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Since the rebels took over the capital, the president has ruled from the southern port city of Aden. There has now been a serious explosion at the airport. At least twelve people were killed and numerous others injured in an alleged bomb attack in Yemen , a country with civil war . The news agencies dpa and AFP report with reference to emergency services and a high-ranking representative of the security forces. There is no official information on the number of injuries. According to initial information, a truck exploded at the entrance to the city's airport. Aden is the second largest city in Yemen. It is located in the southwest of the country and currently serves as the provisional seat of government since the Houthi rebels took the north, including the capital Sanaa. Almost three weeks ago , six people were killed in a bomb attack on the car convoy of Aden Governor Ahmed Lamlas. The governor survived the attack. Since 2015 there has been a war in Yemen between the troops of Pres...

During mass protests in the city of Omdurman, security forces again fired at demonstrators. The United Nations called on the military leadership to exercise restraint. In Sudan, after the military coup almost a week ago, hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest against the new rulers. They are calling for the restoration of the civilian-led government and a return to the "path of democracy". As in the previous days  , gunmen shot at the demonstrators. According to the National Medical Committee, at least two people were killed in the city of Omdurman. There were also major demonstrations in the capital region and the city of Bur Sudan on the Red Sea. In the capital, Khartoum, the military has demonstrated strength with a massive presence since the morning. Rescue workers blocked bridges that connect the capital with neighboring cities. They also set up checkpoints on main roads where pedestrians and drivers were randomly searched. The Internet and teleph...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson wants to suspend parts of the Brexit agreement again. France sees this as "not a good sign of Great Britain's credibility". In the dispute over fishing rights, French President Emmanuel Macron criticized Great Britain. "If you spend years negotiating a contract and then a few months later doing the opposite of what was decided in the areas that are the least suitable for you, that is not a good sign of credibility," Macron told Financial Times. France and Great Britain have been fighting over fishing rights since Great Britain left the EU. They accuse each other of violating the Brexit trade agreement concluded late last year on fishing licenses in British waters. France accuses the UK of not granting enough fishing permits to French vessels. As of Tuesday, France wants to tighten controls on British fishing trawlers and impose a ban on British ships to unload seafood in French ports. As a result, Great Britain threatened ret...

The US government wants to stop Iran from delivering combat drones to rebel groups around the world. It blacklisted two companies and two generals. The US has imposed sanctions on several companies and people in Iran. The US government accuses them of promoting the development of combat drones to attack targets of the Americans and their allies. As the US Treasury announced on Friday, the sanctions are directed against two generals of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, an elite unit of the Iranian army classified as a terrorist organization in the USA: Brigadier General Saeed Aghajani heads the drone command of the Revolutionary Guards, Brigadier General Abdullah Mehrabi is head of their research organization . You will be frozen any wealth in the US and denied access to the US financial market. The two companies Kimia Part Siwan and Oje Parwas Mado Nafar, which are said to have produced drone parts for the Revolutionary Guard, are also on the black list. The US accuses Iran of making c...

Papal audience, G20 meeting, climate summit: Joe Biden's second big trip takes him back to Europe. But this time the US president brings his own problems with him. In the summer, when Joe Biden made the rounds in Europe, a lot was even easier: "America is back", so don't worry, we'll get it done - that's how the halfway new US president was able to feel on his first trip abroad smile through the program, it all looked good in the pictures, and he said it often enough. At the time, the aim was to clean up the fidelity damage of the Trump years with the Western allies, to cultivate the image, to reclaim the old leadership role in the world. Everything was about a new beginning, and despite all the skepticism, the joy about it was definitely noticeable on this side of the Atlantic. Now Biden is back in Europe, especially for the weekend G20 meeting in Rome and then the climate summit in Glasgow. But apart from a private audience with the Pope this Friday, it shou...

