(SomaliNet) A United Nations (UN) Staff working for a peacekeeping mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia has been arrested by Eritrea on accusations that they tried to smuggle young people out of the country, the Eritrean governments website reported.
"Members of the United Nations Mission in Eritrea and Ethiopia (UNMEE) were apprehended yesterday by Eritrean security forces while illegally trying to move property and youths out of the country by hiding them in their vehicles," the official website for Eritrea's information ministry said in the report dated August 29, adding the incident happened the previous day.
The United Nations staff was accused of receiving money to sneak the people out. However, UNMEE officials were not readily available for comment.
Last year, Eritrea imposed harsh restrictions on UN peacekeepers, including a ban on helicopter flights.
So is this a bona fide arrest for a UN staffer diddling with the youts, or a set-up to keep the UNMEE from doing its job?
Meanwhile, UNMEE is in Eritrea to monitor a 1 000km border with Ethiopia and prevent a recurrence of a 1998-2000 war that killed some 70 000 people.
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Indian and Bangladeshi border guards have fired at each other for the third time in a month, officials in northeastern India said Friday. No injuries were reported. The 15 minutes of shooting came Thursday night, just hours after senior officials from both sides finished a four-day meeting in northeastern India in an attempt to defuse border tensions.
Small-scale gunfire exchanges, usually sparked by disputes over unmarked border areas, occasionally break out along the 4,000-kilometer (2,500-mile) India-Bangladesh border. But even when there are injuries or even deaths, the clashes seldom lead to serious diplomatic problems.
"There was a 15-minute exchange of fire between the Indian Border Security Force and the Bangladesh Rifles in Labourputa village Thursday evening, but there were no casualties," said Gautam Ganguly, a senior government administrator in northeastern India's Assam state.
An Indian Border Security Force or BSF commander in the area said his men opened fire after a group of Bangladeshi farmers sneaked in and tried to harvest a field, ignoring soldiers' warnings. Bangladeshi troops returned fire, the commander said, speaking on condition of anonymity due to protocol.
Syed Rezaul Gani, a spokesman for the Bangladesh Rifles, confirmed the incident and a BDR commander on the border, also speaking on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to talk to the media, said the Indian firing was unprovoked. "The Indians opened fire without provocation. We returned the fire," he said.
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I think if there were some serious casualties, the incidents would slow down a bit. If India were to kill a hundred or so, the next Bangladeshi group won't be so eager to try to move the border markers. The only solution to the India-Bangladesh problem will be the anhialation and absorbtion of Bangladesh - IF India ever gets serious.
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Vicente Fox was forced to forego the last state-of-the-nation address of his presidency Friday after leftist lawmakers stormed the stage of Congress to protest disputed July 2 elections.
It was the first time in modern Mexican history a president hasn't given the annual address to Congress. Instead, Fox handed in a written copy of his report, and his office said he would address the nation in a televised speech later Friday.
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They want to make a political cesspool there as well. They learn from US - from the Democrats here.
Other countries follow our "Standards" wether we like it or not. This is why you need an educated populace to lead appropriately which WE are lacking. Or at least look like we are lacking.
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dead Obrador fodder peasants in the streets of Mexico City within a month. AlGore's mexican clone won't give up. I see an accident in his future or civil war
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Him inna wheelchair with a C-bag. Anyone see a standup shot?
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Senario: Civil War, violence, leftest takover, nationalization of industry and businesses, anti-American rhetoric, Russian military contracts, recall of diplomats, pro-leftest reprisals, political dissedents flee across US border......
ALL are declared citizens.
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We tolerated Castro because we shared no border with Cuba. No US government will tolerate a hostile communist dictatorship in Mexico. The fence will be built and, if necessary, the Marines will return to the Halls of Montezuma.
HAVANA (AP) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro, looking notably better than he did when last seen almost three weeks ago, happily greeted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a brief visit aired on state television Friday. "Brother!" the 80-year-old Castro said from his sickbed, his face lighting up as Chavez entered the room Friday where he was recuperating and gave him a warm embrace.
"Gentleman of the heroic resistance!" the Venezuelan president responded with a smile to his good friend and ally.
"What joy!" Castro said after sitting up on his bed. "A million thanks!"
Chavez has now visited Castro three times since the Cuban leader announced on July 31 that he had undergone intestinal surgery and was provisionally ceding power to his brother, Raul Castro, the defense minister. The specifics of Castro's ailment and the nature of his surgery have been treated as a state secret.
