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Juba
TV director of the Southern Sudan arrested for not broadcast the president 's speech
wife told state television director for Southern Sudan, told Reuters on Saturday that her husband was arrested because of a speech broadcast live on President Salva Kiir during the long independence celebrations last week. It highlights the arrest of Adel Fares Myat highlighted the continuing harassment of journalists in southern Sudan , which is witnessing a war four years ago between Kiir 's army and the opposition led by former deputy Riek Machar. It was not possible to reach government officials for comment and the telephone calls conducted with the Minister of Information, his deputy and the president 's spokesman has not been answered. CPJ reported that five journalists were killed in 2015 ,
security officials arrested Myat , director of the radio and television in Southern Sudan on the tenth of July because of the lack of a speech broadcast live on President Kiir.
Kiir has delivered a speech on the ninth of July to mark the sixth anniversary of independence. The wife said that Myat decided not to broadcast the speech on the air "to avoid any technical difficulties that may arise during the live broadcast." She added that the authorities considered the decision as a rebellion.
South Sudan separated from Sudan in 2011, but after two years of separation slipped into civil war in December / December 2013 after a long - term political disagreement between Kiir and Machar , who belong to rival ethnic groups.


Tehran ,
Iran holds the responsibility of Trump instability and refuses to describe "rogue state"
threw Iran on Saturday blamed the global security threats to what it called US President Donald Trump 's policies "arbitrary and contradictory" and refused to describe it as a "rogue state." Tension between Iran and the United States since the election of Trump , who often said that Iran is a main backer of the militant groups. The agency quoted the Islamic Republic of Iran for Bahram Ghasemi , spokesman for the Foreign Ministry as saying that he must trump "to attribute the cause of discord and rebellion to his policies and actions arbitrary and contradictory policies, as well as the actions of its allies and arrogant occupiers , the aggressors in the region." Trump said on Thursday that new threats emerge from "rogue regimes such as North Korea, Iran, Syria , and governments funded and supported."


Kabul
killed the commander of «Daesh» in Afghanistan ,
said the US Department of Defense (Pentagon) Friday that the leader of the organization «Islamic State» (Daesh) in Afghanistan, Abu Said was killed in a strike on the organization 's headquarters in Kunar province last Tuesday.
Said a spokeswoman for «Pentagon» Dana White in a statement that other members of the organization were killed
in the raid.
He said US Secretary of Defense James Mattis told reporters that « the importance of this is that you kill the leader of one of these groups and weaken them ... It is a clear victory for us with regard to the weakening of those groups ... it is the right direction».
Abu Saeed is the third leader of the organization in Afghanistan killed since July 2016 and killed the former commander Abdal_husab to Ogarri a joint operation of US and Afghan forces on 27 April, and was killed last year , Hafiz Saeed Khan , an attack drone.
The fighting Afghan forces backed by US warplanes linked militants and special forces to «Daesh» in eastern Afghanistan years ago. The active branch of the organization in Afghanistan named «Islamic state in Khorasan» since 2015 and is fighting «Taliban» and Afghan forces and the US.


Havana ,
Raul Castro denounces the policy of Trump about Cuba
denounced Cuban President Raul Castro on Friday, down US President Donald Trump about the Cuban American rapprochement, saying that he ignored the broad public support to improve relations, and it will satisfy a small number of Cuban - American militants.
In his first public response since the Trump revealed his new policy towards Cuba last month , Castro told the National Assembly that any attempt to overthrow the revolution will fail , as was the case with 11 US former president.
He was quoted by state media about Castro as saying : "We reject the manipulation of the human rights issue against Cuba , which prides itself so much in this area do not need to receive lessons from the United States or any other person."
Trump announced last month that he cancels his predecessor , Barack Obama 's "terrible and misleading" agreement with Cuba. But in fact leaving Trump a lot of changes made by Obama , including the reopening of the US embassy in Havana, but it also ordered to tighten restrictions on the travel of Americans to Cuba launched a campaign against US commercial transactions with the Cuban army.



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