Caribbean Times 100th issue - Friday 29th April 2016
Caribbean Times 100th issue - Friday 29th April 2016
Caribbean Times 100th issue - Friday 29th April 2016
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<strong>Friday</strong> <strong>29th</strong> <strong>April</strong> <strong>2016</strong> c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 13<br />
Air strikes on Aleppo hospital<br />
kill doctors and children<br />
BEIRUT - Air strikes destroyed a<br />
hospital and killed dozens of people in<br />
rebel-held areas of Aleppo, including<br />
children and doctors; in an attack that<br />
a U.S. official said appeared to be solely<br />
the work of the Syrian government.<br />
The city of Aleppo is at the center<br />
of a military escalation that has undermined<br />
peace talks in Geneva aimed<br />
at ending the five-year-old war. U.N.<br />
envoy Staffan de Mistura appealed to<br />
the presidents of the United States and<br />
Russia to intervene to salvage a ceasefire<br />
that was “barely alive”.<br />
The truce is intended to allow an<br />
opportunity for peace talks and delivery<br />
of humanitarian relief.<br />
Six days of air strikes and rebel<br />
shelling in Aleppo, which is split between<br />
government and rebel forces,<br />
have killed 200 people, two-thirds of<br />
PARIS - Twenty-four<br />
police officers have been injured,<br />
three of them seriously,<br />
during protests against a<br />
proposed labour law change<br />
in France.<br />
More than 100 protesters<br />
were arrested as tens of<br />
thousands gathered on the<br />
streets of major cities. Some<br />
burned tyres and threw bottles<br />
and stones at police.<br />
Interior Minister Bernard<br />
Cazeneuve said protest organisers<br />
should “condemn<br />
these excesses by a handful<br />
of hooligans”.<br />
One of the police officers<br />
is in a critical condition, he<br />
said. \<br />
The demonstrations took<br />
them on the opposition side, the Syrian<br />
Observatory for Human Rights say.<br />
The “catastrophic deterioration”<br />
in Aleppo over the last 24 to 48 hours<br />
has jeopardised the aid lifeline that<br />
supplies millions of Syrians, said Jan<br />
Egeland, chairman of the U.N. humanitarian<br />
task force.<br />
“I could not in any way express<br />
how high the stakes are for the next<br />
hours and days.”<br />
The U.S. State Department said<br />
Syria’s air strike on the hospital in<br />
Aleppo was “reprehensible,” and it<br />
called on Russia to use its influence<br />
to pressure Syrian President Bashar<br />
al-Assad’s government to stop the attacks.<br />
“Once again we call on the regime<br />
to cease these absolutely senseless attacks,<br />
which are of course violations of<br />
LONDON - British police have charged<br />
two men and a woman from Birmingham<br />
with terrorism-related offenses in a probe<br />
that began after the extremist attacks on Paris<br />
and Brussels. West Midlands Police said<br />
Thursday the three have been charged with a<br />
variety of offenses.<br />
They are Mohammed Ali Ahmed, 26, Zakaria<br />
Boufassil, 26, and Soumaya Boufassil,<br />
29. They were among five people arrested<br />
<strong>April</strong> 14-15 in Birmingham and at London’s<br />
place in several cities, including<br />
Paris, Rennes and<br />
Marseille.<br />
Some of the fiercest<br />
clashes were in capital.<br />
The proposed law, which<br />
will be debated in parliament<br />
next week, would remove<br />
some of the protection<br />
workers enjoy against being<br />
laid off, in a bid to encourage<br />
businesses to hire more<br />
people.<br />
It is billed as a measure<br />
to combat chronic unemployment<br />
but opponents say<br />
the cessation of hostilities,” State Department<br />
spokesman John Kirby said.<br />
A State Department official said<br />
there were indications that solely the<br />
Syrian government conducted the<br />
bombing of the hospital.<br />
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry<br />
said Russia had an urgent responsibility<br />
to press the government of its ally<br />
Assad to stop attacking civilians and<br />
observe the ceasefire. (Reuters).<br />
French police injured in labour law protest<br />
it will let employers bypass<br />
workers’ rights on pay, rest<br />
time and overtime rates.<br />
There have been repeated<br />
protests against the proposed<br />
changes over the past two<br />
months. Further protests are<br />
planned for May 1 st .<br />
UK police charge 3 with terrorism offenses<br />
Gatwick Airport.<br />
The arrests were made one week after<br />
Belgian authorities arrested a prime suspect<br />
in the deadly March 22 attack on Brussels<br />
Airport.<br />
That suspect, Mohamed Abrini, was also<br />
wanted in the Nov. 13 attacks on Paris. One<br />
European security official told The Associated<br />
Press that Abrini had made multiple trips<br />
to Birmingham last year, meeting with other<br />
suspected extremists. (Fox News).