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Conflict between police and a group of armed men at outskirts of Kumanovo (north of Macedonia) is ended with the killing of ‘terrorists’. Interior minister spokesperson Ivo Kotevski reported it at Skopje
Police has told to have found bodies of 14 terrorists in uniform and it is working to identify them. It has found a big arsenal even. Kotevski confirmed the death of eight policemen in two days.
The government of Central African Republic and 10 armed groups signed a peace deal Sunday aimed at ending two years of fighting that has killed thousands.
U.N. Special Representative Babacar Gaye said, “I want to believe that the commitment is sincere and that we will engage in the construction of progressive peace.”
Syrian government helicopters dropped leaflets over a northwestern town held by Muslim militants Sunday, calling on fighters to surrender and residents to stay away from militant positions as battles intensified nearby, Syrian state TV said.
The warning came as state media and activists said government forces are on the offensive in the outskirts of the town of Jisr al-Shughour, adding that troops have closed all roads leading to the town — which was captured by Muslim militants late last month.
Yemen’s Houthi forces accepted a five-day humanitarian ceasefire proposed by Saudi Arabia, the spokesman for the Yemeni army said.
The truce that will allow humanitarian aid in the war-torn country is expected to begin at 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
Fighting has escalated in war-torn South Sudan forcing up to 100,000 people to flee their homes, the United Nations has said.
Toby Lanzer, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for South Sudan said up to 100,000 people had been displaced from their homes in Unity State, as clashes intensifed between rebels and government troops.
MIA correspondent in Kumanovo informs that a spate of detonations and intensified machine gun fire is heard from a south-western part of the city where Macedonian police and an armed group were locked in fighting since early Saturday morning.
The intensified fighting follows the arrival of police reinforcements. Local citizens in the ethnically mixed part of the city, that has Macedonians, Albanians and Serbs living side by side, are evacuating, some by foot and other by police vehicles.
A hostage situation is continuing since Friday night in Sukma district of Chhattisgarh where around 250 villagers were seized by Maoist rebels on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to neighbouring Dantewada.
Chief Minister Raman Singh said anywhere between 200 and 250 villagers were abducted by the Naxals from a few villages in Sukma district and efforts were being made by the local administration for their release.