Anadolu Agency

SCIENTISTS FIND EARTH-LIKE PLANET NEAR
SOLAR SYSTEM
SAN FRANCISCO (AA) – Astronomers announced
US OFFERS $27M REWARD FOR INFO ON
AL-SHABAAB LEADERS
IMPRISONED SKOREAN FERRY DISASTER CAPTAIN
LOSES APPEAL
WEATHER
WASHINGTON (AA) - The State Department on
By Alex Jensen SEOUL (AA) - The captain in charge of
Wednesday they have discovered an earth-like planet or-
Wednesday offered a reward of up to $27 million for infor-
a South Korean ferry during a disaster last year in which
Thursday
biting a star relatively near the solar system.
mation that leads to locating six leaders of a Somalia-based
304 people were killed lost his appeal against a life sentence
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militant group.
Thursday. The Supreme Court agreed with a previous rul-
“The U.S. Secretary of State has authorized rewards of up
ing that 70-year-old Lee Jun-seok murdered his passengers
to $6 million for information on the whereabouts of Abu
-- most of whom were students from Gyeonggi Province’s
Friday
Ubaidah (Direye), up to $5 million each for information on
Danwon High School -- by willful negligence when disaster
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Mahad Karate, Ma’alim Daud, and Hassan Afgooye, and up
struck the Sewol on April 16, 2014. Lee’s escape from the
to $3 million each for information ... >WORLD
sinking vessel -- after he had delayed... >WORLD
It’s an exciting find for researchers because they can closely
observe it with a telescope
Dubbed GJ 1132b, the exoplanet – a planet outside our
solar system – is “arguably the most important planet ever
found outside the solar system,” according to commentary
supplementing the report by scientist Drake Deming of
the University of Maryland. >SCIENCE - TECNOLOGY
Kurdish Peshmerga Forces
Advance Against Daesh in Sinjar
Thursday November 12, 2015
OFFICIALS SAY AROUND 7,500 PESHMERGA FORCES ARE PARTICIPATING
IN OPERATION LED BY KURDISH PRESIDENT MASOUD BARZANI
MOSUL, Iraq
Peshmerga forces from Iraq’s Kurdish
region seized control of the governor’s office of Sinjar district Thursday
in an extensive military operation
against Daesh, according to the Kurdistan Democratic Party.
Hemin Hawrami, head of foreign
relations at the party, said on Twitter that the Peshmerga forces clashed
with Daesh in central Sinjar and are
advancing rapidly, taking control of
many villages east of the district in an
extensive operation led by President
Masoud Barzani, who was in the frontlines.
Hawrami added that the forces managed to seize control of a strategic
road that connects Sinjar with Raqqa,
Daesh’s stronghold in Syria.
Officials said around 7,500 Peshmerga
forces are participating in the operation, with air support provided by the
U.S.-led international coalition.
“Peshmerga forces totally purged
Tal al-Shor and Hajji Fadel villages
[25 kilometers in eastern Sinjar] and
found the bodies of seven Daesh militants,” Sherzad Zakholi, a peshmerga
captain, said.
Meanwhile, the official military media wing said that the Peshmerga
forces wrestled control of five villages
from Daesh in Sinjar.
Jamal Eminki, the Iraqi Kurdish region’s chief of staff, told Anadolu
Agency that the Peshmerga forces advanced approximately 10 kilometers
into the area and are gaining ground
in the eastern part of Sinjar.
Turkey Reveals Official
Election Results
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NEW PARLIAMENT TO MEET ON NOV. 17
ANKARA (AA) - Turkey’s Supreme
Elections Committee has revealed the
final, official results of the country’s
Nov. 1 general election.
According to the data, the Justice
and Development (AK) Party secured
49.50 percent of the vote -- a higher
proportion than any of the predictions
by opinion polls -- winning 317 seats
in the 550-member Grand National Assembly.
The Republican People’s Party (CHP)
gained 25.32 percent of the votes (134
seats) while the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) secured 11.90 percent votes (40 seats).
The Peoples’ Democratic Party
(HDP) secured 10.76 percent of the
vote, winning 59 seats.
Committee chairman Sadi Guven
said that out of the 56,949,009 registered voters, 48,537,695 had cast their
ballot, meaning the turnout stood at
85.23 percent.
People in 54 countries voted at 113
voting stations.
Guven also said the election was carried out in a “secure and transparent” way.