The diplomatic crisis between Erdogan and the West has been resolved for the time being. But there is more to it: internationally documented human rights. And the future of Turkey. Erdogan's threats can no longer be relied on either. Last weekend the Turkish President threatened to have ten Western ambassadors, including the German one, deported as "undesirable persons". But after several haunting phone calls between Ankara , Washington and Berlin and a reassuring tweet from the US embassy in Ankara, Erdogan relented: expulsion canceled. But is that also the end of the crisis? Not at all. Recep Tayyip Erdogan had wanted to expel the ambassador, because she urged him to comply with a judgment of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR): Turkey should release the detained 2,017 Turkish cultural sponsor and philanthropist Osman Kavala. The Turkish judiciary initially accused Kavala of inciting the Gezi protests and, more recently, of participating in the attempted coup in 2...

The civilian-led interim government in Sudan was overthrown by the military. Ambassadors who sympathize with the demonstrators have now, according to reports, been removed. Shortly after the military coup in Sudan , the army leadership reportedly released the country's ambassador to the European Union and five other diplomats from their duties. In addition to the ambassador to the EU in Brussels, those in the USA, China, France and Qatar as well as the head of the Sudanese mission in Geneva were also deposed. This was reported by the Sudanese state television and the Al-Arabiya TV channel. Several ambassadors had previously condemned the coup and expressed their solidarity with the civil resistance movement that had been protesting against the putschists for days. The military took power in the East African country with 44 million inhabitants on Monday after the situation had worsened for weeks. General Abdel Fattah Burhan announced the disempowerment of civilian members of the gov...

In 2015, the international community reached an agreement with Iran, then Donald Trump terminated it. Now Tehran wants to negotiate a resumption of the deal. The Iran wants negotiations to resume its nuclear program next month. Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri announced this on Twitter. The negotiations with the EU's Deputy Foreign Representative, Enrique Mora, were very constructive. Bagheri wrote that it was agreed to resume nuclear negotiations by the end of November. He is the future head of the Iranian nuclear delegation in Vienna. He plans to announce the exact date next week. The government from Tehran wanted to hold consultations on the "remaining differences" before the official resumption of the nuclear negotiations in order to enable "result-oriented negotiations". Therefore, Bagheri met Mora in Brussels. Both diplomats last met for talks in Tehran in mid-October. Negotiations to restore the 2015 Vienna Agreement originally began in Apri...

The violently deposed head of government in Sudan, Abdalla Hamdok, is now under army guard in his home. The UN Security Council is deliberating on the situation. In Sudan , the military let the kidnapped Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok return home after the government coup. His wife is now back in the couple's house in the capital Khartoum , Hamdok's office confirmed according to the army. Read also:  Osman Kavala | Erdogan Declares Ambassadors To Be Undesirable However, the ex-head of government is "under strict surveillance" at home, the statement said. It is unclear whether the disempowered head of government is under house arrest or can move freely. Hamdok's office said other former government officials as well as civil society leaders were still in "detention in unknown locations". US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has now phoned Hamdok. Blinken "welcomed the release of the Prime Minister from custody," said the US State Department . Bli...

A Taliban giving a box of Afghan pine nuts to a Chinese minister. This scene happened this Tuesday morning in Doha. The day before, inside a bright room, a delegation from the Afghan interim government , led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban Deputy Prime Minister, and a team of Chinese officials , led by a team of Chinese officials , were sitting around a long table. Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs of China. It was Wang who received the box of pine nuts at the hands of another senior Taliban official, Amir Khan Muttaqi, Foreign Minister of the current Afghan Executive. Doha has been the city chosen to host the taliban's highest-level meeting so far with representatives of China since the radicals toppled the US-backed Afghan government in August and established a new regime following the withdrawal of troops. Americans. The Qatari capital also witnessed the first direct talks between a Taliban delegation and US representatives earlier this month. This was not Wang...

Gunmen have attacked a mosque in northern Nigeria during early morning prayers, killing at least 18 worshipers. The attack took place in the village of Mazkoka in the Michigan region of the country's Niger state, according to the foreign news agency AP. The assailants are said to belong to the Fulani family, a nomadic herdsman, who managed to escape after the shooting. It should be noted that similar racial violence, which has killed hundreds of people so far this year, is the result of decades of conflict over access to water and land. In the conflict, some members of the Fulani family have taken up arms against the Hausa farming communities. Al-Hassan Issa, chairman of the Michigan municipal government, told the AP that "armed men surrounded the mosque and opened fire on it." Four people were also injured in the incident, he said. Monde Correas, Niger's police commissioner, said the attack was related to a dispute between villagers and Fulani herdsmen. The latest at...

