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3, June 2016
Amnesty says EU-Turkey deal on refugees illegal 0
by soter • Europe, News, World
Amnesty International has strongly denounced a recently-signed agreement between the European Union and Turkey to curb the flow of asylum seekers to Europe. The UK-based rights group said in a 35-page briefing on Friday that the EU-Turkey deal is “illegal” and “reckless,” urging the 28-nation bloc to stop plans to return asylum seekers to Turkey. […]
3, June 2016
Cameroon League 1: The Battle for leadership 0
The battle for leadership will hit a higher gear this weekend as the championship enters the second and most decisive phase with matches counting for the 19th day of play scheduled to take place in stadiums across the country. Four teams, separated by barely three points are engaged in the contention for the league title […]
3, June 2016
Cameroon: Senators shower praises on defense and security forces 0
The world’s most barbaric terrorist group, Boko Haram, is losing steam after carrying out attacks on civilian populations and Defence and Security Forces for about two years. While opening the Second Ordinary Session of the Senate yesterday, June 2, 2016, Senate President, Marcel Niat Njifenji extended Senators’ “warmest and heartiest” congratulations to Cameroon’s Defence and […]
3, June 2016
Yaounde: CPDM taxis still in circulation 0
by soter • Breaking News, Cameroon, Headline News, News
In Yaounde, it is common to find township taxis circulating with shattered head lights, door handles fastened with ropes to enable them open or close, worn-out tyres, cracked windscreens, unstable seats and at times, too dirty with cockroaches running on passengers. This unkempt state of cabs in Yaounde has not only left passengers disappointed as […]
3, June 2016
Iran braces for a decisive and difficult confrontation with the US 0
by soter • Breaking News, Headline News, News, World
A senior military commander says Iran is ready for a “decisive and difficult confrontation” with the US after Hillary Clinton threatens Tehran with military action. Defining her hawkish foreign policy in a speech Thursday in San Diego, Clinton said the US could disarm Iran by military action if she became the president. “Although talk of […]
3, June 2016
In or Out: Cameron hits out at Brexiters 0
by soter • Breaking News, Europe, Headline News, News
British Prime Minister David Cameron has hit out at ‘Brexiters’ who grilled him during a live TV debate on the future of the United Kingdom in the European Union. The debate aired by Sky News shows Cameron criticizing UK’s possible exit from the EU as an act of “economic self-harm.” Audience in the debate, however, […]
3, June 2016
Francoise Hollande declares natural disaster in Paris 0
French President Francois Hollande has declared “natural disaster” in Paris amid torrential downpours which have caused River Seine in the capital to reach its highest level in three decades. Days of torrential rains raised the level of the River Seine in Paris to five meters above normal levels on Thursday, flooding the lower embankments and forcing the nearby Louvre […]
3, June 2016
Prime Minister Philemon Yang chairs national road board forum 0
The Prime Minister, Head of Government, Philemon Yang chaired the 20th meeting of the National Road Board that held recently in Yaounde. The meeting focused on the projects carried out in 2015, those of 2016 and mechanisms for financing road projects. During the session it was disclosed that the sum of 325 billion CFAF was […]
3, June 2016
Anti-Catholicism in our time: Myth or Reality 0
There is in our time a certain wave of anti-Catholicism that seeks to drown the Holy Roman Catholic Church in a sea of guilt for its past mistakes and moral failing. It does not seem to matter how often the Roman Catholic Church at all levels may show its repentance, there never seems to be […]
3, June 2016
Berlin says too early to discuss easing Russia sanctions 0
by soter • Europe, Europe, News, Politics
Germany says it is too early to discuss lifting the European Union’s economic sanctions against Russia over Moscow’s alleged interference in the Ukraine crisis. “I think the discussion about lifting of sanctions has come far too early. We are not anywhere close to having Minsk implemented,” said Christoph Heusgen, a foreign policy adviser to German […]