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June 6, 2018
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2018-06-06
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Syrian Civil War
The
Syrian government
re-opens the
Homs
–
Hama
highway after it was closed for seven years.
(Reuters)
Iraqi insurgency (2017–present)
At least 18 people are killed by twin explosions in a weapons depot in a mosque in
Sadr City
,
Baghdad
.
(Belga via
Het Laatste Nieuws
)
Health and environment
Food safety in Australia
A woman in
Australia
is reported dead from
hepatitis
after consuming frozen
pomegranate
. Health authorities have stated that 24 such cases were related to products by Entyce Food Ingredients.
(BBC)
International relations
European migrant crisis
400 migrants try to scale the
Ceuta border fence
, with most of them repelled. It is the first such incident in seven months.
(
The News Guru
)
JCPOA
The
European Commission
proposes to implement two measures by August, designed to counter the US exit from the agreement with
Iran
. These would extend the EU
blocking statute
and allow an extension of the
European Investment Bank
mandate.
(Belga via
HBVL
)
Law and crime
Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal
Alexander Nix
, the head of
Cambridge Analytica
, faces questions from
British
MPs regarding the company's use of data.
(BBC)
In Peru, four policemen die in a terrorist ambush when the vehicle in which they were moving was attacked with explosives on a highway of the
Anco district
,
Huancavelica Department
.
(
La República
)
(
El Comercio
)
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