According to the Turkish constitution, the General Assembly needs
to gather at 3 p.m. local time [1300
GMT] five days after the announcement of the official results.
for newly elected members will take
place.
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Is the Uk Abandoning Uk Air Force Strikes
Basic Human Rights Daesh Supply Lines
UK MINISTRY OF DEFENSE REVEALS
for Money?
EXTENSIVE BOMBING CAMPAIGN ON
ACCEPTING THE VISITS OF EGYPTIAN
PRESIDENT ABDEL FATTAH EL-SISI AND
CHINESE PREMIER XI JINPING DOES
NOT JIBE WITH BRITISH DEMOCRATIC
VALUES
By Ahmet Gurhan Kartal
LONDON (AA) - ANALYSIS - Six
months after the U.K.’s foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, led a British
delegation of investors to Sharm elSheikh to strengthen relations with
Egypt, the country’s onetime junta
leader and current President Abdel
Fattah el-Sisi -- who is yet to hold a
democratic election -- received the
red-carpet treatment in London last week.
The British business mission in March
succeeded as U.K. oil giant BP was
quick to secure a £7.8 billion ($11.8
billion) investment deal in the Nile delta.
Thousands of people in London protested against Sisi’s visit to the U.K,
as he is known as the architect of one
of the bloodiest coups in this decade.
The country’s first democratically
elected president, Mohamed Morsi,
and hundreds of members of Muslim Brotherhood -- the ruling party
before the military took over -- have
been sentenced to capital punishment
and await their fates in Egypt’s prisons.
Human rights organizations and
NGOs, on the other hand, have been
vocal in criticizing Prime Minister
David Cameron’s Tory government
for receiving a visit from a coup leader
who many see as guilty of gross human rights violations.
Similar protest scenes also took place
on London streets when Chinese
President Xi Jinping visited the British capital in October. Hundreds of
policemen patrolled the highly valued
guest’s route to state banquet held in his honor.
Individuals who reportedly dared to
wave the Tibetan flag as Xi’s convoy
went past were detained by the police.
Security forces also arrested a Tiananmen Square massacre survivor who
tried to protest against the Chinese leader.
During Xi’s visit, Britain managed to
secure business and energy deals with China.
Now some experts are claiming that
the protesters who were trying to be
heard and to make a statement against
human rights violations in China
were not allowed free expression in
a country that describes itself as the
world’s most advanced democracy.
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MAJOR DAESH-HELD ROAD LINKING
MOSUL TO BORDER WITH SYRIA
LONDON
Britain’s air force announced it spent
the past week pounding Daesh positions in northern Iraq ahead of a major Peshmerga offensive launched on
Thursday.
The U.K. Ministry of Defense said
that the Royal Air Force Tornado
and Reaper aircraft had struck Daesh
jor supply route after it seized a part
the road between Mosul and the Iraqi-Syrian border at Sinjar.
RAF jets have conducted air patrols
and strikes against Daesh targets in
Iraq since the autumn of 2014.
The U.K. government has said it
wants to broaden their mission to
cover Daesh in Syria, but such a move
2,545 DAESH SUSPECTS DETAINED SINCE 2013, 584
WERE PUT BEHIND BARS; OF THOSE JAILED, 128
ARE FOREIGNERS
ANKARA (AA) - One third
of suspects detained as alleged
members of the terrorist
group Daesh in Turkey since
2013 are foreigners, according to police sources.
The police officials, who
spoke on condition of anonymity, said a total of 2,545
suspects were detained in anti-terror operations against
Daesh; of those, 810 were foreign nationals.
Turkish security forces detained 230 suspects in 2013;
78 were put behind bars and,
of those, 12 were foreigners,
the police sources said.
In 2014, the number of Daesh
members detained in operations across the country was
615: This included 240 foreigners; 87 of the total were jailed,
and, of those, 21 were foreigners.
In 2015, a total of 1,700 suspected Daesh members were
detained, and this figure included 492 suspects who were
foreign nationals. Of the total, 419 were sent to prison
including 95 foreigners.
The officials did not reveal any details about which
countries the foreign nationals came from.
During the operations, arms
and ammunition were seized:
19 long-barreled arms, 170
hand grenades, 51 handmade explosives, 98 pistols,
84 rifles, 341 kilograms (751
pounds) of explosives, and
18,091 cartridges.
Among the arms were 42
sharp objects, and 50 explosive belts.
