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Monday, 17 October 2016

Dozens dead in Aleppo airstrikes




*** including 14 from same family

Fourteen members of the same family -- including two infants and eight other children -- were killed on Monday, according to the activist group Aleppo Media Center, CNN report.

More than 30 people were killed in airstrikes that hit the Al-Qaterji neighborhood Sunday night, both the AMC and the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.

Monday morning another round of airstrikes killed 14 more people in the al-Marjah neighborhood, all from one family, according to the AMC.

Among them, a pair of six-week-old infants and an eight year old, AMC said.

The death toll continued to climb as Russians helped bolster the Syrian army's air attack, after Moscow vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution Saturday to halt the action in Aleppo and allow access for humanitarian aid.

As the strikes have continued, Western powers accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his supporters of war crimes.


Both the US and UK have mulled potential economic sanctions against Syria and Russia due to the Aleppo crisis.

Wednesday, 14 September 2016

Powell: Trump is an International disgrace


Colin Powell
The former U.S Secretary of State Colin Powell has labeled Republican presidential,  nominee, Donald Trump as “national disgrace and an international pariah.”
Colin Powel in his leaked e-mails also described Trump as racist. CNN reports.
The former secretary of state tore into Trump as an embarrassing figure to represent the United States.
“Trump is a national disgrace and an international pariah,” Powell wrote in June.
“He appeals to the worst angels of the GOP nature and poor white folks,” Powell wrote in another email.
As Trump’s lead in the Republican primary solidified, Powell complained to CNN’s Fareed Zakaria about the network’s political coverage.
“That’s what the 99% believe. When Trump couldn’t keep that up he said he also wanted to see if the certificate noted that he was a Muslim,” Powell wrote in an August email.
The messages, the existences of which were first reported by BuzzFeed and The Intercept, were posted to DCleaks, an organization affiliated with other recent hacks of high-profile figures.
The emails are notable for their candor about Trump. Powell, who oversaw the State Department during the beginning of George W. Bush’s administration, hasn’t endorsed Trump and has largely sidestepped questions about his thoughts on the controversial GOP nominee.
Powell also lampooned Trump’s proposal that he could win over the African-American population.