Three soldiers were killed on May 8 in an explosion in the Nusaybin district of the southeastern province of Mardin, where operations by security forces are being carried out against outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants. Source: Hurriyet Daily
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Twelve PKK terrorists have been killed in counter-terrorism operations in Turkey’s southeast. 8 terrorists were killed in Nusaybin, 2 in the neighboring Sirnak province, and 2 in the Tunceli province. Source: AA
Reporting incidents from the previous day, the Turkish General Staff said four terrorists were killed in Nusaybin, Mardin province, and four across neighboring Sirnak province. Source: AA
Three rocket projectiles, fired from Syria, killed one and injured 10 others in Turkey’s southeastern border province of Kilis on Sunday evening, said Turkish officials. Source: AA
At least 20 PKK terrorists were killed in four separate counter-terrorism operations in four southeastern Turkish provinces Sunday, the military announced on its official website Monday. Source: AA
30 Sinai Province militants were killed in airstrikes conducted by the Egyptian Air Force on Monday south of Sheikh Zuweid city. Source: Daily News Egypt
Around 30 Daesh militants were killed in a coalition airstrike in the early hours of Monday in Syria, near Turkey’s southern Kilis province. Source: AA
A special police unit will be disbanded after investigators found right-wing extremist messages shared by some of its members. Police from the central German city of Frankfurt am Main have decided to disband the city’s Special Task Force (SEK) following the discovery of far-right extremist messages in group chats, a state official said on Thursday. Source Deitsche Welle
French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the end of Operation Barkhane, an offensive against Islamist insurgents in West Africa’s Sahel region that was launched in 2013. French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said he was ending France’s eight-year operation in the Sahel region of Africa, particularly in Mali, where the country’s military has been waging a battle against Islamist insurgents. Source Deutsche Welle
A pro-Islamic Party Nyanset (Nuance Party) is targeting Sweden’s Turkish and Muslim communities in a bid to reach the election threshold of 4% and enter parliament in the 2022 elections.
Party leader Mikail Yüksel announced to his 200 followers on TikTok on Friday that the party’s posters have even been put up in Turkey. Founded in 2019, the party could potentially gain a large following in Sweden, which is home to an estimated 810,000 Muslims, or around 8.1% of the population. Of these, around 50,000 people have Turkish origins. Source Euractiv
At just over 400,000 last year, Italy’s births were hugely outnumbered by deaths, leading the population to drop by 384,000: equivalent to the city of Florence being wiped off the map. Source BBC
Sudan and Egypt agreed on Wednesday to coordinate efforts to push Ethiopia to negotiate “seriously” on an agreement on filling and operating a giant dam it is building on the Blue Nile, a joint statement said. Source Reuters
Load-shedding will be increased to stage 4 from 2pm until 10pm on Wednesday. “This is to ration the remaining emergency generation reserves, which have been depleted. These reserves are required to respond to further emergencies to maintain the stability of the national grid,” said Eskom. Source Times Live
Poland has lashed out at Belarus after the country established a ‘Day of People’s Unity’ holiday on 17 September – the day that the Soviet Union invaded Poland and Ukraine during WW1.
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union had signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact on 23 August 1939, under which they agreed to carve up Poland between themselves. Hitler’s armies invaded Poland on September 1, while the USSR invaded on 17 September. Source Euronews
Ethiopia has stepped up army deployment near the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), setting off the alarm on tensions rising between the African state on the one hand and Egypt and Sudan on the other.
