Thursday, November 18, 2010
A group of officers claiming to have taken control of Madagascar’s government seem to have been isolated at their military barracks at the Antananarivo airport. Calm has returned to the Malagasy capital.
The coup was announced earlier today by Colonel Charles Andrianasoavina, who together with General Noël Rakotonandrasana and another 20 army officers made a statement to the press saying a “military council for the welfare of the people” had taken control of Madagascar.
Colonel Andrianasoavina said the transitional government, ruling Madagascar since the March 2009 coup of Anry Rajoelina, was now suspended. The putschists promised to “restore democracy” and seek “national reconciliation.”
The News:
http://www.afrol.com/articles/36930
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
It’s of two dead the balance of an explosion that has hit today a running car in Gaza.
Vehicle has been hit by a rocket fired by a drone. An israeli military spokesman said that raid has been made by Israel.
According spokesman during operation, directed by armed forces and Shin-Bet (Secret Security Service), one of two killed was an high official of a terroristic group called ‘Islam Army’.
The News:
http://www.corriere. … /1-A_000145569.shtml
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
According to Russian media outlets, the ringleader of the secret police of the Rahmon’s regime in Tajikistan, a certain Yatimov, was forced to admit at a press conference in Dushanbe, that the Tajik Mujahideen are continuing waging Jihad in the Rasht region of the country.
Yatimov also complained that the Mujahideen are waging fierce battles with Rahmonov’s regime on the Tajik side of the Afghan-Tajik border.
The News:
http://www.kavkazcen … 10/11/15/12835.shtml
Monday, November 15, 2010
The law enforcement bodies of South Ossetia reported a new violation of air space by a drone.
According to news agency “Res,” a source in law enforcement agencies reported that on 14 November, “a drone violated the airspace of South Ossetia from Georgia.”
“We assume that it could perform reconnaissance overflight over our territory. This is not the first case lately, when a drone violates the airspace of South Ossetia from the Georgian side. It was fired from the ground, and it left the territory of South Ossetia “, noted the source.
Earlier, the Foreign Minister of South Ossetia has already stated on more frequent flights of Georgian drones near the border of South Ossetia.
The News:
http://cominf.org/en/node/1166485187
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Attacks in two different Afghan provinces - Nangarhar in the east and Kunduz in the north - have left several people dead, including many of the assailants.
In Saturday’s first attack, a pre-dawn Taliban raid was thwarted by soldiers at a US military facility - Forward Operating Base Fenty - that is part of the Jalalabad airfield.
An Isaf statement said that no Afghan National Army (ANA) troops or Isaf soldiers were killed in the incident.
Eight attackers were killed, many of whom had been wearing ANA uniforms, Ahmad Zia Abdulzoi, a Nangarhar government spokesman, said.
Zabiullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said there were 14 attackers and that 11 of them were killed, but the claim could not be independently corroborated.
The News:
http://english.aljaz … 111333719962658.html