi, Panaji and Valpoi in Goa and Nandyal in
Andhra Pradesh.The AAP emerged winner in the contest that turned out to be the
most interesting on Monday with trends changing every hour. While the Congress
was leading in the first 8 rounds of counting, the AAP took the lead from the
ninth round while Congress was pushed to second. In the next few rounds, while
AAP emerged as a clear winner, BJP pushed the Congress to the third
position.AAP’s Ram Chander won the seat after he got 59886 votes while BJP’s
Ved Prakash got 35834 votes and Congress’s Surender Kumar received 31919 votes.
Bawana seat went vacant after Ved Prakash, who had left the BJP and won the
seat in 2015 from the AAP resigned from the seat and went back to the BJP. It
was, therefore, being seen as a prestige battle for both AAP and BJP. It also
comes as a breather for AAP which suffered losses in MCD elections as well as
the Rajouri Garden bypoll.Goa CM Manohar Parrikar won the Panaji byelection by
4,803 votes, defeating Girish Raya Chodankar of the Congress. After the
victory, Parrikar said that he will resign from his Rajya Sabha seat next week.
Panaji bypoll was necessitated after BJP’s sitting MLA, Siddharth Kuncolienkar,
vacated the seat for Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, who has to get elected to
the Assembly within 6 months of becoming the CM. Goa Health Minister Vishwajeet
Rane won the Valpoi byelection by over 6,000 seats. He defeated Congress’s
candidate Roy Naik. india
AAP retains Bawana
seat in Delhi by margin of over 24,000 votes
Modi Cabinet
reshuffle likely this week: Sharad Pawar may get a Cabinet berth
Centre is likely to
reshuffle the Cabinet this week to include JD(U) and NCP in NDA gov. According
to a Times Now, 5 Minister of States may get promoted, and members from JD(U)
and NCP may get Cabinet berths. As per reports, Sharad Pawar may also join the
Modi Cabinet. Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) is likely to be rewarded for joining the
NDA and Sharad Pawar-led NCP may get a Cabinet berths for its open defiance of
the Congress leadership in the recent past. After Railway minister Suresh
Prabhu's offer to resign, there could be a change of leadership at the
ministry. Economictimes
HC seeks Centre’s
reply on plea against acquisition of Waqf properties
New Delhi: Delhi
High Court today sought response of the Centre on a PIL challenging the
acquisition of over 300 Waqf properties in national capital by the Centre.A
bench of Acting Chief Gita Mittal and Justice C Hari Shankar issued notice to
the Lieutenant Governor, the AAP government and the Delhi Waqf Board on a plea
which sought to restore the possession of Waqf properties which were allegedly
taken over by the government without paying any compensation.The bench directed
authorities concerned to file status report before the next date of hearing,
Dec 11.The petitioner, advocate Shahid Ali, said the intentions of officials
concerned of the Centre are malafide, contrary to the principles of natural
justice and violative of the fundamental rights of citizens.The plea said that
when any land is acquired by the government, an applicable compensation is paid
to the owner.In this case, the Waqf land “is vested with God and no
compensation can be made to the God” and hence, no acquirement can be made, it
claimed.“Allotment of Waqf land by the government to any person or institution
or even acquirement of thereof is void under section 51 of Waqf Act 1995 which
provided that any lease or any immovable property which is Waqf property, shall
be void unless such lease is effective with the prior sanction of board,” the
plea said.PTI
Kerala health dept
to conduct inquiry into practice of female genital mutilation
Kerala Health
department will conduct an inquiry into reports about the alleged prevalence of
primitive female genital mutilation practice in the state.Health minister KK
Shylaja directed the Health Director to conduct an urgent preliminary inquiry
into the matter.The inquiry was ordered in the wake of recent media reports
that ‘chela karmam’, the practice of removing the genital skin of girl
children, is conducted in some medical clinics in Kozhikode and
Thiruvananthapuram districts.According to media reports, such centres
facilitate the altering or injuring of female genital organs by ritual cutting
or removing the skin for non-medical reasons.“The report was really shocking.
