Xi tours Chinese top state media, demands total loyalty
By Didi Tang | AP February 19 at 8:55 AM BEIJING — Chinese President Xi Jinping made a rare, high-profile tour of the country’s top three state-run media outlets Friday, telling editors and reporters they must pledge absolute loyalty to the party and closely follow its leadership in “thought, politics and action.” The remarks by Xi, also head of the ruling Communist Party, are the latest sign of the party’s increasingly tighter control over all media and Xi’s unceasing efforts to consolidate..>> view originalDeath Toll at South Sudan UN Camp Rises to 18
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ATHENS Greece has threatened not to sign off on the final conclusions of an EU summit on migration and Britain's membership, holding out for assurances EU states will not shut borders over the migrant crisis, government officials said on Friday. "We can't agree unless there is a clear statement in the conclusions that there won't be any unilateral (migrant) action until the next summit. No borders should close until then," one of the officials told Reuters.Although not related to the issue o..>> view originalUgandan Opposition Leader Besigye Re-arrested; Museveni Leading Poll
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JERUSALEM A three-month hunger strike by a Palestinian journalist accused of militancy on behalf of Hamas has prompted stern questions from the United Nations and European Union over Israel's policy of keeping prisoners in detention without charge.Mohammad al-Qiq, who was detained by Israeli forces in November, is on the 86th day of a hunger strike in a hospital in northern Israel. Doctors say he is becoming weaker by the day, his speech slow and labored and that he is in pain.Israel placed hi..>> view originalUS strikes Islamic State in Libya, more than 40 dead
TRIPOLI U.S. warplanes carried out air strikes against Islamic State-linked militants in western Libya on Friday, killing as many as 40 people in an operation targeting a suspect linked to two deadly attacks last year in neighbouring Tunisia.It was the second U.S. air strike in three months against Islamic State in Libya, where the hardline Islamist militants have exploited years of chaos following Muammar Gaddafi's 2011 overthrow to build up a presence on the southern shores of the Mediterran..>> view original
Friday, February 19, 2016
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