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Friday, 29 April 2016
Merkel calls for more dialogue with Russia amid troop boost plans
Chancellor Merkel has said that Germany's possible plans to up troops in Lithuania should not aim to enflame tensions with Moscow. Merkel has also called for a "strong and prosperous" UK to remain in the EU.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a continuation of dialogue with Moscow on Friday, despite Berlin's consideration of a deployment to NATO's eastern borders.
"We are currently reviewing how we can continue our engagement and perhaps even bolster it... in order to ensure the security of all (NATO) states, particularly in the east," Merkel said during a joint press conference with Latvian Prime Minister Maris Kucinskis.
Abused circus lions flown to new home in South African bush
More than 30 abused circus lions from Peru and Colombia are being sent to a private reserve in South Africa. The lions lived for years in horrible conditions.
Thirty-three lions were flown to South Africa on Friday, escaping what animal rights activists have called a life of abuse and suffering as circus animals. The mammals are set to live out their days in their native African bush.
"These lions have endured hell on earth and now they are heading home to paradise. This is the world for which nature intended these animals for," Jan Creamer, president of Animal Defenders International, said in a statement.
US military: 'Afghan hospital bombing not a war crime'
A US military inquiry has concluded that a 2015 US airstrike on a hospital in Afghanistan did not amount to a war crime, but resulted from human error. Families of those killed in the strike have expressed their dismay.
Forty-two people were killed and some 37 wounded in an airstrike on a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in the Afghan city of Kunduz last year, drawing international condemnation.
The US military had been assisting Afghan forces in their fight against Taliban militants, who had launched an offensive in an effort to capture the city.
On Thursday, the Pentagon issued letters of reprimand to 16 people in question, which will effectively end their careers. However, no criminal charges were leveled against them.
"The investigation concluded that certain personnel failed to comply with the rules of engagement and the law of armed conflict, however, the investigation did not conclude that these failures amounted to a war crime," General Joseph Votel, commander of the US Central Command, told reporters on Friday.
"This was an extreme situation," complicated by war fatigue, Votel added.
"The label 'war crime' is typically reserved for intentional acts - intentional targeting of civilians or intentionally targeting protected objects or locations," Votel said. "Again, the investigation found that the incident resulted from a combination of unintentional human errors, process errors and equipment failures, and that none of the personnel knew they were striking a hospital."
Dozens were killed in the US bombardment of a Doctors Without Borders hospital
An initial report released in November called the attack an accident, and Gen. John Campbell, then-head of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan, later clarified by saying a series of blunders had led to the strike on the hospital.
'A worrying signal to warring parties'
Doctors Without Borders, however, has cast doubt on the US military's assertion that the bombing was a mistake. The international charity organization said in a statement Friday that it would like to see an "independent and impartial" investigation, adding that the punishments announced by the US military were inadequate and "out of proportion" to the deaths, injuries and destruction caused by the attack.
"The lack of meaningful accountability sends a worrying signal to warring parties, and is unlikely to act as a deterrent against future violations of the rules of war," the organization said.
Meinie Nicolai, president of Doctors Without Borders, also criticized the report's findings: "The threshold that must be crossed for this deadly incident to amount to a grave breach of international humanitarian law is not whether it was intentional or not," Nicolai said, adding, "[A]rmed groups cannot escape their responsibilities on the battlefield simply by ruling out the intent to attack a protected structure such as a hospital."
Survivors dissatisfied
Survivors and those killed in the US strike have expressed dismay that those responsible for the deaths and injuries will not face criminal charges.
Zabihullah Neyazi, a nurse who lost his left arm, eye and a finger in the attack, said administrative punishment wasn't enough and that a "trial should be in Afghanistan, in our presence, in the presence of the victims' families, so they would be satisfied."
General Joseph Votel expressed "deepest condolences" to the victims' families and survivors, and said that $3,000 (2,622 euros) had been paid for those wounded, and $6,000 for those killed in the airstrike.
Livingstone Says Labour Should Reinstate Him
Jeremy Corbyn refuses to comment on his unrepentant ally's Hitler claims - as shadow cabinet MPs call for him to be expelled.
Ken Livingstone has said a Labour inquiry should reinstate him because he first made his inflammatory Hitler claims 30 years ago.
The former London mayor, who was suspended yesterday for bringing the party into disrepute, claimed this history was unknown to MPs because "they don't teach it in Israeli schools".
Mr Livingstone, who caused a storm of protest after claiming in a radio interview that Hitler had been a "Zionist" and wanted to send Jews to live in Israel, also cited a controversial academic book he plans to wield in his defence.
Saturday, 23 April 2016
Sh 67.3 billion teachers’ arrears undergoing verification
The Controller and Auditor General (CAG) is set to validate teachers’ salary and other allowance arrears amounting to sh67.3billion to facilitate their payment by the Treasury, the House heard yesterday.
Deputy Minister in the President’s Office, Regional Administration and Local Government, Selemani Jaffo, told parliamentarians that there were anomalies which had been detected and called for CAG’s verification to determine the actual debt.
According to the deputy minister, the debt registered by his office as of April 19, this year, stood at Sh67.3billion, of which Sh17.5billion is for allowance arrears and Sh49.8billion being salary arrears.
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