Anonymous ID: f41dd8 April 14, 2019, 7:25 a.m. No.6174174   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4205 >>4212 >>4220 >>4234 >>4515 >>4575

http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/world/more-than-120-killed-as-libya-s-rivals-battle-for-tripoli/article/547588

 

On Sunday, the UN mission in Libya warned that international humanitarian law "prohibits the bombing of schools, hospitals, ambulances and civilian areas".

The mission warned that it would document all breaches in order to inform the UN Security Council and the International Criminal Court.

 

GNA spokesman Mohamed Gnounou said his forces had carries out 21 air strikes targeting LNA positions and supply lines between Friday and Saturday.

Gnounou late on Saturday claimed "great advances on all fronts", including in Al-Aziziya, a city about 50 kilometres south of Tripoli.

"We have not started this war," he said, "but we will decide the time and place of its end."

 

On the LNA's side meanwhile, spokesman Ahmad al-Mesmari said the attacking forces were also "moving forward on all fronts".

He reiterated his claim that "terrorists" and "criminals" were fighting on the side of the UN-backed GNA forces.

"The decision is no longer in Sarraj's hands," he said. "It is in the hands of terrorists now."

The European Union expressed its "concern" on Thursday at the involvement of "terrorist and criminal elements" in the fighting.

 

Libya spinning out of control

Anonymous ID: f41dd8 April 14, 2019, 8:02 a.m. No.6174403   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4453

https://www.rt.com/usa/456487-facebook-shareholders-moving-against-zuckerberg/

Facebook’s shareholders are gearing up for a fresh attempt to oust its founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg as chairman, as well as shake up the company’s governance, in the wake of “severe controversies” for the social network.

Documents filed by Facebook to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on April 12 outline the schedule of business for the company’s annual shareholder meeting at the end of next month, and include eight shareholder proposals. One of these calls for replacing Zuckerberg as company chair with a new independent member, so as to clearly separate the roles of company chair and CEO.

In the filing, stockholders complain that Zuckerberg holds about 60 percent of Facebook's voting shares, meaning the board has “only a limited ability to check Mr Zuckerberg’s power.”

“We believe this weakens Facebook’s governance and oversight of management,” they continue, adding that this has resulted in the company “missing, or mishandling, a number of severe controversies” including Cambridge Analytica’s access to user data and the “proliferation of fake news.” Facebook’s share price has had a rough ride in the wake of the series of scandals.

In its response, Facebook said the board believes “that the most effective leadership model is that Mr Zuckerberg, our founder and controlling stockholder, serves as both chairman and CEO,” and that “implementing the proposal is unnecessary.”

Anonymous ID: f41dd8 April 14, 2019, 8:24 a.m. No.6174568   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4573

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/lindsey-graham-prepping-legislative-package-to-change-asylum-laws

Sen. Lindsey Graham plans to introduce a legislative package that would change the country’s asylum laws in an effort to stem the influx of migrants crossing the southern border.

“Doing what we’re doing is not working,” Graham said. “The crisis has to come to an end and the only way to bring it to an end is to change our laws.”

In addition to altering the asylum laws, Graham raised issues with the 1997 Flores settlement, which prohibits the federal government from holding children in family detention centers for more than 20 days.

He also cited a “cork” in a federal trafficking law that prohibits immigration authorities from sending migrant children back to non-contiguous countries.

“So the only place that we can send a child back is to Mexico and Canada,” Graham said. “We need to be sending these kids back to Central America where they come from.”