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Syrian Kurds join hands with Syrian Govt to stop Turkey’s invasion

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The Syrian Kurds, who recently suffered serious attacks from Turkey, has joined their hands with the Syrian government, which was not in a good relation with them during the years of war, to fight Istanbul, which lately launched a deadly offence against the Kurds in the northern region of the embattled country in the pretext of creating a Safe Zone for the Syrian refugees, who fled their country during the years of war.

Political observers see the development as positive. They say that it would give a huge impetus to the peace building process launched in the war-affected country of Syria.

The Syrian Kurds recently alleged that the US, which was hugely supported by them during its war against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, betrayed them.

The US pulled back its forces from Syria just before Turkey launched an offensive along the Syrian northern border region.

The US and the west are definitely unhappy with Turkey’s action. The superpowers have threatened Turkey with economic sanction.

But, the superpowers have so far done nothing concrete to stop Turkey from going ahead with its war plans.

A Kurdish leader says that his community’s decision to join hands with the Syrian government is an inevitable move. He adds if he is asked to choose between a compromise and a genocide he would choose the latter for the good of his people.


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The no-deal Brexit bill will ‘will clear Lords’

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The bill will complete its passage through the Lords on Friday, said the government regarding a bill, which is designed to stop a no-deal Brexit.

Before being passed as law, the bill will return to the Commons on Monday for considering any amendments.

On Wednesday, the proposed legislation was passed by MPs, following Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s defeat.

The bill is designed to stop UK falling out of the European Union in a situation where Boris Johnson does not get a Brexit deal or MPs do not back leaving without an agreement in place.

There were claims that the pro-Brexit peers could intentionally hold up the bill so it could not get royal assent before Parliament is prorogued next week.

But, after meeting with Labour, the Conservative chief whip in the Lords announced a breakthrough in the early hours.

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Greenland is not for sale !! Trump cancels Denmark visit

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The US president Donald Trump has recently cancelled his visit to Denmark as Mette Frederiksen, the president of Denmark said Greenland was not for sale to the US.

The country is rich in its natural resources, like coal and uranium and Trump had an interest in buying Greenland.

Trump’s visit has been scheduled on on 2 September, after being invited by Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II.

He was expected to attend a series of bilateral meetings and meet with business leaders, and Ms. Frederiksen had underscored the importance of the session, calling the United States “Denmark’s most important and strongest ally in NATO.”

After this Trump has shown his interest in buying Greenland, which is an autonomous Danish territory.

Expressing his interest in buying Greenland, Trump said on Sunday, “Well, a lot of things can be done. Essentially, it’s a large real estate deal.”

In his Twitter, president Trump wrote that as Denmark’s prime minister Mette Frederiksen, “would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland,” they would meet “another time.”

The cancellation of Trump’s visit to Denmark has been officially confirmed by a White House spokesman.

The Danish Broadcasting Corporation, DR, reported that the Danish royal house also confirmed it had been informed of the cancellation.

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EU to ready short Brexit delay, if May wins parliament over

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The EU officials meet in Brussels for offering Theresa May a delay for Brexit beyond March 29. Reports says that a condition was put forward that she can finally win over her many opponents in parliament next week.

The European Council president Donald Tusk had delivered a statement on Brexit ahead of the EU summit in Brussels, reports reuters. Theresa May could not unite her divided cabinet, parliament or nation behind her exit plan, since around three years after Britons narrowly voted in a referendum to leave the EU.

May had asked EU to postpone Brexit until June 30, since she needed time to secure a deal in parliament and avoid an abrupt departure next week that could spell economic chaos.

In a letter inviting all 28 EU national leaders to Brussels talks, the summit chairman Donald Tusk said, “We could consider a short extension conditional on a positive vote on the Withdrawal Agreement in the House of Commons”.

It is expected that any delay must be approved by all the other 27 national EU leaders, increasingly exasperated with Britain’s inability to find a way of a domestic political deadlock that is weighing heavily on the whole bloc.

