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TRTWorld - World in Two Minutes, 2015, April 29, 07:00 GMT

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Channel: TRT World · 2015 · News & Politics

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AIR STRIKES SANAA
Saudi-led coalition force war jets have destroyed the runway of Yemen’s Sanaa airport to prevent an Iranian plane from landing. This comes as fighting across the country killed at least thirty people. Yemeni Vice President Khaled Bahah had called on the Iranian-backed Shiite Houthis to heed a UN Security Council demand to end fighting,

BALTIMORE CURFEW ENFORCED
Protesters in Baltimore, Maryland looted shops and burned buildings following the funeral of a 25-year-old black man, Freddie Gray. Gray died of spinal injuries sustained during police arrest. Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake had avoided requesting the National Guard until three hours after violence first began. Rawlings-Blake imposed a one-week curfew starting on Tuesday. Police and National Guard troops have begun enforcing the city wide curfew.  Curfew started at 10pm local time. Police ordered several hundred protesters who were still on the streets, to disperse.

NIGERIA GIRLS RESCUED
The Nigerian army has announced that 2 hundred girls and 93 women were rescued from Boko Haram fighters in the northeastern Sambisa Forest. Boko Haram kidnapped more than 2 hundred school girls from Chibok in northeastern Nigeria in April 2014. The army hasn't confirmed yet whether the group includes Chibok girls. Three militant camps were also destroyed during the rescue operation.

ABBOTT RECALLS AMBASSADOR 
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has recalled the country’s ambassador to Indonesia. Indonesia has executed two  Australian citizens and six others convicted of drug trafficking charges in 2005. Abbott described the executions as ‘cruel and unnecessary’. He said Australia respects Indonesia’s sovereignty, but ‘deplores’ the executions. He stated that relations between Australia and Indonesia have suffered as a result of  the executions. 

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