The practise is not only primitive and superstitious but also an insult to the
womanhood,” Shylaja told PTI.PTI
Exclusive: J&K
Governor Vohra likely to resign
New Delhi : 10
months ahead of his term ending, Jammu and Kashmir Governor NN Vohra is likely
to resign from his post. Sources have told Indian Express that the development
could take place as early as this week, even today. Vohra, serving his second
term, took over from SK Sinha on June 25,2008.This follows speculation, in July
this year, that he was seeking to retire. However, Home Ministry denied reports
saying they received no such letter from the Governor’s office. It has been
known that the Centre has been scouting for a replacement for several months.IndianExpress
Delhi court extends
NIA custody of Kashmiri businessman Zahoor Watali
New Delhi:A Delhi
court today extended by five more days, the NIA custody of Kashmiri businessman
Zahoor Watali, who was arrested for allegedly collecting money from
Pakistan-based terror outfits for Hurriyat leaders. District Judge Poonam A
Bamba, in an in-chamber proceeding, passed the order after the agency sought
ten days custody of Watali for further interrogation, court sources said.The
matter came before the court after the 10-day NIA custody granted to him
earlier ended today. The agency had earlier told the court that it had found
various suspicious documents from the accused during the searches, including
details of bank accounts and cash received by him from various terror
outfits.PTI
Policeman shot dead
by militants in Anantnag district of J&K: Indian express
New Delhi: An ASI
of police was on Monday killed in south Kashmir’s Anantnag district, after
militants fired at him, according to
PTI. A police official said ASI Abdul Rashid, who was on duty without a weapon,
at Mehandi Kadal was fired at and injured by the militants this
afternoon.Rashid received bullet injury in his abdomen and was rushed to
Anantnag district hospital, from where he was referred to Army’s 92 base
hospital at Badamibagh cantonment for specialised treatment. However, despite
efforts by doctors at the hospital, Rashid succumbed to injuries, the police
official added.
Pak says firing by
Indian troops along LoC killed three civilians
Muzaffarabad,
Pakistan:Pakistani police say Indian troops have fired across the Line of
Control in the disputed Kashmir region, killing three civilians.Police official
Ashfaq Hussain said Monday that shelling by Indian troops overnight hit a house
in the Fatehpur area in Haveli district in Pakistan-controlled part of Kashmir,
causing the casualties.Hussain says the shelling also wounded two other people
who were inside the house. He says Pakistani forces returned the fire.Muhammad
Shabbir, a resident in the Chakoti area, says both sides exchanged fire.HT
200 Indian students
marooned in Houston as Hurricane Harvey wreaks havoc
Hyderabad: As many
as 200 Indian students have been marooned and are in neck deep water at the
University of Houston with Hurricane Harvey wreaking havoc in Houston,
US.External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj on Monday evening tweeted that she
had been informed by the Consulate General of India in Houston that efforts
were being made to deliver food."We made efforts for delivery of food but
US Coast Guard did not allow as boats were required for rescue
operations," Sushma Swaraj said adding that Anupam Ray, Consul General at
Houston was organizing the rescue operations."Indian students Shalini and
Nikhil Bhatia are in ICU. We are ensuring that their relatives reach there at
the earliest," the minister said.Meanwhile, the Indian community is
reaching out to the victims of the hurricane to help them. "They have
declared mandatory evacuation to people in new territory by tomorrow evening.
We have no clue how to get out of here, with most of the roads blocked, and
move to a safer place. Please let us know your suggestions," said M
Vasundhara Reddy who posted her appeal in the FB group 'Indians in Houston'.
Tropical storm brings
deadly flooding in Houston
3 arrested for
Jalpaiguri lynchings, police rule out cow vigilantism
Kolkata:3 villagers
were arrested on Monday for allegedly lynching 2 men on suspicion of cattle smuggling
a day earlier in Bengal’s Jalpaiguri district, police said. Killings were not
linked to cow vigilantism, police said, who were yet to ascertain if the two
victims, both Muslims, were cattle smugglers or traders. Hafizul Sheikh, resident
of Dhubri in Assam,and Anwar Hussain,resident of Cooch Behar in Bengal, were
travelling in a van with seven cows when they were attacked by a group of
villagers in Dadon on Sunday.