Dressed in red pajamas, Castro appeared much more animated and alert on the video than in those made when Chavez made his first post-surgery visit to the Cuban leader on Aug. 13, his 80th birthday.
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Good, I wanta see another half gainer on the concrete. One-point nose landing
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the advances in animatronics reach Cuba - film at eleven
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Is it too much to hope that he'll suffer the same fate as Princess Lucky's father in Monty Python & the Holy Grail
FATHER: But I don't want to think I've not lost a son, so much as... gained a daughter! For, since the tragic death of her father--
GUEST #2: He's not quite dead!
FATHER: Since the near fatal wounding of her father--
GUEST #2: He's getting better!
FATHER: For, since her own father, who, when he seemed about to recover, suddenly felt the icy hand of death upon him.
BRIDE'S FATHER: Uugh!
GUEST #2: Oh, he's died!
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Hey, where'd the vulture go? You get back here, bird!
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May they burn forever in the Hell they (and I) don't believe in for this. Typical, though. As I think about it I'm surprised it took them so long to begin erasing their past.
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covering ancestor's crimes in an old practice. Witness the Kennedy family
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Given Belgium's record of horrible brutality in their African colonies I find myself unsurprised by this. Also their insistence on being able to apply "International Law" to anybody they like is nothing more than an Orwellian attempt to hide their own past.
Europe can burn for all I care. If the US needs to take out their nuclear weapons at some point in the future to keep them out of the hands of muslims or a resurgent fascist state then fine. But I don't want to see American soldiers die to save Europe ever again.
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Twenty-nine people were killed on Friday when an Iranian airliner caught fire after landing in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Iran's civil aviation chief said, lowering earlier reports of up to 80 dead. Talking to state television, the Civil Aviation Organization's Nurollah Rezai Niaraki said 29 bodies had been recovered from the plane, 43 people were injured and the rest of the 148 people on board survived unhurt.
He added that some of those injured had been treated as out-patients at Mashhad hospitals. State television had earlier said the death toll on the flight to Mashhad from the southern port city of Bandar Abbas was at least 80. Niaraki also said that since the flight crew survived the crash, a better understanding on the cause of the accident will surface.
Previously state media reported that the Russian-made Tupolev 154, on an internal flight from the southern port of Bandar Abbas, skidded off the runway and crashed into the nearby barriers, leaving gaping holes in the fuselage. The incident was the latest tragedy to hit Iran's aviation industry, whose fleet is made up largely of Soviet or old Western planes owing to the US sanctions imposed after the Islamic revolution in 1979.
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Saw this on the Euronews TV channel in Belgium. The comment was that the Iranians had not been able to renew their fleet or tune up its planes and this was the fault of the americans who had sanctions on Iran. Question: what stops Iran from buying planes or parts from the europeans, russians and chinese?
We are bombarded by anti american propaganda in Europe. It is getting very strange around here.
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The incident was the latest tragedy to hit Iran's aviation industry, whose fleet is made up largely of Soviet or old Western planes owing to the US sanctions
As always, the unknowable and eternally mysterious enigmatic riddle of Cause & Effect is once again inverted with typical Islamic dexterity.
Iran's aircraft are not breaking down and augering in due to American sanctions.
Iran is unable to acquire spare parts because THEY ARE HOSTILE RAVENING PSYCHOTIC GENOCIDAL FULL-BLOWN DROOLING LUNATIC FLAMING ASSHOLES!
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
Indian and Bangladeshi border guards have fired at each other for the third time in a month, officials in northeastern India said Friday. No injuries were reported. The 15 minutes of shooting came Thursday night, just hours after senior officials from both sides finished a four-day meeting in northeastern India in an attempt to defuse border tensions.
HAVANA (AP) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro, looking notably better than he did when last seen almost three weeks ago, happily greeted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during a brief visit aired on state television Friday. "Brother!" the 80-year-old Castro said from his sickbed, his face lighting up as Chavez entered the room Friday where he was recuperating and gave him a warm embrace.
Twenty-nine people were killed on Friday when an Iranian airliner caught fire after landing in the northeastern city of Mashhad, Iran's civil aviation chief said, lowering earlier reports of up to 80 dead. Talking to state television, the Civil Aviation Organization's Nurollah Rezai Niaraki said 29 bodies had been recovered from the plane, 43 people were injured and the rest of the 148 people on board survived unhurt.
