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Trump to Cease Reporting Drone Deaths

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03/07/2019

03/07/2019

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Trump to Cease Reporting Drone Deaths

Top News: U.S. President Donald Trump has revoked a 2016 Obama-era executive order which required intelligence officials to publish the number of civilians killed in drone strikes outside of designated war zones, in places such as Libya, Yemen, and Pakistan.

The requirements were a bid to increase transparency around drone strikes, which increased ten-fold under Barack Obama. U.S. President Donald Trump looks to be on course to exceed that, launching substantially more drone strikes than Obama did in his first two years in office.

The Trump administration described the rule as “superfluous” and “distracting.”

France: A French court has found the Roman Catholic archbishop of Lyon guilty of failing to act on reports of sexual abuse of boy scouts in his diocese, and was give a six-month suspended jail sentence. Cardinal Philippe Barbarin is the highest profile cleric to be caught up in the Catholic Church’s child abuse scandal in France.

AFRICA

•  Kenya’s flower industry is nervously eyeing Brexit. The United Kingdom is Kenya’s second biggest flower export market. The industry accounts for over 1 percent of the country’s entire GDP.

•  After weeks of failed talks following an election widely believed to be fraudulent, the newly-elected President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Felix Tshisekedi, has been urged to enter a power-sharing agreement with his predecessor, Joseph Kabila.

•  Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) has warned that the battle against Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is being lost because of an overly-militarized response which is alienating patients and their families.

AMERICAS

•  In the United States, Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort is to be sentenced today after being found guilty of bank and tax fraud. The 69-year-old could receive up to 20 years in prison but a number of observers expect he will receive less than that.

•  Memos obtained by the Associated Press reveal that border agents have been instructed to return to Mexico all Spanish speakers and Latin American migrants who have crossed the border until their cases are processed, marking a significant shift in the U.S. government’s handling of immigration and asylum cases on the southern border.

•  Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg outlined a plans to make the social network more privacy friendly, including a move towards end-to-end messaging encryption.

ASIA

•  Chinese telecom giant Huawei announced plans to sue the U.S. government over a ban on using its products.

•  South Korea’s military said on Thursday that it is closely monitoring North Korea’s nuclear and missile facilities after new activity was detected.

•  A  number of explosions hit a memorial ceremony in Kabul,  which was attended by Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and former President Hamid Karzai. The two men were not hurt in the attack which is thought to have killed at least three other people and injured dozens.

EUROPE

•  Russia has passed a new law which imposes steep penalties for spreading fake news online and disrespecting the authorities, including President Vladimir Putin. Repeat offenders can face 15 days of imprisonment.

•  France has unveiled new plans for a tax on large technology companies including Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon. Dubbed a "tax of the 21st century,” the levy is expected to bring in 500 million euros ($565 million) per year.

•  Germany’s Ambassador to Venezuela has been deemed persona non grata by the embattled government of President Nicolás Maduro and accused of meddling in the country’s domestic affairs.

MIDDLE EAST

•  Lawyers representing a group of Syrian refugees in Lebanon have asked the International Criminal Court to investigate Syria for alleged crimes against humanity.

•  The cat man of Aleppo, Syria, has returned.

•  A new report by Human Rights Watch alleges that children with suspected links to the Islamic State are being tortured to force confessions by federal and Kurdish authorities in Iraq.

- By Amy Mackinnon

(PEDRO UGARTE/AFP/Getty Images)

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