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WORLD NEWSTuesday 16 February 2016

Cameron arrives in Paris for “Brexit” talks with Hollande

THOMAS ADAMSON European Commission’s some of those welfare ain but it is also concerning this is a fair deal for the 27
RAF CASERT president said that this rights to EU newcomers in the other member states.” other member states.”
Associated Press week’s summit of EU lead- Britain for up to four years European Council Presi- Cameron also met with
PARIS (AP) — British Prime ers to thrash out a deal that has been a focal point of dent Donald Tusk visited Germany’s Angela Merkel
Minister David Cameron would make it easier for criticism. Romania on Monday and on Friday.
met with French Presi- Britain to remain within the “The social welfare system insisted “we cannot and The British leader must hold
dent Francois Hollande on 28-nation bloc will turn into is, of course, at stake,” Eu- will not compromise on a referendum by the end
Monday evening for talks a fight over social welfare ropean Commission Presi- the fundamental freedoms of next year.
aimed at convincing Paris issues. dent Jean-Claude Juncker and values. If a deal is clinched at the
to grant London conces- A generous social welfare said on the eve of a prepa- It is in this spirit that I draft- summit that starts Thursday,
sions ahead of a conten- system has long been at ratory meeting with Cam- ed my proposal for a new he might call a vote as
tious referendum on wheth- the heart of society in con- eron in Brussels. settlement for the U.K. in soon as June.
er the U.K. should leave the tinental Europe and non- “We have to approach the EU.” Romanian Prime Minister
EU — a prospect known as discrimination among EU this question of the social Juncker called the propos- Dacian Ciolos was in Brus-
the “Brexit.” citizens a cornerstone of welfare system with a maxi- als that will be discussed at sels to discuss the issue, say-
The meeting at the Ely- the union. Hence, the insis- mum of prudence,” he the summit as of Thursday ing his country wants Britain
see Palace comes as the tence of Cameron to deny said. “This is concerning Brit- “a fair deal for Britain and to remain in the EU. q

Deadly airstrikes hit hospitals, school in northern Syria

This image taken from video shows Syrian Civil Defense rescuers running from the site of a second truce agreed on Friday in presumed dead.”
explosion near a hospital run by an international medical charity, also known by its French ac- Munich was to begin in “The destruction of the hos-
ronym MSF in Maaret al-Numan, Idlib, Syria, Monday, Feb. 15, 2016. Doctors Without Borders says a week, but there was no pital leaves the local pop-
an attack on a clinic in northern Syria supported by the group has killed several people and that sign that would happen. ulation of around 40,000
more are presumed dead. On Monday, Syrian state TV people without access to
reported that pro-govern- medical services in an ac-
(Maara Media Center,via AP Video) ment forces have entered tive zone of conflict,” said
the northern town of Tel Ri- MSF mission chief Massimil-
BASSEM MROUE ing dozens of civilians and days after Russia and oth- faat, where they were fight- iano Rebaudengo.
Associated Press further dimming hopes for er world powers agreed ing “fierce battles” against The Britain-based Syr-
BEIRUT (AP) — Airstrikes a temporary truce, as gov- to bring about a pause in insurgents. Tel Rifaat is a ian Observatory for Human
blamed on Russia hit at ernment troops backed by fighting that would allow major stronghold of mili- Rights said Russian war-
least two hospitals and a Russian warplanes pressed for the delivery of humani- tants fighting to overthrow planes targeted the hospi-
school in northern Syria on a major offensive north of tarian aid and the revival of President Bashar Assad. tal, destroying it and killing
Monday, killing and wound- Aleppo.The raids came peace talks. The projected Capturing Tel Rifaat would nine people. The opposi-
bring government forces tion group, which tracks
closer to their target of both sides of the conflict
Azaz, near the Turkish bor- through sources on the
der. In Idlib province, an ground, said dozens were
airstrike destroyed a make- wounded in the attack.
shift clinic supported by “The entire building has
Doctors Without Borders. collapsed on the ground,”
The international charity, said opposition activist Ya-
also known by its French hya al-Sobeih, speaking
acronym MSF, said the hos- by phone from Maaret al-
pital in the town of Maaret Numan. He said five peo-
al-Numan was hit four times ple were killed near the
in attacks that were min- MSF clinic and “all mem-
utes apart. It said seven bers of the medical team
people were killed and inside are believed to be
eight others were “missing, dead.”q

Car bomb kills 2 police, wounds 19 in Russia’s Dagestan

ARSEN MOLLAYEV carried out by a man who The suspected attacker ter two separatist wars in ing fighters usually land in
spent time in Syria, said Ra- was tentatively identified neighboring Chechnya. jail or are kept under close
Associated Press sul Temirbekov, spokesman as a 23-year-old man who For more than a decade, police surveillance, there
for the Dagestani branch had studied in the southern Dagestan has seen bomb- have been concerns that
MAKHACHKALA, Rus- of the federal Investigative Russian city of Astrakhan ings, attacks on police and the presence of radical
Committee. and spent time in Syria and kidnappings blamed on Muslims trained in IS war-
sia (AP) — A powerful car The explosion, set off by Turkey, Temirbekov said. A the Islamic militants. fare could lead to greater
two 122 mm shells, de- search of his father’s home In recent years, many of the instability and violence.
bomb exploded Monday stroyed the Russian-made in Derbent turned up ma- militants have proclaimed “Those who went to fight
Lada Priori and four other terials confirming the sus- allegiance to IS, while at in Syria are now returning
at a police checkpoint in vehicles parked at the po- pect’s allegiance to the the same time the repub- to the republic and con-
lice post near Derbent, he Islamic State and past trav- lic has grown markedly less tinuing to do the same
Russia’s Dagestan republic, said. All that remained of els, he said. violent as hundreds of them things — to bomb and kill,”
the Lada’s driver were frag- Dagestan has become the have left to join the IS in Syr- Dagestan’s regional lead-
killing two officers and the ments of his head, hands center of an Islamic insur- ia. Some are now coming er, Abdusamad Gamidov,
and feet, the spokesman gency that spread across home with battlefield ex- told members of his admin-
car’s driver and wounding said. the Caucasus region af- perience. While the return- istration on Monday.q

19 others, in what appears

to have been a suicide at-

tack, investigators said.

The attack was believed to

have been organized by

Islamic militants who have

sworn allegiance to the

Islamic State group and