Alan Lorenz

Russia has blacklisted D66 MP Sjoerd Sjoerdsma. This means that he will not be able to join a delegation from MPs to Moscow next month. Foreign minister Stef Blok has already called on the Russian ambassador, but that has not led…
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In Eastern Congo people were well on their way to end the Ebola epidemic after eighteen months. But due to a flare-up of violence, new people became infected. Ebola has not yet been challenged in Eastern Congo, that much is clear.…
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Australia Ravaged by Sandstorms and Hail Balls. Australia is preparing for heavy thunderstorms, including in many areas affected by the massive forest fires. There is a risk of flooding in some places. The Australian Bureau of…
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President Vladimir Putin is going to the international conference on the conflicts in Libya on Sunday. The Kremlin reported that he is participating in the conference in Berlin, which should lead to a peace settlement. It was not…
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France, the United Kingdom and Germany have activated a sanction mechanism in the nuclear deal with Iran. That brings the end of the 2015 agreement a step closer, although the three countries say they are not after it. After the US…
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Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar has requested an extension of the ceasefire agreement with the UN-recognized Libyan government. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that no deal has been reached as a result. The peace talks…
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Two American soldiers were killed on Saturday by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan. Two others were injured in the attack on a US Army vehicle near Kandahar. That has been publicised by a spokesperson for the NATO mission in…
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A security firm from Tel Aviv, Israel, was offered two jewels through a hidden side of the internet that was stolen at the end of November from the Grünes Gewölbe museum in the German city of Dresden, in Saxony. It was there that…
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Turkey is committed to reducing tensions between Iran and the United States. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has called with his colleagues in Washington and Tehran. "We will endure working with other countries over the coming…
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Thousands of Iraqis scanned "death to America" on Saturday at the funeral of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Abou Mehdi al-Mouhandis, his chief lieutenant in Iraq, who died in an American attack. Among other things, a…
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