EU president: Refugee crisis is start of real exodus
Donald Tusk warns crisis will escalate as wars in Syria and Iraq continue, and calls on EU states to be "pragmatic".
08 Sep 2015 08:53 GMT
EU President Donald Tusk has warned that the refugee crisis affecting Europe was part of an "exodus" from war-torn countries that could last years.
Speaking to the Bruegel Institute think-tank in Brussels on Monday, Tusk said the current movement of people mainly from the Middle East would be a "problem for many years to come".
"The present wave of migration is not a one-time incident but the beginning of a real exodus," Tusk said.
European leaders are scrambling for solutions as bloody conflicts in mainly Syria and Iraq send hundreds of thousands of refugees on dangerous voyages through the Balkans and across the Mediterranean to the 28-nation EU.
"Let us have no illusions that we have a silver bullet to reverse the situation," he said.
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Turkey, PKK carry out retaliatory attacks
Reports from state-run media say jets have carried out airstrikes against Kurdish rebels in Turkey and northern Iraq, killing as many as 40 militants. Suspected PKK attack on police bus kills 10 officers.
Dozens of Turkish warplanes struck militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) targets in northern Iraq overnight Tuesday, killing scores of fighters.
Meanwhile, a bomb attack on a minibus in the eastern province of Igdir near the border with Azerbaijan has killed as many as 10 police officers, private broadcaster NTV reported.
The overnight air raids came after at least 16 Turkish soldiers were killed in the Kurdish-dominated southeast of the country on Sunday in an attack blamed on the PKK. Some 35 F-16 jets and 18 F-4 phantoms took part in the heavy raids on a score of PKK targets, according to the state-run Anadolu news agency.
Meet the man risking his life to film IS-controlled Raqqa
When the Islamic State group (IS) took over the Syrian city of Raqqa in 2013, Abou al-Cham did not flee. He decided to stay and risk his life by documenting how life changed for his friends and neighbours as the jihadists transformed their city into the so-called caliphate’s capital. In the years since, he has shared many photos on social media showing what he’s witnessed: children carrying Kalashnikovs, open-air prisons constructed by the IS and units of the religious police made up entirely of women. Citizen journalist Abou al-Cham told us his story.
He immediately started thinking about recording what it would be like for residents to live under control of the jihadists. Today, he regularly posts photos and videos of the city and what is going on there to his Facebook page.
He immediately started thinking about recording what it would be like for residents to live under control of the jihadists. Today, he regularly posts photos and videos of the city and what is going on there to his Facebook page.
"I know I’m risking everything— I could face the death penalty for spying"
ICC demands SA explain al-Bashir exit
The ICC wants an explanation, by no later than October 5, as to why the government did not arrest al-Bashir when he visited the country.
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has given South Africa until October 5 to explain why it did not arrest Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir.
The ICC had warned South Africa of the repercussions of allowing al-Bashir into the country way before he controversially landed in South Africa in June this year.
In an order made by the court last Friday, it emerged that the registrar of the ICC met with the South African embassy and reminded it of the country’s obligation to the Rome Statute.
The order was posted on the ICC website. The full post can be read here.
Japan's PM Abe unchallenged for party top post, gets another three-year term
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe won a rare second consecutive term on Tuesday, after his only potential rival for the post of ruling party chief failed to gain enough sponsors to register for the race.
Abe, who took office in December 2012, was the only candidate to register for a ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership election, meaning he gets another three-year term as party chief and hence, premier, becoming the first Japanese leader to do so in more than a decade.
Abe's policy team has pledged to refocus on the faltering economy after spending political capital this past year pushing unpopular legislation, expected to pass this month, that could let Japanese troops fight overseas for the first time since World War Two.
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