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26 sunday, 12 May 2019- edited by Ilaria
Saltarelli and Martina Paterna
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41st
Congress of the Nonviolent Radical Party,
Transnational and Transparty (NRPTT) will be held
in Rome from 5 to 7 July 2019 at Auditorium
Antonianum (viale Manzoni 1) beginning on Friday
5th July at 11 am.
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Maurizio
Bolognetti, Presidency of the Radical Party, has
reached the 74th day of the hunger strike for
Radio Radicale and Rita Bernardini, Presidency of
the Radical Party, has reached the 32nd day.
About
200 citizens participate in the non-violent
initiative with a few days of hunger strike for
the life of Radio Radicale.
Here the form to join
the hunger strike and the complete
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Brunei’s
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah on Sunday extended a
moratorium on the death penalty to incoming
legislation prohibiting gay sex.
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The
United States increased its tariffs on Chinese
goods from 10% to 25% at 12:01 a.m. on Friday,
while a Chinese delegation led by the country's
top trade negotiator, Vice Premier Liu He, arrived
in Washington on Thursday for the latest round of
discussions.
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The
Turkish Supreme Election Council (YSK) has
accepted the ruling Justice and Development
Party’s (AKP) objection to the results of the
mayoral election in Istanbul of March 31 and has
decided a rerun of the race for mayor of Istanbul
won by the opposition’s candidate Ekrem
İmamoğlu.
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President
Hassan Rouhani declared on Wednesday that his
country would no longer abide by some of its
commitments in the nuclear committment JCPoA
(Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action), exactly one
year after Trump's announcement of termination of
US participation in the agreement and after the
introduction of US sanctions that are putting
a strain on the Iranian economy. He added
that if any conclusion is not reached, Iran will
resume enriching uranium and will not follow
obligations under the JCPOA according to which its
uranium enrichment should not exceed the purity
level of 3.67 percent. In a press release, US
Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo has reiterated the
US commitment to continue to impose “maximum
pressure on the regime until it abandons its
destabilizing ambitions”.
Jointly statement
by High Representative of the European Union
Federica Mogherini and the Foreign Ministers of
France, Germany and the United Kingdom expressed
its concern and reiterated its commitment to the
full implementation of the
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Total
world military expenditure rose to $1822 billion
in 2018, representing an increase of 2.6 per cent
from 2017, according to new data from the
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
(SIPRI). The five biggest spenders in 2018 were
the United States, China, Saudi Arabia, India and
France, which together accounted for 60 per cent
of global military spending.
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