led naval mission to secure the strait of hormuz foreign minister hark omar said his country wants to avoid a further escalation of tensions in the region washington had asked germany to join france and britain in a mission to secure shipping through the strait of. russia. has deployed its military to fight forest fires in siberia and the country's far east the inferno is having golf nearly 30000 square kilometers an area the size of belgium experts say the places were caused by thunderstorms during abnormally high temperatures and were later spread by strong winds. italy has allowed more than 100 migrants to disembark from a coast guard ship that had been docked in sicily for 5 days the move follows a deal with 5 european countries to take in the migrants who were rescued from the mediterranean a week ago several people were evacuated earlier on humanitarian grounds. the african union's mediator for sudan has condemned the killing of 4 student opposition protesters earlier this week and called for a speedy trial for those responsible demonstrators took to the streets of the city of b