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February 27, 2020
US urges India to allow peaceful assembly after riots
WASHINGTON — The United States on Thursday urged India to respect the right to peaceful assembly and called on all sides to refrain from violence after sectarian riots in Delhi killed at least 33 people.In a cautious statement, the top US diplomat for South Asia sought to show little distance with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was welcoming President Donald Trump on a visit when the violence erupted."We echo (Modi's) ...
February 27, 2020
New Tunisia govt sworn in after winning confidence vote
TUNIS — Tunisia's new government was sworn in Thursday after winning a parliamentary confidence vote that broke four months of post-election deadlock.Prime Minister Elyes Fakhfakh, thirty ministers and two secretaries of state were sworn-in during a ceremony at the presidential palace, over a month after Fakhfakh was designated premier by President Kais Saied.A previous Cabinet list put forward by Fakhfakh was rejected earlier in February by the Islamist-inspired party Ennahdha, ...
February 27, 2020
WHO says virus at 'decisive point' as world battles spread
GENEVA — The World Health Organization declared Thursday that the new coronavirus epidemic was at a "decisive point" as countries across the globe battled to contain the deadly outbreak.Saudi Arabia banned pilgrims from visiting Islam's holiest sites as the number of deaths jumped in neighboring Iran, while Japan and Iraq ordered the closure of schools.Alarm is growing as China is no longer the only breeding ground for COVID-19, with other ...
February 27, 2020
Days before poll, Israel approves nearly 1,800 new settler homes: Minister
JERUSALEM — Israel approved nearly 1,800 new homes in settlements in the occupied West Bank Thursday, the country's right-wing Defense Minister announced, four days ahead of a general election.The ministry said a planning committee "approved the construction of 1,800 housing units, according to the proposal of the Minister of Defense Naftali Bennett", in a statement that quoted figures adding up to slightly below this amount."We don't wait, we act. We ...
February 27, 2020
France asks Sri Lanka to honor UN pledges on rights
COLOMBO — France Thursday asked Sri Lanka to end impunity and ensure ethnic reconciliation a day after Colombo withdrew from a United Nations resolution investigating alleged atrocities during its decades-long separatist war.A top French diplomat said Colombo could not wish away the 2015 Human Rights Council resolution which the previous Sri Lankan administration co-sponsored with the unanimous support of UN's rights body."Sri Lanka's decision to withdraw from the co-sponsorship of ...
February 27, 2020
France slams 'unacceptable' claims against troops by Mali
PAU, France — France on Thursday dismissed as "not only false but also unacceptable" claims by Mali of rowdy behavior by French soldiers stationed in the West African nation to help it combat an insurgency.Making such allegations while French troops are risking their lives to protect citizens was "indecent," Defense Minister Florence Parly's office said in a statement sent to AFP."Rather than channeling and spreading false accusations, we expect the ...
February 27, 2020
African Union preparing 3,000-troop deployment to Sahel
ADDIS ABABA — The African Union said Thursday that it expected to send a temporary deployment of 3,000 troops to West Africa's Sahel region, where regional forces are struggling to respond to a nearly eight-year-old insurgency by armed insurgents.The decision was made at the African Union summit earlier this month, Smail Chergui, head of the AU's Peace and Security Commission said, but the announcement was not made until a press ...
February 27, 2020
Arab Israeli leader makes Trump plan election target
HAIFA, Israel — Leading Israeli Arab politician Ayman Odeh has made US President Donald Trump and his controversial peace plan the main target of his campaign for Tuesday's general election."We have an opportunity to defeat the Trump plan in these elections," said Ayman Odeh, head of the mainly Arab Joint List, the third largest in Israel's outgoing parliament.Odeh, 45 is heading a mishmash coalition of parties — including Islamists and ...
February 27, 2020
In Lebanon, migrant workers hit by financial crisis
BEIRUT — Eighteen-year-old domestic worker Mary came to Lebanon to help support her family, but now a financial crisis is preventing her from sending money home to Ethiopia.A crippling liquidity crunch in the Mediterranean country has drastically limited access to dollars, and tens of thousands of migrant workers toiling for remittances in the hard currency are suffering the backlash.On a recent Sunday, Mary strolled down a bustling street in the ...
February 27, 2020
Climate campaigners win appeal to block new Heathrow runway
LONDON — Britain's Court of Appeal on Thursday ruled in favour of green campaigners who oppose the building of a third runway at London's Heathrow airport, Europe's busiest.The court said the UK government — which in 2018 approved the Heathrow extension — had failed to take into account its commitments to the Paris Agreement to limit climate warming.The legal action against the approval was brought by various London councils, environmental ...
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