BAN KI-MOON TO HOLD
BILATERAL TALKS WITH WORLD
LEADERS INCLUDING TURKEY’S
ERDOGAN, SAYS SPOKESMAN
NEW YORK (AA) - UN
Secretary-General Ban Kimoon will visit Turkey from
Friday to Monday to participate in a G-20 summit and
hold face-to-face talks, his
spokesman said Wednesday.
Stephane Dujarric said Ban
is scheduled to attend working sessions at the summit,
“including on development
and climate change, growth
strategies and employment, as
well as terrorism and the refugee crisis”.
Dujarric said Ban will also
hold bilateral meetings with
world
leaders,
including
Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan.
Leaders of the G-20 major
economies, including the
U.S. Russia, China and Japan,
are to descend on the Mediterranean resort city of Antalya on Sunday and Monday
to discuss global economy at
the tenth annual meeting of
the group.
Turkey, currently holding the
presidency of the group, announced it would focus efforts
during its term on ensuring
inclusive and robust growth
through collective action.
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Police detain 11
suspects in Istanbul
anti-Daesh raids
around the city of Tal Afar and provided support to a Kurdish unit on
the outskirts of Sinjar – both cities on
the main road connecting the major
Daesh-held town of Mosul to the Syrian border.
The RAF also supported coalition air
patrols and strikes over Iraq by providing refueling services, the ministry said in a statement on Thursday.
Earlier in the day, Kurdish forces
claimed to have scored a significant
victory in their battle with Daesh
in northern Iraq by severing a ma-
would have to be approved by the
British parliament and domestic political opinion remains divided over
the move.
UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon
told the Daily Telegraph last weekend
that it was “morally indefensible” for
Britain to be absent from the coalition of countries, including Australia,
France and the United States, currently operating over Syria.
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Turkey: Of Jailed
Daesh Members, 1/3
are Foreigners
Un Chief To
Attend G-20
Summit in Turkey
The Turkish parliament is expected to
have its first session on Nov. 17 during which an oath-taking ceremony
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SUSPECTS WERE REPORTEDLY
PREPARING TO GO TO SYRIA
ISTANBUL (AA) -Turkish
police have detained 11 Daesh
suspects in early-morning
raids in Istanbul.
According to security sources, police on Thursday arrested the suspected militants
-- including seven foreign
nationals -- during separate
operations in several districts
including Bagcilar, Umraniye, Esenler, Silivri and Bahcelievler.
The detainees, who were reportedly preparing to go to
Syria, were taken to Istanbul police headquarters after
health checks.
The operation is ongoing and
the number of suspects detained will increase, police said.
Since July, security forces in
the country have been conducting anti-terrorist operations across Turkey...>MORE DETAILS
The officials also revealed
that the Daesh group has not
claimed responsibility for a
number of attacks in Turkey.
Police, however suspect that
some bomb attacks were carried out by the group in the
country.
The manhunt against Daesh
members escalated after a
Daesh suicide bombing killed
33 people in southeastern
Sanliurfa province on July 20.
Another blast killed more
than 100 people in Ankara on
Oct. 10. >MORE DETAILS
Saudi Fm:
Assad must Go
If Syria Crisis
Is to be Solved
ADEL AL-JUBEIR SAYS A
SOLUTION CANNOT BE
FOUND WITH SYRIAN
LEADER BASHAR AL-ASSAD
IN POWER
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AA)
- Saudi Foreign Minister Adel
al-Jubeir has said that the Syrian
crisis cannot be solved as long
as Bashar al-Assad remained in
power. “The solution to the crisis
in Syria is for Assad to go,” alJubeir told Anadolu Agency on
Wednesday following the conclusion of the 4th Arab-South
American Summit held in the
Saudi capital, Riyadh.
African Leaders
Call For
Climate-Change
Pact At Cop21
STATE DEPT. SPOKESMAN SAYS
LIBERATED TERRITORIES IN
SYRIA SHOULD BE RETURNED
TO DISPLACED PERSONS
By Addis Getachew
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA)
- A group of African leaders,
along with UN experts, have
issued a statement calling for an
agreement on climate change at
the Paris COP21 conference that
would address the continent’s urgent needs to address this issue.
The meeting in Paris is intended to produce an agreement that
will replace the Kyoto Protocol
of Dec. 11, 1997, which currently governs world climate change
efforts.