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Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters, Reuters
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A handout picture released by Kuwait’s foreign ministry on June 26, 2016, shows Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Sabah (R) meeting with United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon at his ministry in Kuwait City. Ban is also to meet with Yemen’s warring sides in a bid to push forward peace talks that have made no headway after two months. / AFP PHOTO / KUWAITI FOREIGN MINISTER
Government Delegates Pull from Yemeni Peace Talks, Houthi Violations Continue Killing Four Saudi Victims
Yemeni government delegates assigned to the peace talks in Kuwait said they were leaving the negotiations on Monday after Houthi militia rejected a United Nations proposal aimed to ending their country’s war. Foreign Minister Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi insisted the...Caption:
France’s Minister of the Interior Bernard Cazeneuve (C) meets with Vice President of the French Muslim council CFCM Abdallah Zekri (L) and CFCM Head Anouar Kbibech (R) at the Ministry of the Interior on August 1, 2016 in Paris. Muslims across France were invited to participate in Catholic ceremonies on July 31 to mourn a priest whose murder by jihadist teenagers sparked fears of religious tension. Masses will be celebrated across the country in honour of octogenarian Father Jacques Hamel, whose throat was cut in his church on August 2 in the latest jihadist attack on France. “We are all Catholics of France,” said Anouar Kbibech, the head of the French Muslim council CFCM, in an expression of togetherness in the wake of the attack. / AFP PHOTO / JACQUES DEMARTHON /
French Muslims to Launch Foundation to Finance Mosques
In the wake of recent statements made by French Prime Minister Manuel Valls on inhibiting foreign funding of mosque construction in France, a new foundation will be created to help finance the mosques and keep out radical benefactors, the head of the French Muslim...Caption:
A tractor mows a field on the site where EDF Energy’s Hinkley Point C nuclear power station will be constructed in Bridgwater, southwest England October 24, 2013. REUTERS/Suzanne Plunkett/File Photo
UK Still Seeks “Close Ties with China” Despite Delaying Nuclear Deal
Last week, British Prime Minister Theresa May delayed final approval of building Hinkley Point, Britain’s first nuclear plant in decades, due to concerns about China’s involvement in the project. May’s predecessor David Cameron drew up the plan in which French utility...Caption:
Rebel fighters and civilians inspect the wreckage of a Russian helicopter that had been shot down in the north of Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province, Syria August 1, 2016. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah