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The former leader of Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev has warned the world is in danger of entering a new cold war. Mr. Gorbachev made his comments at an event in Germany capital marking the 25th anniversary of fall of Berlin Wall. DM was there.
Mr. Gorbachev warned that because of the crisis in Ukraine, the world is on the brink of a new cold war, adding that some believes this war has already begun. Referring to the negotiations he took part in with western leaders to avoid blood shed in 1989, he said that today lessons should be drawn from those talks and more controversially for those in the west, he said Europe was partly to blame for today's increase tensions, accusing the west of triumphalism after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The Dutch foreign minister has warned the remains of last 9 victims from Malaysian Airlines plane that were down 4 months ago in rebel-held eastern Ukraine may never been recovered. Bert Koenders was speaking in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv as coffins carrying the remains of another 5 victims were flown to the Netherlands.
We cannot say at this moment in any certain way because you know the forensic work is very complex work. At what moment and even if we can recover those last 9 but we will do everything we can in cooperation with authority here to make that happen.
All 298 people on board flight MH17 died. Most were Dutch citizens.
North Korea has released 2 American citizens who were sentenced to terms of hard labor after being convicted of anti-government activities. The state department said Kenneth Bae and Matthew Todd Miller were on their way home. They were being accompanied by the Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, he negotiated directly with North Korean authorities. More from Tom E in Washington.
As we ended in North Korea, the situation surrounding the release of the 2 men is as murky as their initial arrested. Matthew Miller was allegedly held after ripping his visa and demanding asylum in the secretive state. Kenneth Bae, a missionary who was reported to have health problems, was accused of trying to set up an underground network in the country. Their release comes a month after another American Jeffrey Fowle was freed, meaning Pyongyang holds no more US Prisoners.
The United States military said coalition aircrafts have targeted a gathering of islamic state leaders near the Iraqi city of Mosul. According to US central command, the airstrikes late on Friday destroyed a convoy of 10 IS armed trucks. It said it could not confirm whether the group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was among those attending the gathering. Earlier Iraq welcomed to President Obama's decision to deploy 1500 additional US troops to support the fight against IS militants.
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African business leaders have pledged nearly 30 million dollars to help fight the Ebola epidemic. The funds which will be managed by African development bank will raise at the meeting in the Ethiopia capital Addis Ababa. The money will be used to pay for at least 1000 health workers who'd be deployed to the three country worst affected by the virus, Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.
President Obama has formally nominated a New York federal prosecutor Loretta Lynch as US Attorney General. At a news conference, he urged the Senate to endorse her without delay. Mr. Obama said she had distinguished herself as tough and fair.
Loretta might be the only lawyer in America who battles mobsters, and drug lords and terrorists and still has reputation for being a charming people person. And that probably because Loretta doesn't look to make headlines. She wants to make a difference. She is not about splash, she is about substance.
If her appointment is confirmed, Loretta Lynch would succeed Eric Holder who resigned 6 weeks ago.
Yemen's Shiite Houthi movement, which seized the capital Sanaa in September has rejected a new power-sharing government that president Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi announced on Friday, thwarting his efforts to end the country's political crisis. The group said President Hadi's choice of Cabinet ministers did not abide by what had been agreed. The government was also rejected by the president's own party, the General People's Congress which dismissed him from his poses.
Morocco has repeated its' demand for a postponement of the African Cup of Nations because the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Moroccan sports officials said the tournament should be moved from next year to 2016. But they did not answer ultimatum from the confederation of African Football, urging Morocco to confirm that it will host the event in January, February. Correspondences said the Cup is now most unlikely to take place in Morocco.