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Despite Virus, Shiite Pilgrims Gather For Mourning Month

Daily Dispatch August 21, 2020

Shiite pilgrims poured into the Iraqi shrine city of Karbala on Friday for the rites of the holy month of Muharram, ignoring calls to stay home as COVID-19 spreads. The pilgrimage is expected to be one of the largest religious gatherings in the Muslim world since the onset of the coronavirus

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Iran will never have a nuclear weapon – Trump insists

Daily Dispatch August 20, 2020

U.S President Donald Trump has vowed that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon and demanded the reinstatement of all suspended United Nations sanctions on Iran. In 2018, Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal orchestrated by the Obama regime which has Russia, Germany, Iran, UK, France, China and the EU as signatories. According to […]

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Russia Says It Has Intercepted U.S. Spy Planes Over Black Sea: Ifax

Daily Dispatch August 19, 2020

Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday it had scrambled a jet above the Black Sea to intercept two U.S. spy planes approaching its border, following a similar incident earlier in the day over the Baltic, Interfax reported. In both cases, the U.S. planes turned away before reaching the Russian border, the defence ministry was cited […]

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Breaking: Malian colonel declares self head of junta

Daily Dispatch August 19, 2020

Assimi Goita, a colonel in the Malian army, has declared himself head of the “National Committee for the salvation of the People”, a group created by rebels in the country. He announced his new position after a meeting with top civil servants on Wednesday. The development comes after a coup on Tuesday that led to […]

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Mali military junta announces vague transition programme

Daily Dispatch August 19, 2020

The junta who ousted Mali’s elected president and government in a military coup promised on Wednesday to restore stability and oversee a transition to elections within a “reasonable” time. At gunpoint, President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita resigned and dissolved parliament late on Tuesday hours after the mutineers detained him, plunging a country already facing a jihadist […]

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Malian President, Ibrahim Keita resigns

Daily Dispatch August 19, 2020

Malian President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita has resigned. Keita, on Wednesday, said he was resigning to avoid “bloodshed,” hours after his arrest by troops. Rebel soldiers reportedly detained Ibrahim Boubacar Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse on Tuesday afternoon and drove the pair to a military base in the town of Kati, near the capital Bamako, […]