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Venezuela devalues currency to align it with black market – AFP citing official Venezuela has devalued the Bolivar, in an attempt to align the currency’s value with the country’s black market, AFP reported. Amid hyperinflation, many Venezuelans rely on the black market to gauge the currency’s value فنزويلا تخفض قيمة العملة لتتماشى مع السوق السوداء - AFP نقلا عن مسؤول خفضت فنزويلا قيمة بوليفار ، في محاولة لتوفيق قيمة العملة مع السوق السوداء للبلاد حسب ما أوردته فرانس بريس. وسط التضخم المفرط ، يعتمد العديد من الفنزويليين على السوق السوداء لقياس قيمة العملة.

Bashir: ceasefire in South Kordofan until peace is achieved Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Monday extended the cease-fire in South Kordofan state until peace, in a speech to a crowd of residents of the state, wearing a military uniform. In a speech at the state center of Kadugli, Bashir pledged to work for peace in the region at any cost, and expressed the hope that the next celebration of the feast would be organized in the town of Kuda, the rebel stronghold of the movement. People's Liberation Movement of Sudan ", after achieving peace in the state. He said: "Kadugli announced the extension of the cease-fire in order to achieve peace in South Kordofan." He said that the Sudanese state is exerting efforts to provide educational opportunities to be followed by other opportunities. He promised to give citizens the opportunity to produce and support the economy and to provide education, health and treatment services to the children of martyrs. Since 2011,

"Macaron plans to discuss human rights situation in Egypt with Sisi "more frankly French President Emmanuel Macaron has said he will discuss the situation of human rights "more frankly" with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who will meet in Cairo on Monday. The French president, who arrived in Egypt on Sunday for a three-day visit, criticized the human rights situation in Egypt. "The situation has worsened since October 2017," he said. He pointed out that he would be away from the media "closed talks" with Sisi about "individual cases" of dissidents or imprisoned personalities. "I will speak more frankly, and more clearly ... because I think that is in the interest of the president of the regime and of stability in Egypt," McCron said during an interview with the French press on the first day of his visit to Egypt. He explained that the authority in Egypt has "relatively authoritarian features that it

A supporter of Nicolas Maduro holding the flags of Cuba and Venezuela © Reuters / Carlos Garcia Rawlins ‘Attack orchestrated from Washington’: Cuba slams US for ‘meddling’ accusation on Venezuela Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez has rejected US accusations that his country is “meddling” in Venezuela, and accused Washington of trying to “orchestrate” a coup to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro. Rodriguez’ comments came after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo accused Cuban “security and intelligence thugs” of propping up Maduro’s regime in his UN Security Council speech. He called on the international community to “pick a side,” choosing between President Maduro and opposition leader Juan Guaidó, who declared himself interim president last week. “I categorically reject the slanderous accusations launched by the US Secretary of State against Cuba at the UN Security Council,” Rodriguez tweeted later on Saturday. “His attack on the constitutionality of Venezuela, orchestrated f

Hormone Test Can Predict Unhealthy Aging A hormone found in the blood that's commonly linked to heart disease also might signal when someone is more likely to grow weaker or lose their ability to balance before they're 70. People in their early 60s with higher-than-normal levels of brain natriuretic peptide, or BNP, walked slower and were less able to raise themselves from a chair and balance on one leg up to nine years later, according to a study by British researchers published Tuesday in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation. While high levels of the peptide are associated with greater risk for heart attacks and other diseases, the new study indicates it could be more than just a warning sign of heart disease. "We were surprised that BNP turned out to be the best predictor of our simple measures of aging," said Yoav Ben-Shlomo, who helped author the study for the Medical Research Council Unit for Lifelong Health and Aging at University Coll

U.N. ASSEMBLY CONDEMNS THE INVASION OF PANAMA 'The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to condemn U.S. military intervention in Panama and called on the United States to halt its action and withdraw its invasion forces.' - 1989 The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to condemn U.S. military intervention in Panama and called on the United States to halt its action and withdraw its invasion forces. The assembly voted 75-20 to adopt a resolution presented by Cuba and Nicaragua, two allies of ousted Panamanian leader Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega. Thirty-nine nations abstained and 25 of the 159 assembly member states were absent.The resolution said the General Assembly strongly deplores the U.S. invasion, "which constitutes a flagrant violation of international law and the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of states." It "demands the immediate cessation of the intervention and the withdrawal of U.S. invasion forces from Panama

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