EU RENEWS ITS SANCTIONS REGIME AGAINST ISIL DAESH AND AL QAEDA UNTIL OCT 2021

RELATED TO TERRORIST LIST

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris, Washington DC, 10/23/2020, 16:29 Time

USPA NEWS - The Council today renewed the EU sanctions regime against ISIL/Da'esh and Al-Qaida and the related list of people subject to restrictive measures for another year until 31 October 2021. The decision was taken in light of the ongoing terrorist threat.
EU sanctions consist of a travel ban to the EU and an asset freeze for individuals, and an asset freeze for groups and entities. In addition, EU persons and entities are forbidden from making funds and economic resources available to those listed.
Five individuals are currently subject to restrictive measures. The EU has been able to autonomously adopt restrictive measures against ISIL (Da'esh) and Al-Qaeda, and persons, groups, undertakings and entities associated with them, since September 2016. The EU regime is independent from, but complementary to, the regime allowing for sanctions to be adopted at the UN level.
The relevant legal act will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 20 October 2020.

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AFRICAN UNION MEMBER STATES REPORTING 1,644,780 COVID-19 CASES AND 39,738 DEATHS

AS OF 19 OCTOBER 2020

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris, Washington DC, 10/23/2020, 15:59 Time

USPA NEWS - African Union Member States (54) reporting COVID-19 cases (1,644,780) deaths (39,738), and recoveries (1,356,239) by region. Here are the updates of the COVID-19 figures cases, in the different geograohical regions, of the fifty four African countries, Member states of the African Union. Source : Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).

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PRESIDENTS OF FRENCH REGIONS ADOPT THE MOTION TO CONTINUE SESSION OF PARLIAMENT

IN STRASBOURG ON 18 OCTOBER 20

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris, Washington DC, 10/23/2020, 15:50 Time

USPA NEWS - The Council of the Regions of October 18, 2020 has doped the motion to maintain the sessions of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Indeed, since March 2020, the plenary sessions of the European Parliament have not been held at the seat of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Seven plenary sessions of the European Parliament were missing in Strasbourg, the European capital.

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PDT MACRON PAID A NATIONAL TRIBUTE TO SAMUEL PATY IN A SOLEMN AND SOBER CEREMONY

AT LA SORBONNE IN THE NAME OF REPUBLIC

Responsible Author: Jedi Foster P/O Rahma Sophia Rachdi | Paris, Washington DC, 10/22/2020, 01:29 Time

USPA NEWS - The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron paid a national tribute to Samuel Paty, the professor of history, of the college of Aune du Bois, who was beheaded by a terrorist on October 16 in Conflans. This ceremony, very short (30 minutes, just before departure from curfew at 9:00 p.m.) which took place five days after the murder tragedy, began with three speeches, by the best friend of the deceased, Christophe Capuo, who reads the letter from Albert Camus thanking his teacher Louis Germain, when he received the nobel prize for literature. Without you, without this loving hand that you extended to the poor child that I am, none of this would be done ”. A moving poem was proclaimed by a history teacher at Lycee Jules Ferry, Marie Curio, "we do not get used to killing, to this barbarism" and finally a young student Dahlia Leveke from the Lycee Masillon, Paris 4th, a text also in homage to the professor murdered, by a terrorist, for showing caricatures of the prophet Muhammad to his students, The ceremony which was organized by the family alongside, of the President of the Republic, began with the entrance of the coffin, carried by eight soldiers to the tunes of the U2 song,

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