Health Ministry
sanctions Rs 23-cr projects to AMU
Aligarh : Health
Ministry has sanctioned several projects to AMU, including one to set up a
paediatric cardiology department at Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, its
vice-chancellor Prof. Tariq Mansoor said today.He said the ministry sanctioned
the projects, involving a total cost of Rs 23-crore, under the National Health
Mission. The varsity has also mooted a proposal to set up a pharmacy institute
and a nursing college, he said.PTI
Less regulation,
not removal of minority status, will improve Indian universities:Aparna Kalra, IndiaSpend
WORLD
Report: Saudi, UAE
weapons end up with armed groups in Syria, Iraq
An investigative
report by a Bulgarian journalist says Saudi Arabia and UAE have supplied
Eastern European-made weapons to armed groups in Syria and Iraq using different
intermediaries and diplomatic cover to mask their points of origin and final
destinations.The report, authored by Dilyana Gaytandzhiev, claims Saudi Arabia,
UAE, the US military and several countries have used Azerbaijani state-owned
airlines Silk Way Airlines to transport large quantities of weapons that ended
up in the hands of the ISIL group, Kurdish fighters in the Middle East and
armed groups in Africa."At least 350 diplomatic Silk Way Airlines flights
transported weapons for war conflicts across the world over the last 3
years," says the report, published in Trud, Bulgaria's largest circulated
newspaper."The state aircrafts of Azerbaijan carried on-board tens of tons
of heavy weapons and ammunition headed to terrorists under the cover of
diplomatic flights."According to report,"Saudi has purchased huge
quantities of Eastern European weapons and exported them using Silk Way Airline's
diplomatic flights."In 2016,2017 there were 23 diplomatic flights carrying
weapons from Bulgaria, Serbia and Azerbaijan to Jeddah and
Riyadh".Gaytandzhiev says in the report: "Kingdom [of Saudi] does not
buy those weapons for itself, as Saudi army uses only Western weapons and those
weapons are not compatible with its military standard."Therefore, the
weapons transported on diplomatic flights end up in the hands of terrorist
militants in Syria and Yemen that Saudi Arabia officially admits
supporting."Citing leaked documents that detail flight paths and weapons
cargo of the diplomatic flights, the report shows one aircraft loaded with
mortars and anti-tank grenades including SPG-9 and GP-25 which were later
discovered by the Iraqi army a month ago in an ISIL warehouse in Mosul.Al Jazeera
could not independently confirm the claims made in Gaytandzhiev's report. Saudi
has publicly expressed its support for Syrian fighters trying to topple the
Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad.Multiple attempts by Al Jazeera
by phone and email to reach Silk Way Airlines in Baku for a reaction to the
Trud story proved unsuccessful. Gaytandzhiev said on Thursday in a tweet that
she was fired from her job at Trud after she was interrogated by the Bulgarian
national security which tried to find out her sources. She said she first got
suspicious of the weapons transferred to Syria when she found Bulgarian-made
weapons at the hands "terrorists" in Aleppo while reporting on the
Syrian war there.She said that she then traced those weapons to its Bulgarian
manufacturer only to find out that those weapons were legally exported to Saudi
Arabia, which in turn supplied it to "terrorists" in Syria.A joint
investigation by Al Jazeera and the New York Times revealed a joint CIA-Saudi
operation that supplied weapons to Syrian fighters by shipping through
Jordan.Many of the weapons, the investigation revealed, were stolen by Jordanian
officers of the General Intelligence Department. Aljazeera
Daesh prepares to
evacuate Syria-Lebanon border
Syrian army and
Hezbollah prepared on Monday to transport Daesh fighters from their enclave on
the border with Lebanon to eastern Syria after a week-long offensive against
the jihadist group.It will end any militant presence on the border, an
important goal for Lebanon and the Shia Hezbollah group, and is the first time
Daesh has publicly agreed to evacuate territory under force.Daesh agreed a
ceasefire on Sunday with the Lebanese army on one front and the Syrian army and
Hezbollah on the other after losing much of its mountainous enclave straddling
the border, paving the way for its evacuation.The militants will move out of
their positions to a point on the Syrian side of the border where they will
board vehicles along with their families to transport them to Albukamal in east
Syria, a Lebanese security source said. Syria’s state-run Ikhbariya news
channel reported on Monday that the group was burning its machinery and HQRS.A
witness in Syria at the position where buses are gathering to receive the Daesh
fighters said black smoke was visible in the hills and that Syrian army and
Hezbollah vehicles were present.The deal involved Daesh revealing the fate of 9
Lebanese soldiers it captured when it overran the town of Arsal in Lebanon in
2014. middleeastmonitor
Ceasefire halts
Syria-Lebanon border fight against Daesh
Calls for safe
passage of civilians trapped in Syria's Raqqa
Save Children has
called on all sides fighting against the ISIL group in the Syrian city of Raqqa
to do all they can to allow civilians to leave safely.The charity says between
18,000 and 25,000 people are left in the city, almost half of them children.It
is feared they could be used as human shields. aljazeera
Rohingya: 'Even a
baby was not spared by the army'
Myanmar army has
been accused of carrying out extrajudicial killings in the restive Rakhine
region, with residents and activists accusing soldiers of shooting
indiscriminately at unarmed Rohingya men, women and children and carrying out
arson attacks.Authorities in Myanmar say close to 100 people have been killed
since Friday when armed men, reportedly from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation
Army(ARSA), launched a pre-dawn raid on police outposts in the restive region. Army
has declared a war against "terrorism", encircling the townships of
Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung, home to around 800,000 people, and imposed
a curfew from 6pm to 6am.However, advocates for the Rohingya have given a much
higher death toll, telling Al Jazeera that at least 800 of Muslim minority,
including dozens of women and children, have been killed in the violence. Aziz
Khan, a Maungdaw resident, said the army stormed his village early on Friday
and began "firing indiscriminately at people's cars and homes.Ro Nay San
Lwin,Rohingya activist and blogger based in Europe, said anywhere between 5,000
- 10,000 people had been driven from their homes by recent offensive.Using a
network of activists on the ground to document the conflict, San Lwin said
mosques and madrasas had been burned to the ground, with thousands of Muslims
stranded without food and shelter. "My own uncles were forced to flee by
the government and the military," he said."There has been no help
from the government, instead people's homes have been destroyed and their goods
looted."Without food, shelter and protection, they don't know when we'll
be killed." aljazeera
Group voices
concern over Rakhine attacks
Taliban bomb attack
on Afghan forces kills 13
A Taliban suicide
bomber killed at least 13 persons and wounded several more in an attack on a convoy
of Afghan soldiers in southern Helmand province late Sunday, an official said.
