Iran raises force to deploy in Arab states, say reports
Fighters to be drawn from local population where Iran is involved in conflict, says Revolutionary Guard Corps leader.
Iran has formed what it calls the Shia Liberation Army whose units will be deployed in Arab countries, according to reports.
Currently, Iran is involved in multiple conflicts where Shia and Sunni Muslims are locked in a power struggle, notably Syria and Yemen.
Mohammad Ali Al Falaki, who heads the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, said in an interview published on Friday by Al Mashriq news that Iran is fighting on three fronts: Iraq, Syria and Yemen.
Philippine communist rebels announce seven-day truce for peace talks
President Rodrigo Duterte frees Communist party’s top leaders before talks take place in Norway
Philippine communist guerrillas will observe a seven-day truce from Sunday to bolster upcoming peace talks hosted by Norway, the rebels said, urging the Manila government to also order a ceasefire.
The Communist party of the Philippines made the move following president Rodrigo Duterte’s decision to free its top leaders on Friday. They are set to fly to Oslo for negotiations aimed at ending one of Asia’s longest insurgencies.
“We hope that this ceasefire declaration will be reciprocated by the [government] as a show of all-out determination to move forward with peace negotiations,” the party said in a statement.Omran Daqneesh: Rescue worker who saved boy photographed in Aleppo warns 'massacres happening every day'
Russia denies responsibility for strike that destroyed five-year-old's home and killed eight people
The volunteer who rescued a five-year-old boy from the rubble of his family home in Aleppo has warned that similar tragedies “happen every day” in the divided Syrian city.
A photo of Omran Daqneesh sitting alone in the back of an ambulance, dazed and covered with dust and blood, has spread around the world as a symbol of the suffering endured by Syrian civilians.
Bibars Halabi said he and fellow volunteers with the Syrian Civil Defence group, known as the White Helmets, rushed to the destroyed apartment after receiving reports of an air strike on Wednesday night.
Students help migrants discover French culture, language
A group of students at a prestigious French university have launched an initiative to assist migrants' integration into French society, by enlisting volunteers to help them in their discovery of French language and culture. Over the past year, volunteers with the project have worked with 40 migrants who want to continue their studies in France.
The programme is called PEI, which stands for “le Projet Étudiant Invité” or, in English, the “Student Guest Project”. More than 100 professors and students from the École normale supérieure (ENS) have volunteered with the project since it was founded. The organisers say that this kind of strategy needs to be put into action across France to welcome new arrivals and help integrate them into society.
The founders of PEI noted that while the migrants who have recently arrived France hail from different countries and have very different personal experiences, the majority of them wish to further their education. Many of them were studying at universities in their home countries before they left. The ENS decided to help some of these new arrivals pursue their education by inviting them to be “student guests” at the prestigious university
South Sudan government recruited child soldiers, UN says
The document says a senior politician appointed by President Salva Kiir led the recruitment of an entire village of boys using intimidation.
JUBA, SOUTH SUDAN — South Sudan's government has recruited child soldiers in the past week to prepare for a renewed conflict, according to an internal United Nations document obtained by The Associated Press.
The document says a senior politician appointed by President Salva Kiir led the recruitment of an entire village of boys using intimidation. Some were as young as 12 years old. It was not clear how many children were involved.
Armed groups in South Sudan often coerce children to join their ranks by threatening to confiscate their family's cattle, a key source of wealth and status in this pastoral society.
THE NSA LEAK IS REAL, SNOWDEN DOCUMENTS CONFIRM
Sam Biddle
ON MONDAY, A HACKING group calling itself the “ShadowBrokers” announced an auction for what it claimed were “cyber weapons” made by the NSA. Based on never-before-published documents provided by the whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Intercept can confirm that the arsenal contains authentic NSA software, part of a powerful constellation of tools used to covertly infect computers worldwide.
The provenance of the code has been a matter of heated debate this week among cybersecurity experts, and while it remains unclear how the software leaked, one thing is now beyond speculation: The malware is covered with the NSA’s virtual fingerprints and clearly originates from the agency.
The evidence that ties the ShadowBrokers dump to the NSA comes in an agency manual for implanting malware, classified top secret, provided by Snowden, and not previously available to the public.
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