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European Parliament cmt condemns killing of Palestinians by Israeli troops

Pier Antonio Panzeri, Chair of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Human Rights, has condemned the killing of nearly 60 Palestinians by Israeli troops at the Gaza Strip on Monday.

“We cannot remain silent in the face of what happened on Monday: a number of Palestinians killed and injured, amongst them several children, during the mass demonstration near the Gaza fence. Nothing can ever justify the use of military force against civilians who exercise their legitimate rights to protest peacefully,” he said in a statement Wednesday.

58 dead in Gaza protests as Israel fetes US Embassy move

Israeli police officers and Palestinian protesters crashed violently in front of the Qalandya checkpoint near Jerusalem at 4:00 p.m. Monday (local time). It was during middle of the official opening ceremony of the US embassy in Israel’s move to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. On the day, some 40,000 Palestinian residents participated in the protest at the Gaza Strip and the west bank of the Jordan river.

Hundreds of Palestinian residents gathered to protest at the Qalandya checkpoint near Jerusalem. Most were in their teens or twenties in masks. Children a little over 10 were also among the protestors but it did not stop Israel from throwing tear-gas and shooting baton rounds.

The crash in the Gaza Strip was even more tragic. Jerusalem Post, a local newspaper, reported that at least 58 were dead and 2,771 were injured in the area alone.

Grecia : Trei spanioli și doi danezi, salvatori pe mare, acuzaţi de trafic de migranţi au fost puși în libertate

Tribunalul din Mytilene, principalul oraş din insula greacă Lesbos, i-a pus luni în libertate pe cei trei spanioli şi doi danezi acuzaţi că au contribuit la intrarea ilegală de migranţi în această insulă din Marea Egee, unde ei participau la acţiuni de salvare pe mare în 2016, informează AFP, potrivit agerpres.

Judecătorul s-a opus rechizitoriului procurorului, care ceruse un verdict de culpă pentru cei cinci.

‘S-a făcut dreptate’, este ‘o mare victorie pentru ajutorul umanitar’, a comentat într-o postare pe contul său de Twitter organizaţia non-guvernamentală Prome-AID, din care fac parte cei trei spanioli, pompieri din Sevilla, care au beneficiat de o amplă campanie de susţinere în Spania şi din partea organizaţiilor umanitare.

Germany, France, UK pledge to continue nuclear agreement with Iran

Germany, France, and the United Kingdom on Monday said they would honor a nuclear deal signed between Iran and world powers amid an ultimatum by the United States about a cancellation of the pact.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was signed between Iran, the US, the United Kingdom, Germany, China, Russia, and France in 2015.

Iran signed the deal promising to halt its nuclear program in return for the lifting of international sanctions.

Trump to announce decision on Iran nuclear deal

US president Donald Trump will announce a decision about the future of an international nuclear agreement with Iran on Tuesday.

Here are four possible avenues Trump could take on the fate of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or JCPOA, under which Iran accepted restraints on its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of UN, European and US sanctions.

EU Holds Brussels Conference on Syria, 85 States and NGOs Attend

Egypt will attend a second international conference organised by the European Union and the United Nations on “supporting the future of Syria and the region,” which is scheduled to take place in Brussels from 24-25 April.

The conference aims to discuss humanitarian aid to the Syrians affected by the civil war that is now in its eighth year. It also further aims to open discussions among members of the international community over the Syrian conflict to create new pledges, as well as to support the resilience of refugee-hosting countries.

EU, UN seeks aid boost for Syria at major conference

The EU and UN on Tuesday begin a two-day conference to drum up fresh aid pledges for wartorn Syria and reinvigorate the faltering Geneva peace process as the conflict enters its eighth year.

Donor countries, aid organisations and UN agencies will gather in Brussels for the seventh annual conference on Syria’s future as international inspectors probe a suspected gas attack in the town of Douma, highlighting the brutal nature of the war.

Abadi vows to defend Iraq from cross-border attacks

Iraqi armed forces will prevent Kurdish militants based in northern Iraq from staging cross-border attacks against Turkey, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi said on Tuesday.

Abadi’s pledge, made during a phone call with Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim, came a day after Ankara threatened to intervene directly if the Iraqi operation against the militants based in the Sinjar region failed.

Abadi said that he has ordered the military to take full control of the country’s borders.

Iraqi PM: If Syrian Kurds change map, region will turn to bloodshed

If Syria were to collapse, the entire region would be under threat, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi warned on Thursday.

“We have a territory which is feeling very much threatened, controlled by the Syrian Kurds. If Syria disintegrates, God forbid, the whole area will be under threat,” Abadi said in an interview with the American weekly news magazine, Time.

Kurds in Syrian Kurdistan (Rojava) currently control large swaths of territory which they’ve liberated from the Islamic State (IS) over the past few years. Its troops, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), spearheaded by the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), are supported by the US and the Global Coalition against IS.