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While some question the plane’s make, a few have insinuated the co-pilot had only 200 hours of flight hours relative to the US standard of 1500 hours! At time of this writing, Boeing’s stocks on Wall Street are down by 5 percent. https://www.thestreet.com/investing/stocks-mixed-on-boeing-woes-14893743
By Keffyalew Gebremedhin The Ethiopia Observatory (TEO)
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson didn’t have the time to recuperate from his gruelling trip to Africa, when President Trump Tuesday threw him out of office, according to US media reports and a confirmation by the president.
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by Samuel Osborne, The Independent
Angela Merkel has suggested Germany and Europe can no longer rely on the US under Donald Trump.
Speaking at a campaign event held in a Bavarian beer tent, the German Chancellor emphasised the need for friendly relations with the US, Britain and Russia, but added: “We Europeans must really take our destiny into our own hands.”
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US President Trump discusses fight against terrorism with Egypt’s Sisi
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by Antonio Donini* IRIN
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
– Antonio Gramsci, Prison Notebooks, circa 1930.
Long before the November 2016 US elections, there were clear signals that multilateralism was in crisis. In fact, Donald Trump’s election is just the continuation of a downward spiral that has been under way for some time.
The most obvious symptom of this trend is the inability of the so-called international community to address armed conflict in any meaningful way. From Afghanistan to Ukraine, from Libya to Yemen, from South Sudan to Syria: the UN Security Council is blocked, and there is no respite in sight for civilians. Many conflicts are now “IHL-free war zones”: international humanitarian law is marginalised and humanitarian principles are jettisoned – whether by state or non-state armed groups. Slaughter, torture, and “surrender or starve” strategies thrive, despite much hand-wringing. Those who do manage to flee war zones do not fare much better.
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