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FM says Germany working to end Sudan’s pariah status By Samy MagdyThe Associated Press CAIRO - Germany’s top diplomat said Tuesday his country has been working to readmit Sudan into the international economy after the military’s overthrow of autocratic President Omar al-Bashir in April amid mass protests against his three-decade rule. Foreign Minister Heiko Maas landed in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, in the first such visit to the African country by a top German diplomat since 2011. His trip was part of Germany’s efforts to help overhaul Sudan’s battered economy and reach peace with armed groups, which remain among the top challenges facing the country’s new administration. It came two weeks after the formation of a power-sharing government by the pro-democracy movement and the generals, which will rule Sudan for a little more than three years until elections can be held. Maas told a joint news conference in Khartoum with Sudan’s newly appointed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok tha...

US Rep. Elhan Omar -Reuters They attacked her and wanted her to "teach her a lesson" in Congress. The result was reversed. So Elhan Omar beat "Friends of Israel" The American researcher and academic James Zogby, said that the exposure of the US Congressman Muslim Elhan Omar of criticism and recent attack was disturbing. On the one hand, it has become a victim of incitement and a target for reprimanding legislators for daring and objecting to the way Israel's supporters are working to silence the debate on US policy toward the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. At the same time, the "unfair" plans used against it by some pro-Israel Congressmen have been counterproductive, signaling new cracks in US-Israeli relations. Zoubi, who is president of the Arab American Institute, says the preferred weapon used by Elhan's opponents was to stigmatize anti-Semitism. It seems that its "sin" was its continued displeasure with the double standard in Amer...

Now It's Serious: Afghan Peace Talks Could Actually Bear Fruit MK Bhadrakumar  Winds have shifted. Both US and Pakistan are now open for a deal if it can be made Dramatic news is filtering in from Qatar where the United States Special Representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad and his delegation were huddled together with the representatives of the Taliban for four consecutive days since Monday. The duration of the talks unmistakably signifies that complex negotiations have taken place. Things are moving almost entirely in the direction I had indicated in my earlier blog US officials converge on Pakistan seeking peace. What comes to mind for a longtime observer and interlocutor in Afghan affairs will be the lines from T.S. Eliot’s poem Four Quartets, “Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.” The ‘foot falls in the memory’ go as far back as the forenoon of April 15, 1992 when the then Re...

Pause Mute Mute Current Time 1:50 / Duration Time 2:28 Loaded : 0% Progress : 0%   Fullscreen Source:  CNN n leader   02:28 Trump recognizes Venezuelan opposition leader as nation's president By Jeremy Diamond and Boris Sanchez, CNN (CNN)President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced that he is recognizing Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido as the legitimate president of Venezuela. "In its role as the only legitimate branch of government duly elected by the Venezuelan people, the National Assembly invoked the country's constitution to declare Nicolas Maduro illegitimate, and the office of the presidency therefore vacant. The people of Venezuela have courageously spoken out against Maduro and his regime and demanded freedom and the rule of law," Trump said in a statement recognizing Guaido as interim president of Venezuela. Tru...