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WikiLeaks founder Assange arrested by British police

Daily Dispatch April 11, 2019

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been evicted from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London where he had been holed up since August 2012 and the British police have arrested him. The arrest followed Ecuador’s President Lenin Moreno’s announcement that the country has withdrawn asylum from Assange,

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German Police raid 90 Islamist network sites

Daily Dispatch April 10, 2019

Police in Germany raided 90 locations linked to a nationwide Islamist network on Wednesday the interior ministry said. The searches were carried out in nine of Germany’s 16 states, including Berlin, Bavaria and North Rhine Westphalia. At the head of the network, according to the Interior Ministry, are the aid organisations WorldWide Resistance-Help and Ansaar […]

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Crashed Japanese F-35 wreckage found in Pacific, pilot still missing

Daily Dispatch April 10, 2019

Search and rescue teams found wreckage from a crashed Japanese F-35 stealth fighter in the Pacific Ocean close to northern Japan as efforts to find the missing pilot continues, authorities said on Wednesday. “The aircraft, less than one-year-old, was the first F-35 to be assembled in Japan and was aloft for only 28 minutes on […]

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British police hunt five men in UK suspected to be involved in the Rwanda genocide

Daily Dispatch April 10, 2019

Police in United Kingdom, Scotland Yard police are investigating five men in the UK suspected of involvement in the Rwandan genocide Cops believe the men orchestrated killings during the 1990s atrocity that saw more than 800,000 people die Scotland Yard launched a probe after officers from its War Crime Unit visited the African nation following […]

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Reluctant Britain sets EU polls for May 23

Daily Dispatch April 8, 2019

The British government on Monday set May 23 as the date for European Parliament elections, but said it never intends to hold them as it hopes to have left the EU by then. A spokeswoman said the formal “day of poll order” had been laid in parliament, but added, “It remains the government’s intention to […]

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Algeria’s president Bouteflika submits resignation – State TV

Daily Dispatch April 2, 2019

Algeria’s veteran President Abdelaziz Bouteflika informed the Constitutional Council that he is resigning in a move that is to take effect on Tuesday, state television said, after the military called for his impeachment. Bouteflika “officially advised the Constitutional Council of the end of his term of office as President of the Republic” from Tuesday, said […]