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The Olympic flame arrived in Tokyo on Friday, but with the public staying away at a low-key welcoming ceremony due to fears of coronavirus, the day after a "heartbreaking" announcement that spectators would be banned from most gaming events. On a rainy morning exactly two weeks before the inauguration of the biggest sporting…

Russian instructors sent to the Central African Republic carried out "indiscriminate killings", looting and occupied schools, according to an annual UN report, although Moscow claims they are unarmed and not involved in the fighting. The testimonies describe excessive force that corresponds to violations of international humanitarian law, said the report of UN experts recently submitted to the Security Council and seen by Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Monday. Such violations "by FACA soldiers and Russian instructors…

As many as 300 migrants may have died after a ship recently capsized off the coast of Yemen, highlighting the dangers of a long migration route from the Horn of Africa to the rich Gulf states in search of work, a UN official said on Thursday. UN resident and humanitarian coordinator David Gressly said the immigration crisis was increasing the pressure on an already serious humanitarian situation in Yemen. Gressly made his comments during a webinar sponsored by the National Council on US-Arab relations. It came just a…

The Berlin conference on Libya gave hope for stability in the war-torn country when countries pledged to withdraw all foreign fighters and mercenaries on Wednesday. Libyan Foreign Minister Najla al-Mangoush expressed hope that progress would finally be made with a key commitment from the first conference in January 2020 - to withdraw foreign fighters. "We are making progress on mercenaries, so you will hopefully know in the coming days that mercenaries from both sides will withdraw and I think it will…

American software pioneer John McAfee, 75, was found dead on Wednesday in a prison cell in Barcelona, Spain, according to McAfee's lawyers. Just hours earlier, a court in Spain had approved the extradition of McAfee to the U.S., where he was set to stand trial on federal tax-evasion charges. Authorities are investigating the cause of death. An eccentric and brash millionaire known widely for his eponymous antivirus software, McAfee sold his stake in the company in the mid-1990s and spent his life globe-trotting and…

Germany will try to arbitrate a permanent solution to the Libyan crisis, as the sides will gather in Berlin to figure out a way to ensure that the country holds general elections in December. Efforts to end a decade-long spiral of violence in Libya would bring the country's transitional government, as well as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, to Berlin for the personal UN-sponsored talks. In a telephone conversation with Libyan Foreign Minister Najla Mangoush just days before the meeting, Blinken stressed "the…

Arab states have called on the UN Security Council to hold a discussion on Ethiopia's controversial plan to fill a new hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile, said Arab League Secretary-General Aboul Gheit. Ethiopia attaches its hopes for economic development and power generation to the dam. Egypt trusts the river for as much as 90% of its fresh water and sees the dam as a potential existential threat. Sudan is concerned about the operation of its own Nile dams and water stations. The foreign ministers of the Arab League,…

"The power of my hands" brings together 16 artists, only women and only from Portuguese-speaking or English-speaking countries, which are almost never shown in France. An original exhibition in more ways than one at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Painting, embroidery, photography or ceramics, neither evoke everyday life or the woman's history, intimate or more political issues. Odile Burluraux is one of the exhibitors' curators. “One of the goals of the exhibition is also to bring out what has been hidden,…

The Saudi military coalition in Yemen said on Wednesday that it had established a presence on a strategic island at the entrance to the Red Sea to counter perceived threats to maritime trade from the Iran-adapted Houthi movement, according to a report on the mysterious base. of no nation. The statement was issued in response to a report by the Associated Press (AP) referring to Yemeni officials who said the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was behind an air base that has appeared on the island of Perim, also known as Mayun, in…

President Joe Biden on Saturday issued the document Armenian Americans have pursued for decades: a declaration that the Ottoman Empire’s slaughter of an estimated 1.5 million Armenian civilians was genocide.