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The militant group Islamic State s Libya wing released a video on Thursday purportedly showing it blowing up two warplanes at an air base while its fighters paraded heavy weapons in a show of force.The video showed the group stanley cup s fighters manning a tank, firing a mortar gun and destroying the planes parked in front of a hangar at the base seized by the militants near the central city of Sirte. The authenticity of the video could not be verified.Militants had seized Sirte s military and civilian airport two weeks ago, expanding the area it controls by exploiting a security vacuum in the oil producing nation, where two governments are vying for power.The militants had earlier this week seized a power plant in Sirte, completing a gradual takeover of the city that it began in February by pushing back a force sent from Misrata loyal to the rival Tripoli government.In the video, a Sudanese fighter mocked Misrata troops which have withdrawn from Sirte and vowed to take on Misrata, a western city. He had blown himself up in a suicide attack in April. stanley cup Since the beginnign of the year, militants in Libya loyal to Islamic State have claimed responsibility for killing dozens of Egyptian, Ethiopian Christians and attacking Tripoli s luxury Corinthia hotel, embassies and oilfields.Libya s internationally recognised government has been working from the east of the country since it lost control of Tripoli an stanley cup d western Libya in AugustThe United Nations presented a new draft for a peace agreement on Phgv G7 aims to slow dollar slide with tougher language
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday said his government is ready to hold talks with the US based on the principal of justice and mutual respect, but there should be a clear cut agenda for such a negotiation. HT Image This is the highest level response coming from Iran on the US President, Barack Obamas call to have direct talks with it on a wide range of issues including the contentious nuclear weapons programme of Iran. We should just have a clear-cut framework for talks. The agenda should be clear, Ahmadinejad told the ABC news channel in an interview. This is the first interview given by the Iranian President to an American news network after Obama became the US President in January this year. However, the Iranian President said so far he has only heard from media, the newspapers, that they re interested in talking . After becoming the US President, Obama has started a review of the Administrations policy on Iran and has offered direct engagement with the government yeezy of Ahmadinejad and ha af1 s even addressed the people of Iran through the media. Ahmadinejad said he is willing to talk with the Europeans and t adidas og he Americans. We have announced as much, that we are going to negotiate. But...... Again, based on justice and mutual respect. Well, after everything is said and done -- well, planning needs to be made, and some timetables need to be set. We believe in talking, in negotiating, based on sincerity and respect and justice, he said in his interview |
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