Specific military training returns to face the "existential threat" that Tehran possesses unconventional weapons. The noise of more than 70 fighter jets from eight countries in the largest international exercise in Israel's history contrasts with the official silence on the possible return of the Israeli military option to thwart the Iranian nuclear plan. After four years, the Air Force has decided to return to specific training to be ready if the order to act in the so-called "third circle" arrives. "This air maneuver, prepared for a year, is not focused on Iran or has to do with specific challenges," an Israeli high command clarifies to EL MUNDO at the southern Ovda air base a few days after the fifth edition of Blue Fag . Eight Armies, under the observation of another eight, rehearse flight scenarios for air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles, coordinate the action of aircraft of different types and generations, and complete the mutual learning of p...

There is apparently another attempted coup in Sudan. According to media reports, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok was placed under house arrest by a military unit. In Sudan there was apparently another attempted coup from the ranks of the military: armed men arrested several leading members of the government. The arrests had taken place in their homes, it was said from government circles. Al Hadath TV reported that the military had placed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok under house arrest. An unidentified military unit therefore besieged his house. After the fall of President Omar al-Bashir in 2019, the North African country has had a government made up of military and civilians for over a year. However, conflicts in the country continue to smolder. In addition, according to the authorities, there are repeated attempts by Bashir's supporters to weaken or overthrow the government. An attempted coup failed in September. In March of last year, Hamdok escaped an attempted assassination. Pro...

President Ivan Duque spoke of the biggest blow to the Colombian drug trade in decades. Otoniel is said to have supplied the United States with cocaine, among other things. During a large-scale operation, the Colombian armed forces arrested the alleged head of the powerful Gulf clan, Dairo Antonio Usaga, known as Otoniel. "This is the biggest blow to drug trafficking in our country this century," said Colombian President Ivan Duque in a video message. The blow is only comparable to the case of the drug dealer Pablo Escobar , who died in 1993 during a police operation over the rooftops of Medellín. A police officer was killed in the action. 500 members of Colombian special forces and 22 helicopters were involved in the operation in the province of Antioquia, the United States and Great Britain had provided information. Otoniel is said to have sent numerous deliveries of cocaine to the United States. He was also accused of murdering police officers and activists, sexually abusin...

Human rights activist Osman Kavala has been in Turkish custody without judgment for years. Diplomats from European countries had asked for his immediate release. In the dispute over the imprisoned Turkish human rights activist Osman Kavala, Head of State Recep Tayyip Erdogan has the German ambassador, the US ambassador and eight other ambassadors declared "undesirable persons".  Erdoğan said that he had instructed the Foreign Ministry to declare the diplomats persona non grata "as soon as possible". The ambassadors made a joint appeal earlier this week to demand the release of Kavala, which aroused the anger of the Turkish government. The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs then summoned the ambassadors of Germany and nine other countries, including the USA, France, Canada and Denmark, because of the demand. Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu had said that a recommendation by the ambassador to the judiciary in an ongoing process was unacceptable. Kavala has been detai...

US military has killed al-Qaeda leaders with a drone The US claims to have killed one of the leaders of the terror network in Syria. According to current knowledge, civilians were not harmed. The US military claims to have killed one of the leaders of the Al-Qaeda terrorist network in Syria. Abdul Hamid al-Matar was killed in a drone attack in northwest Syria, a spokesman for the US Central Command said on Friday. According to current knowledge, civilians were not harmed in the attack near Suluk. USA: Al-Qaeda uses Syria as a retreat The killing of al-Matar will affect al-Qaeda’s ability to "plan and carry out further attacks worldwide," added the army spokesman. The extremist organization continues to "pose a threat to the United States and our allies." Al-Qaeda is using Syria as a retreat to regroup and plan missions abroad. According to the Pentagon, the US had already killed an al-Qaeda commander in a US air strike in the Idlib region in northwest Syria at the e...