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Trump bonds with Brazil’s Bolsonaro during White House visit

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The US President Donald Trump hosted Jair Bolsonaro, the Brazilian president, at the White House on Tuesday. Trump had pledged to give more U.S. support to Brazil’s global ambitions.

Trump said in a joint news conference in the White House Rose Garden that he told Bolsonaro he would designate Brazil a major non-NATO ally and possibly go further by supporting a campaign to make Brazil “maybe a NATO ally”.

Bolsonaro said, “Brazil and the United States are tied by the guarantee of liberty, respect for the traditional family, the fear of God our creator, against gender identity, political correctness and fake news”.

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Australian government loses bill blocking ill asylum seekers

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The Australian government lost major votes on a bill for evacuating sick refugees held in offshore facilities, to be transferred to Australia for medical treatment. For over a decade, this is the first time a government has lost vote on its own legislation in the lower house.

The move is a push forward for PM Scott Morrison’s minority government’s immigration policy, which is highly controversial. Australia has sent asylum seekers arriving by boat to detention centres on Nauru and Papua New Guinea, since 2013. Doctors have been warned regarding the insufficiency of medical facilities on the islands, while the UN has previously described the camp conditions as “inhumane”.

“There is no form of this bill that does not weaken our border protection.” said Mr Morrison. He also added that it could help criminals and terrorists enter the country.

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Relation between France and Italy hit new low

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The relation between France and Italy has moved from bad to worse as the Italian Deputy Prime Minister, Luigi Di Maio, has met the representatives of yellow-vest movement.

France, earlier, warned Italy not to interfere in its internal affairs. The warning was made when the Italian leaders started speaking in favour of the ongoing Yellow-vest moment, which France considers as a serious threat to its political stability.

It was the induction of an eurosceptic government in Italy that made the first blow to the relation between Paris and Rome.

Since then, the relation between these two founding members of the European Union has been steadily worsening.

In the recent past, France and Italy found over a range of issue, primarily over the issue of immigration.

This is the first time in the modern history that France and Italy have come out strongly against each other.

The development is not favourable to the existence of European Union. Germany, the UK, France and Italy are the four largest markets in the biggest economic union of the world. This four will soon be reduced to three as the UK will leave the market within months. The union is less likely to survive another big exist.

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Russia, the US gear up for another nuclear race

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Hours after the United States suspended its commitment towards the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty –created during the Cold War era to mark an end to the disastrous nuclear race between the Soviet Union and the West, Russia has walked out of the treaty, widely opening an dangerous opportunity for the re-emergence of another nuclear race –probably as much disturbing as the one the liberal world’s architects managed to put to rest through the treaty several decades ago.

The treaty was originally signed in the year 1987 by Soviet Union Supremo Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan.

Actually, the withdrawal of the US from the Cold War-era treaty was due to a popular assumption that the treaty was meant to serve the interest of the then Soviet Union, not the United States.

Recently, the US found that Russia several times purposefully violated the treaty. At the time of the declaration of its withdrawal, the United States cited what they found to justify its action.

It is clear that Russia is very much worried about the move. The present action of Russia is just retaliatory in nature. From Russia President Vladimir Putin’s statement, it is evident that Russia is ready to relook the policy any time.

Will Russia get a chance to relook depends on how serious the US consider Moscow’s action. If the White House feels that Moscow’s retaliatory action is less worrisome, it will not react in the way Putin expects the US President Donald Trump will.

In reality, Russia’s walkout is less important from the point of view of a US which cares more about its interest and less about the interest of the liberal world, particularly the interest of its heartland (i.e Western Europe).

In that sense, the possibility of Russia being used as a trump card to bring the economically powerful Western Europe to its knees cannot be ruled out.

Will these developments encourage Germany and France to go ahead with their European army plan is the biggest question come out of these sensitive developments.

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