For its part, Cairo voiced deep rejection of any unilateral action undertaken by Addis Ababa before the signing of a comprehensive agreement on filling and operating the GERD. Source Asharaq Al-Awsat
A leading Taiwanese chip testing and packaging company said on Monday (Jun 7) that all its migrant employees have been suspended from working for around two weeks to contain a coronavirus outbreak. At least 206 employees, mostly migrant workers, at facilities run by King Yuan Electronics Company in northern Miaoli county have tested positive, according to the government. The cluster is the first major outbreak in Taiwan’s semiconductor industry, which is operating at full capacity to meet a worldwide shortage. Source Channel news Asia
- Author Ed Husain visited places of worship across UK for Among the Mosques
- Would turn up unannounced to the largest weekly gathering, Friday prayers
- Spoke to taxi drivers, business owners, Imams and worshipers about religion
- Islam in Britain is dominated by ultra-orthodox sect promoted by the Deobandis
- Control over half of Britain’s mosques, and gave birth to Taliban in Afghanistan
- One person described ‘Bolton, Dewsbury and Blackburn’ as ‘different universe’
- Books for sale detail how women should be banned from leaving the house
- Mosque in Didsbury, in converted church, has a sign for the ‘Sharia Department’
- White men revealed ‘no-go areas’ in Blackburn where they would be ‘jumped’
- White woman in Bradford predicts it will become ‘an apartheid city’ in 30 years Source Daily Mail
A few hours after the fight at the impasse Magnésia, injuring four migrants, other clashes broke out. The police had to face hundreds of migrants, armed with sticks, stones, iron bars, around the port bypass, in the Dunes area and near the port. Seven police officers were injured. Source La Voix Du Nord
The European Commission is preparing a case to assert the primacy of EU courts over rulings from Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court. The issue relates to the buying of government bonds by the European Central Bank. Brussels is expected to launch an infringement procedure against Germany after a ruling by the country’s Federal Constitutional Court that is seen as incompatible with European Union law. Source Deutsche Welle
Europe has been “forged in the crises” and therefore must emerge strengthened from the pandemic, for example, by making permanent mechanisms such as the EU Recovery Fund or the Sure Fund, said Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco on Monday.
Visco also said the EU mechanisms are “common debt, well distinct” from the “previous debt of the single countries, which would remain national responsibility”, even if a part of this could enter into common management, “for example through an amortisation fund”. Source Euractiv
Testing work on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline to Germany will start next week, Alexander Drozdenko, governor of the Leningrad region where the pipeline starts, was cited as saying by the TASS news agency on Wednesday. Source Reuters
Russia has outmaneuvered Kiev by overcoming Western objections to its Nord Stream 2 pipeline, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said, warning that Moscow could cut his country off from energy supplies once it is complete.
The politician made the claims in an interview with Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, published on Monday. He claimed that the pipeline, which will link Siberian gas fields to consumers in Western Europe by means of a conduit under the Baltic Sea, was a “trump card” for Moscow. Now, he claimed, the Kremlin has a “royal flush” because it was supported by leaders in countries like Germany and France. Source RT
President Joe Biden on Friday laid out a $6 trillion budget proposal that would increase the national debt to a percentage of the economy higher than it was in World War II, creating an opening for Republicans to increase their attacks on his ambitious spending proposals as too expensive. source USA Today
An Italian bank has collapsed through exposure to Greensill Capital and GFG Alliance, as the shockwaves from the failure of the British finance company claimed another casualty.
Milan-based Aigis Banca, a specialist lender to small and medium-sized businesses, was ordered into liquidation by the Bank of Italy at the weekend, with larger peer Banca Ifis buying its assets and liabilities for the symbolic price of €1 ($1.60). Source Financial Review
The US has partly lifted sanctions on a controversial gas pipeline in a bid to mend relations with Germany and Russia. Source Euobserver
The Biden administration will waive sanctions on the company behind Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline to Europe and its chief executive, a source tells Reuters news agency. Source Aljazeera
Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on Wednesday that new European Union rules on public finances should offer incentives for member states to increase investments. Addressing the lower house of parliament, Draghi said EU talks on how to revise its Stability Pact ought to produce rules that allow countries to adopt more anti-cyclical policies, meaning they can spend more in bad economic times.Source Yahoo
Around 100 km of the subsea Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline from Russia to Germany are left to lay, Russia’s ambassador to Germany, Sergei Nechayev, said May 8. In an interview with German media outlet RND, Nechayev also said he was hopeful the pipeline would be completed before the upcoming German election on Sept. 26. Source S & P Global
Already rising ahead of the summer travel season, U.S. gasoline prices could soon approach $3 a gallon depending on how long a major pipeline remains out of commission after a ransomware attack. “AAA forecasts gas prices to climb this week in reaction to the shutdown,” the auto club said on Monday. Source CBS News
