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France says will send weapons to Iraq

Saturday, 23 July 2016 5:14 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 23 July 2016 5:15 AM ]

French President Francois Hollande makes a statement at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris on July 22, 2016, after holding a meeting with security officials during the fourth defence council since the Bastille Day attacks in Nice. (AFP)

Here is a round-up of global news developments:

At least nine people have been killed in a shooting spree at a shopping mall in Germany’s southern city of Munich. Police say the motive of the attacker is unclear. 21 others were also wounded in the incident, with three of them in critical condition.
Police in France have dismantled a makeshift camp in northern Paris, used by nearly 3,000 refugees. The asylum-seekers, most of them from Eritrea, Somalia, and Afghanistan, were forced to leave the dingy camp. French police have conducted 26 such operation this year.
French President Francois Hollande has said his country will send heavy weapons to Iraq to be used against Daesh terrorists in the wake of the terrorist attack in Nice. He added that Paris will not deploy troops in Iraq and Syria but will offer military advice to its forces in the two countries.
Turkey has arrested 283 members of the presidential guard after last week's failed coup attempt. The detainees are members of the Special Forces regiment stationed at the presidential palace in Ankara. Tens of thousands of people, including senior officials in the army, have been sacked or arrested since then.
US Republican presidential Candidate Donald Trump's campaign alleges that Democratic rival Hillary Clinton has picked a corrupt official for vice president. The campaign has nicknamed Virginia Senator Tim Kaine “Corrupt Kaine” citing a report that he accepted 160,000 dollars in gifts from 2001 to 2009 when he was Virginia’s governor.
Bahraini people have staged a new anti-regime rally against the continued crackdown on dissent in the Persian Gulf kingdom. The protesters slammed the government’s decision to revoke the citizenship of the country’s top Shia cleric Sheikh Isa Qassim, and called for the immediate release of all political prisoners.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has dismissed allegations leveled by Bahrain’s Interior Ministry against Tehran. Qassemi urged Bahraini officials to avoid playing the blame game and buck-passing. Manama had previously claimed that it dismantled an Iranian-linked cell plotting attacks on its territory.
The UN refugee agency says an estimated 26,000 South Sudanese refugees have crossed into Uganda following the recent fighting and political tensions in their country. Flocks of South Sudanese, many of them women and children, are still fleeing their homes amid a shaky cease-fire in the capital, Juba.