Turkey said on Tuesday it had agreed with the United States on terms for setting up a “safe zone” inside northern Syria as part of their campaign against Islamic State militants, but the US State Department denied there was any such agreement.
Boko Haram, which allied itself with the Islamic State terror group in 2014, has waged an guerrilla-style insurrection across Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger to varying degrees in the past six years.
The saber rattling in the Korean Peninsula escalated Friday as the North threatened military action if South Korea does not stop blaring propaganda from speakers across the border by Saturday.
Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), viewed by Washington as the extremist network’s most risky branch, has taken advantage of the chaos to seize the southern port city of Mukalla, capital of the vast desert Hadramawt province.
Employees choosing to work four days a week will work 10 hours per day so they can earn the same level of wages they earn for working eight hours per day for five days a week, the sources said.
Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu abandoned efforts to build a coalition government on Tuesday, following the failure of talks with the leaders of two smaller parties.
The release of the results of the postal ballot, held earlier this month, marked the latest salvo in a bitter and public feud between the 87-year-old FN founder and his daughter Marine, who now runs the party and is seeking to oust her firebrand father.
But the pressures of being a globally-recognised human rights campaigner has not stopped Malala Yousafzai from knuckling down and getting the education she risked her life for.