A ship with as many as 700 refugees capsized in the Mediterranean en route from Libya to Italy. Authorities believe that only about 50 of the refugees survived. Last year 219,000 people crossed the Mediterranean by sea and 3,500 died. Smugglers transport the refugees for a hefty price but pay scant attention to the sea worthiness of the vessels used or for the welfare of the desperate people seeking a better life. Despite the fact that this tragedy keeps reoccurring, the world has done precious little to address the problem ,
Iran has rejected any possibility of the International Atomic Energy Agency inspecting military sites in Iran. The NPT refers to civilian nuclear facilities and none of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council allows inspection of military sites. However, in the preliminary agreement, Iran is bound to allow inspections at all “suspicious” sites. This ambiguity in the preliminary agreement may be a real stumbling block in the final agreement.
The person most responsible for the development of the Islamic State was Haji Bakr, a former colonel in the intelligence service of Saddam Hussein’s air defense force. The German magazine, Spiegel, had access to secret documents the Bakr has hidden away and has revealed how Bakr meticulously planned the rise of the Islamic State in Syria in order to regain power in Iraq. Bakr was hardly an Islamist, and it is clear that the Islamic State was nothing more than a ruthless plan for Iraqi Sunnis to regain power in Iraq. How the situation has changed.
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