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FARC to participate in Colombia's 2018 elections In a landmark moment in Colombia's history, the government of President Juan Manuel Santos and the country's left-wing FARC rebels are set to announce a final peace accord Wednesday in Havana, Cuba, after nearly four years of negotiations between the two sides of the conflict, according to sources close to the peace process. “ A deal is imminent to close the negotiations,” a government official told reporters Tuesday, adding that an announcement would likely take place around 7 p.m. local time in Havana. Earlier on Tuesday, FARC leader Timoleon Jimenez, known as Timochenko, wrote on his Twitter account, "We are at the doors of important announcements that bring us close to the final deal." The Twitter account of the government peace negotiation team shared a photo of FARC and government negotiators, standing interspersed together, with the caption, "The day is approaching." T

At least nine people killed and dozens more injured in border town attack blamed on PKK militants A car bomb blamed on Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rebels on Friday exploded outside a police headquarters in Turkey's southeastern town of Cizre, killing at least nine people according to security sources. The bomb attack, which struck a checkpoint about 50 metres from the building, caused immense damage to the headquarters of the special anti-riot police force in Cizre, with television pictures showing an immense plume of black smoke heading into the sky. Security sources told the Reuters news agency that at least nine people had been killed and 64 others injured. Full report: http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/car-bomb-devastates-turkish-police-headquarters-cizre-1191355667

An estimation about the recent Turkish invasion in North Syria failed evolution It's hard for someone to believe that the Turkish ground forces invaded North Syria to fight ISIS. It seems that the US officials decided to calm down Tayyip Erdoğan and let him play his game for a while, in order to make him forget Fethullah Gülen and the failed coup of July. Obama doesn't want to risk further with the unpredictable Turkish leader, especially after he showed that he may turn to Putin. Obama also wants to leave without risking further mess in the Middle East chaotic puzzle. He will leave the "hot potato" to the hands of the next US presidency. Erdoğan knows that he has limited time before Clinton or Trump in the US presidency. Therefore, he tries to take as much as he can and negotiate from a power position when the Syrian hell will end someday. Right now, Erdoğan's main concern is to retain his agenda, thus exploit the chaos in

του system failure Αφού βρήκε κλειστές πόρτες στην άλλη πλευρά του Ατλαντικού , ο Αλέξης Τσίπρας θα δοκιμάσει την τύχη του στον Ευρωπαϊκό χώρο, με την πρωτοβουλία για τη διάσκεψη των Μεσογειακών χωρών της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης στην Αθήνα στις 9 Σεπτεμβρίου. Εντωμεταξύ, έξι χρόνια έχουν ήδη περάσει από τη στιγμή που η Ελλάδα πέρασε το κατώφλι της νεοφιλελεύθερης κόλασης, που της επιβλήθηκε από τους δανειστές και κατέστρεψε την οικονομία. Από τον Γάλλο επίτροπο, Πιερ Μοσκοβισί, μέχρι και τον Αμερικανό υπουργό οικονομικών, Τζακ Λιου, το νεοφιλελεύθερο κατεστημένο της Δύσης επαναλαμβάνει μονότονα την ανάγκη για περισσότερες "μεταρρυθμίσεις". Δηλαδή, περισσότερο ξεπούλημα δημόσιας περιουσίας μέσω ιδιωτικοποιήσεων έναντι πινακίου φακής, περισσότερη "ευελιξία" στα εργασιακά, περισσότερη καταστροφή του κοινωνικού κράτους, περισσότερη λιτότητα. Και όλα αυτά, παρά τις αμέτρητες καταστροφές που επέφεραν οι πολιτικές του ΔΝΤ στο παρελθόν σε άλλες χώ

Doctors Without Borders asked ‘the U.S., U.K. and France to ensure an immediate application of measures to substantially increase the protection of civilians’ after the latest deadly hospital bombing in Yemen. by Kit O'Connell The recent bombing of a hospital in northwestern Yemen has drawn international outrage and new criticism of the Saudi-led, U.S.-backed forces fighting there, but it’s just the latest in a slew of war crimes committed over the past 15 years in the name of the U.S.-backed global war on terror. Nineteen people were killed and 24 were injured in the Aug. 15 bombing, which struck Abs Hospital in northwestern Yemen. Among the dead was Abdul Kareem al Hakeemi, a staff member of Doctors Without Borders (frequently referred to by its French name, Médecins sans Frontières, or MSF). It was the fourth and deadliest bombing of an MSF-supported hospital since the attacks on Yemen began in early 2015, leading the NGO to evacuate its six