It was the latest in a series of deadly blows to Afghanistan's beleaguered
security forces and yet again underlined spiralling insecurity in the war-torn
nation."A suicide bomber detonated an explosive-filled car as the Afghan
National Army convoy passed a small market in Nawa District of Helmand,"
Omar Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor, told AFP.A source working
at a nearby hospital told AFP on condition of anonymity that the bodies of 15
victims had been brought to the hospital. Another 19 injured were also
admitted."The majority of the dead belong to Afghan forces and most of the
wounded are civilians," the source said.The Taliban claimed responsibility
for the attack in a WhatsApp message sent to journalists. Casualties among
Afghan security forces soared by 35 percent in 2016, with 6,800 soldiers and
police killed, according to US watchdog SIGAR.Over 2,500 Afghan police and
troops were killed from Jan.1 to May 8.Analysts have warned that Trump's
commitment to sending thousands more American troops to Afghanistan - reversing
earlier pledges to pull out - could heighten the rebellion and lead to more
casualties. aljazeera
UN chief arrives
for first Israel-Palestine visit
UN
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Tel Aviv on Sunday for his talks
with Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Guterres was greeted by Israeli diplomats
at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion airport. He is scheduled to meet Israeli Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday and his Palestinian counterpart Rami
Hamdallah on Tuesday. His 3-day visit is also expected to include a trip to the
blockaded Gaza Strip, which has been suffering from an acute electricity crisis
caused by political fighting between West Bank-based Palestinian Authority and
Gaza-based Hamas movement. middleeastmonitor
Israel asks visiting
UN for new page in relations
Israeli leaders
meeting with visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres cited several
complaints about the world body, accusing it of failing to advance peace in the
region. “There is no question that we’ve had a troubled relationship with the
UN. I think it has an absurd obsession with Israel [and uses] flagrantly
discriminatory tactics,” PM Benjamin Netanyahu said, adding that he believed
Guterres wanted to mend the relationship.Anadolu
Israel continues to
raze Palestinian land in Salfit
Bulldozers operated
by Israeli forces have razed swathes of Palestinian land, including farms
planted with well-established olive trees, around the city of Salfit in the
occupied West Bank, Quds Press reported on Sunday. According to researcher
Khalid Maali, the land belonged to Islamic Awqaf authorities. The expert in
settlement issues explained that the Israeli bulldozers targeted land in the
area known locally as Khellat Al-Jamei. Part of this area has already been
developed by Israeli settlers to build a factory in the Ariel Industrial Zone,
part of the illegal Ariel settlement bloc.Israel claims that this area is state
land. Maali said that the Palestinian Ministry of Awqaf had tried several times
to restore it, but the Israelis rejected the requests and cracked down on
activities on the ground. He pointed out that the Palestinian residents of are
being targeted directly by the Israeli occupation forces and settlers, noting
that they do not have enough official and popular support to be able to defend
their land. middleeastmonitor
Tillerson keeps
distance from Trump's race row stance
Secretary of State
Rex Tillerson defended American values on Sunday after a UN panel criticized
the official response to racist violence -- but conspicuously declined to speak
for President Donald Trump.Trump triggered outrage earlier this month when he
suggested both sides were at fault after unrest in Charlottesville, Virginia,
in which a woman was killed when a white supremacist drove his car into a group
of counter-protesters.Trump's response was celebrated in white nationalist
circles but drew harsh criticism from around the world and across the US
political spectrum, including a particularly sharp rebuke on Sunday from former
vice president Joe Biden, who said Trump's "willingness to divide this
nation knows no bounds."World Bulletin
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