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It just might be the most significant attempt at a truce yet.
Ukrainian authorities and Russian-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine agreed overnight in Belarus to create a wide buffer zone between each side’s forces, to withdraw heavy weapons out of reach of one another and to send foreign fighters home.
Tunisian armed group Uqba bin Nafi, tunisian branch of al-Qaeda in Maghreb (Aqmi), has announced an alliance with Islamic State (Isis).
The clashes between the Houthis and the military are ongoing in different areas in the capital, leaving nearly a hundred killed and wounded, several news agencies report.
As of Friday afternoon, fighting has continued in Al-A’anab area, near the barracks of the 1st Armored Division, and in 30 Meter Street near to the Iman University, a private university owned by the Islamic Sunni Cleric Sheikh Abdulmajid Al-Zindani, one of the senior leaders of the Islah Party.
The results of the Scottish independence referendum are in, and the answer is a resounding “no.”
The referendum asked only a single question: Should Scotland become an independent country? Scottish voters have decided, by a large margin, that it should not. After all of the ballots were counted, “no” had taken 55.3% of the vote, and “yes” only 44.7%.
As Burma’s government and ethnic armed groups prepare to meet for peace talks next week, on-and-off fighting between the Burmese Army and ethnic Karen rebels continues to plague eastern Burma.
The latest clash took place on Sept. 9 in an area controlled by Brigade 5 of the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), the military wing of the Karen National Union (KNU), near the Oo Thu Hta region of Karen State’s Papun District.
Fighting between rival Shiite and Sunni groups has intensified after weeks of anti-government protests.
Fresh clashes in Yemen between rebels and government allies has claimed over 20 lives on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Polling stations across Scotland will open at 7am today as the country embarks on the biggest vote in its history.
More than four million people are registered to cast their votes across 32 local authority areas.