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US government goes into first shutdown in five years after Senate vote

January 21, 2018 By administrator

Senate Democrats and Republicans have failed to reach a compromise on a short-term funding measure. The partial shutdown comes on the first anniversary of US President Donald Trump’s inauguration.

The US government shut down on Saturday after the Senate failed to pass a procedural vote on a stopgap budget to fund the government.

Most Democrats and some Republicans voted against ending debate and advancing to a vote on a short-term bill to fund the government for the next month in a late-night vote on a House-passed plan.

The failure of the motion means that President Donald Trump will mark exactly one year since taking office with the first shuttered government in five years.

The Republicans, who control the White House and both chambers of Congress, looked set to bear the brunt of responsibility for the shutdown even as they sought to pin blame on Democratic obstructionism.

The vote failed 49 to 50. Sixty votes were needed to proceed to a vote on the House bill.

Republicans were asking for a four-week stopgap funding measure to keep the government running.

Democrats, who are seeking to capitalize on any Republican failings during a mid-term election year, may also be faulted after they wouldn’t budge on demands to protect from deportation some 700,000 “Dreamers” who came to the country illegally as children. They sought an even shorter funding measure in order to maintain pressure over immigration issues.

Following the vote, Trump blamed the Democrats for the shutdown, saying they were more interested in protecting illegal immigrants than in national security.

The White House said it would not negotiate with the Democrats on immigration until the shutdown ended.

“The president will not negotiate on immigration reform until Democrats stop playing games and reopen the government,” Sarah Sanders said on Saturday.

Likely minimal impact

A Washington Post-ABC poll conducted before Friday’s 11th-hour vote found that 48 percent of respondents faulted Trump and Republicans, compared to 28 percent who blamed Democrats.

“As for who gets the blame, people have tended to blame Congress over the president, but given that Republicans control both, it’s likely that they will get almost all of the blame,” Phil Klinkner, a professor of government at Hamilton College, told DW. “As for long-term effects, there probably won’t be much other than reinforcing the notion that Trump and congressional Republicans are pretty ineffective.”

It was unclear for how long the federal government would shut down. The last shutdown in 2013 lasted 16 days.

White House budget director Mick Mulvaney told reporters before the failed vote that “there’s a really good chance it gets fixed” before government offices open again on Monday.

A short-term government shutdown will likely have minimal impact, especially if only over a weekend.

US federal services and any military operations that are considered essential will go on, but thousands of government workers are set to be furloughed if no deal is reached before Monday.

tj,cw/jlw (AFP, AP, dpa)

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: shutdown, Washington

Breaking News: US-Led Coalition Shoots Down Syrian Army Aircraft – Reports

June 18, 2017 By administrator

U.S. jet shutdown Syrian JetUS-led anti-terrorist coalition has reportedly shot down a Syrian government forces’ aircraft.

Syrian Arab Army announced that the US-led anti-terrorist coalition had brought down its aircraft in southern Raqqa countryside, Syrian media reported citing a statement by the Syrian Defence Ministry.

According to the report, the Syrian jet fighter was carrying out military tasks fighting Daesh terrorist organization.

“Our aircraft was downed at lunch time today near the [Syrian] city of Raqqa, when it was fulfilling its mission against the IS,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that the US-led coalition was responsible for downing the aircraft.

The ministry noted that the coalition’s “actions are aimed at halting the Syrian army and its allies in the fight against terrorism, whereas our army and allies make great progress.”

According to the ministry, the pilot of the aircraft has not been found to date.

This is not the first time the US-led coalition’s activities in Raqqa cause casualties. Syrian media reported earlier that at least 43 civilians were killed as a result of the US-led coalition airstrike in the region. The Syrian Foreign Ministry condemned the airstrikes and sent two letters the UN secretary general and the head of the UN Security Council, in which the coalition’s actions were compared to Daesh crimes. Just a few days later, the Lebanese media reported that the coalition’s airstrikes killed more than 30 civilians more near Raqqa.

Raqqa has been under the control of Daesh since 2013, and is the de-facto capital of the self-proclaimed Daesh caliphate. The operation to retake Raqqa, conducted by a coalition consisting of almost 70 countries, has been on-going since November 2016. The strikes in Syria are not authorized by the UN Security Council or the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: aircraft, Army, shutdown, Syrian, U.S

Iraqi Kurdish authorities shut down NRT, KNN TV offices in Erbil, Duhok

October 11, 2015 By administrator

450x360xCameraman-photo-123rf-com.jpg.pagespeed.ic._ELlkhNJp9ERBIL-Hewler, Kurdistan region ‘Iraq’,— A statement from the Nalia Media Corporation on Saturday said that a group of armed personnel claiming to be local security forces (Asayish) broke in to NRT’s office on late Saturday in Kurdistan capital city of Erbil, arrested staff members and closed down the office. NRT’s staff was later released and forced to leave Erbil from the Degala checkpoint.

Later another group of the security forces in Duhok broke in to NRT’s office in that city, taking control and closing it down.

NRT is the only independent Kurdish satellite TV channel in Iraqi Kurdistan region.

Also security force closed three offices of KNN satellite channel close to Change (Gorran) Movement in Erbil and Dohuk cities and Soran district.

The representative of Press Freedom Advocacy in Iraq Association said that other security forces closed offices of KNN channel in each of Erbil, Dohuk and Soran, and deported Erbil offices’ team who are three people to Sulaimani city after they were detained for a short period, and then took them to police station of Dekla area, and deported them.

He said that the police force stopped the Channel team in Erbil on Saturday afternoon before their detention, while covering a demonstration by a number of citizens demanding the payment of overdue salaries, confiscated their tapes and took them away from the place of the demonstration.

The crackdown on the media comes after thousands of people demonstrated in Iraqi Kurdish city of Sulaimani province, Kalar district near Erbil and in several other towns Saturday, demanding that KDP leader Massoud Barzani whose presidency ended on August 20, to step down.

Barzani’s mandate expired in August and political talks over his succession have failed.  The 69-year-old leader has held the presidency since 2005.

Barzani has been accused by critics of amassing huge wealth for his family instead of serving the population.

Nalia Media Corporation believes that the security and safety of its journalists and other employees in Barzani led KDP-controlled areas are the responsibility of police and security forces in Erbil and Duhok.

The Channel also demand an explanation from the Kurdistan Regional Government KRG on these unlawful and uncivil actions by the Asayish against our channel and our journalists.

NRT TV is the only independent satellite channel in the Kurdish region. It is a window for people in Kurdistan – a balanced perspective through which the Kurdish people can observe events in the region – and shutting it down is like blindfolding the people of Kurdistan. This is the beginning of hiding the truth of what is going on in areas of Kurdistan controlled by KDP.

The Kurdish TV asks the representatives of foreign countries in Kurdistan, all organizations and political parties, and the people of Kurdistan to raise their voices against these abuses.

Source: eKurd

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Iraq, kurdisstan, media, shutdown

Turkish spy plane shot down near Iraqi-Turkish border, says PKK

September 8, 2015 By administrator

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Archival photo.

By Amre Sarhan,

(IraqiNews.com) The armed wing of the of the PKK announced on Tuesday shooting down a Turkish spy plane near the border with Iraq in the second incident in a week.

A spokesman for the PKK Bakhtiar Dogan in an interview with IraqiNews.com, “The PKK shot down, today, a spy plane in Metin area on the Iraqi-Turkey border,” pointing out that, “The plane was flying over the skies under the control of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party forces.”

Dogan added, “The plane, which was shot down, is Turkish-made aircraft.”

 

Source: IraqiNews

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: PKK, plane, shutdown, spy, Turkey

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