TURKEY ENDS STATE OF EMERGENCY(VIDEO)

Thursday, 19 July 2018 19:29

 

The Turkish government has ended a nationwide state of emergency after two years of a failed coup attempt

 

The BBC quoted state media recalling that under the state of emergency, tens of thousands of people were arrested or dismissed from their jobs.

 

However; the government decided against extending the emergency after seven three-month renewals.

 

The decision comes weeks after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan won re-election.

 

Opposition candidates had during the campaign, said that the first thing they would do if they won would be to end the state of emergency.

 

It may interest you to note that the emergency decree led to the removal of more than one hundred and seven thousand people from public sector jobs in Turkey.

 

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The United States Government under President Donald Trump is working hard to make sure that Russia is unable to meddle in US elections.

 

So says White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, insisting that the Trump Administration believes Russia still poses a threat to the US.

 

The Trump Administration has been trying to douse tension sparked by President Trump’s comments that appeared to side with Russia during his summit with President Valdmir Putin in Finland on Monday.

 

Sanders however noted that the President had said "no" to more questions about whether Russia was still targeting American elections.

 

But Trump’s remarks appeared in conflict with US intelligence on claims of Russian interference in US elections.

 

The President has since admitted that he misspoke and criticised those who are condemning his meeting with Russia's President, Vladmir Putin.

 

Trump took to twitter to condemn his critics for suffering from what he called "Trump Derangement Syndrome".

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President Muhammadu Buhari has returned to Abuja after spending three days on an official visit to the Netherlands following an invitation from the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

 

Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, confirmed the return of President Buhari in a text and pictures shared on his Facebook account.

 

Adesina also noted that President Buhari held a meeting with members of staff at the Nigerian Embassy in the Netherlands before departing on his return trip to Abuja.

 

The meeting was also attended by family members of the Nigerian embassy officials, and President Buhari used the occasion to thank them for being worthy ambassadors of the country.

 

Before then, President BuharI had participated in the commemoration of the twentieth anniversary of the Rome Statute which established the International Criminal Court.

 

He used his presentation to canvass support for the strengthening of the jurisdiction of the ICC to also cover illicit financial flows and corruption by state actors.

 

The Nigerian Leader also assured the international community that the conduct of the 2019 general elections under his watch would be free, fair and peaceful.

 

He promised to ensure that the post-election violence that greeted the 2011 general elections, where scores of people lost their life, particularly in the northern parts of Nigeria, would not be repeated.

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The Presidents of the United States and Russia are attending a summit today in Finland, but expectations are low on the possible outcomes.

 

President Donald Trump has been on a tour of Europe since last week, and today's meeting with President Vladmir Putin will mark an end to what the Western media described as a tumultuous tour in which the US leader criticised his allies.

 

Hours to the opening of the summit in the Finnish capital, Helsinki, President Trump said he had low expectations, but did not completely rule out the prospects of something good at the end.

 

The meeting has no set agenda, but Trump has said he intends to raise the issue of twelve Russians who were charged with hacking in the 2016 US elections when he meetings Putin.

 

The meeting will be the first-ever summit between Trump and Putin, although they have previously met on the side lines of multilateral talks.

 

There have been calls in the US for the President to cancel the meeting over the indictments of Russian military intelligence agents, although Russia denies the allegations, and said it is looking forward to the talks as a vehicle for improving relations.

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The United Nations has revealed horrific details of atrocities committed on both sides in the five-year-old civil war in South Sudan.

 

The latest UN report contain details of gang rape, throats being slit and mass shootings in Unity state in particular, with one woman recounting how she lost everything and would have preferred she was killed.

 

The revelation comes as South Sudanese leaders signed a ceasefire deal last month to end the civil war, which has claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people and forced millions of people to flee into refugee camps in neighbouring countries.

 

South Sudan became an independent country and admitted into the United Nations in 2011, following a breakaway from Sudan through a successful referendum.

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More deaths have been reported in the record flood and landslides disaster from torrential rainfall in Japan, with the official figure now put at one hundred and eighty.

 

At least seventy people are still missing, while more than eight million people have been ordered to evacuate their homes, as the rainfall persisted.

 

Reports say some two hundred and seventy thousand households across Japan have had their water supplies cut, and thousands of other homes are without electricity.

 

Reuters news agency reports that the hardest hit areas include the Okayama, Hiroshima and Yamaguchi prefectures, with pictures showing extensive damage especially in Okayama.

 

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Flooding and landslides triggered by record rainfall has claimed the lives of at least one hundred people in Japan.

 

Reports say more than fifty others are believed to be missing, following the natural disaster in parts of western Japan.

 

A government spokesman said the affected regions have received three times the usual rainfall for the whole of July.

 

Meanwhile; two million people have been ordered to evacuate as rivers burst their banks, while rescuers have resumed their search for survivors or the bodies of those killed.

 

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe disclosed yesterday that rescuers were working against time, as there were still many people missing and others in need of help.

 

 

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Authorities in Turkey have ordered the dismissal of more than eighteen thousand, five hundred state employees, including police officers, soldiers and academics.

 

An Official Gazette cited by reporters indicates that those sacked had links to terror organisations that act against national security, and the developments comes ahead of anticipated end of two years of emergency rule.

 

Turkey has been in a state of emergency since the July 2016 attempted overthrow of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan but the European Union and critics have repeatedly called on Ankara to end it.

 

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Isaiah Gogo who is a resident of Port Harcourt has been remanded in prison custody for alleged assault and rape of a speech-impaired girl around Diobu area of Port Harcourt.

 

Twenty-five-year-old GOGO was arraigned before the Port Harcourt Chief Magistrate’s Court on a two-count charge over the alleged incident on 24th June, which involves a young girl who attends the same church with him.

 

However; the defence lawyer informed the court that the church where the accused and the allegedly assaulted girl worship has already intervened in a bid to settle the matter.

 

Following the development; Chief Magistrate F. N. Amanze ordered the remand of the suspect and referred his matter to the Director of Public Prosecution for advice.

 

Our correspondent Victor Ezeama reports that the International Federation of Women Lawyers, FIDA, is involved in the matter.

 

The Rivers State Chairman of FIDA, Anthonia Osademe told our correspondent outside the courtroom that the rate of sexual abuse of young girls in the state was becoming alarming.

 

Osademe therefore urged victims of abuse and concerned members of the public to speak out on against such actions.

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Finance and Logistics Chief of Islamic State, ISIS, Abu Obaida has been killed in a joint Peshmerga and US-led coalition raid.

 

The Head of Peshmerga forces in Makhmour, Sirwan Barzani disclosed this to the media.

 

Barzani said the coalition forces killed two more ISIS members around Mount Qarachogh.

 

Peshmerga forces carried out the raids in coordination with US-led coalition warplanes to trace the whereabouts of ISIS remnants around Mount Qarachogh.

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