Donald Trump tweets again, tells Israel 'Stay strong, January 20 is coming'

NEW DELHI: Donald Trump today continued to conduct international affairs reality TV-style by not just tweeting, but by using casual American slang to tell Israel to "stay strong" until January 20 when he is sworn in as US President. He also slammed President Barack Obama saying he was preventing a smooth transition.

The US President-elect was referring to last week's setback for Israel when the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) censured Jerusalem for expanding the construction of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The censure was possible thanks largely to the US - or rather, the Obama administration - abstaining, instead of vetoing the resolution like it would normally have done. And the censure went through despite "extraordinary pressure" from Trump, said The New York Times.

Because the Obama administration abstained at the UNSC, Trump tweeted calling it a "roadblock", even though that's what outgoing administrations do - they continue with their policies their way regardless of who is to come after them. In his tweet, Trump, in his unique style, capitalised "NOT!" and put an exclamation point at the end, something that would no doubt make him more relatable to Joe Schmo American.

source:-Timesofindia

Massive preparations underway to commemorate Yoga Day at UN

The headline event will be at the UN headquarters where Swaraj will be joined by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, President of the General Assembly Sam Kutesa, Indian spiritual leader Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and several other diplomats, India's Ambassador to the UN Asoke Mukerji told reporters.

Mukerji said 256 cities in 192 counties, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia will be celebrating the first annual day of Yoga.

“It is estimated that two billion (people) will have participated by the end of June 21 in commemorating the yoga day," across the world with the only exception of conflict-ridden Yemen, Mukerji stated yesterday.

He said Swaraj will reach New York on Saturday and will preside over the two-hour commemoration next day at the world body to be attended by school children from India and the UN International School.

Source:  Online Hindi News 

 

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1,232 killed in Iraq violence in November: UN

The UNAMI said in a statement that 936 civilians were among the victims, including 61 non-militarised police officers and 296 members of the security forces, including Kurdish Peshmerga soldiers and members of militias fighting alongside the Iraqi government.

The statement added that a total of 1,826 civilians were injured, including 71 civilian police officers and 608 members of the Iraqi security forces, militia and Kurdish forces.

In a break-down by provinces, Al Anbar had the highest recorded death toll, with 402 recorded civilian deaths, followed by Baghdad with 332 victims, 74 people slain in Saladin and 37 in Diyala.

"With nearly 12,000 people killed and nearly 22,000 injured since the beginning of 2014, Iraqis continue to be subjected to the unspeakable horrors of killing, maiming, reign of terror, displacement, extreme forms of intolerance and poverty," the statement quoted UN envoy and UNAMI chief Nickolay Mladenov as saying.

"I take this opportunity to go on encouraging Iraq's political, religious and social leaders to act decisively to rise above their differences in order to resolve the pending political, social and economic problems, and restore confidence among Iraq's communities, more particularly its disaffected groups, as part of consolidating the democratic process", he said.

Iraq has been locked in bloody struggle since June with the Sunni radical group Islamic State, which has proclaimed a caliphate in territories under its control in northern Iraq and Syria.

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