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October 19, 2019
Lebanon roils as anger still boils
BEIRUT — Thousands of demonstrators poured into Lebanon's streets on Saturday for a third day of anti-government protests, directing growing rage at a political elite they blame for driving the country to the economic brink.In central Beirut, the mood was fiery and festive with protesters of all ages waving flags and chanting for revolution outside upmarket retailers and banks that had their storefronts smashed in by some rogue rioters the ...
October 19, 2019
Turkey to resume offensive if truce deal falters: Erdogan
ANKARA — President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey would press on with its offensive into northeastern Syria and "crush the heads of terrorists" if a deal with Washington on the withdrawal of Kurdish fighters from the area were not fully implemented.Erdogan agreed on Thursday in talks with US Vice President Mike Pence a five-day pause in the offensive to allow time for the Kurdish fighters to withdraw from a ...
October 19, 2019
Demonstrators again fill Lebanon's streets
BEIRUT — Thousands of demonstrators poured into Lebanon's streets on Saturday for a third day of anti-government protests, directing growing rage at a political elite they blame for driving the country to the economic brink.In central Beirut, the mood was fiery and festive with protesters of all ages waving flags and chanting for revolution outside upmarket retailers and banks that had their storefronts smashed in by some rogue rioters the ...
October 19, 2019
Egypt unveils rare trove of coffins excavated in Luxor
LUXOR — Egypt revealed Saturday a rare trove of 30 ancient wooden coffins that have been well-preserved over millennia in the archeologically rich Valley of the Kings in Luxor.The antiquities ministry officially unveiled the discovery made at Asasif, a necropolis on the west bank of the Nile River, at a press conference against the backdrop of the Hatshepsut Temple."This is the first discovery in Asasif by dedicated Egyptian hands, comprised ...
October 18, 2019
Israeli forces shoot dead Palestinian at West Bank checkpoint
JERUSALEM — Israeli forces shot a Palestinian who ran towards them with a knife near a military checkpoint in the occupied West Bank on Friday, Israel's defense ministry said, and Palestinian officials said he died of his injury.Israel's defense ministry said a Palestinian man ran toward a checkpoint between Israel and the central West Bank city of Tulkarem "with a knife in hand, with the apparent intention of attacking security ...
October 18, 2019
European, US lawmakers jointly condemn Turkey invasion
WASHINGTON — European and US lawmakers united on Friday in condemnation of Turkey's invasion of Syria and President Donald Trump's troop withdrawal from the country, warning it would trigger a "resurgence of Islamic terrorism."The chairs of foreign affairs committees in the British, French, German, and European parliaments and the US House of Representatives assailed the Turkish operation as a "military aggression" and violation of international law."We... jointly condemn in the ...
October 18, 2019
Lebanese PM gives government 3 days to back reforms
BEIRUT — Lebanon's premier Saad Al-Hariri on Friday gave his government three days to back key reforms, as protests against the political elite and austerity measures rocked the country for a second day."I'm setting a very short deadline" of 72 hours, Hariri said in a televised address, as thousands filled the streets of central Beirut."Either our partners in the coalition government give a clear, decisive and final response to convince ...
October 18, 2019
More than 2,300 cross into Iraq fleeing Syria fighting
GENEVA — The United Nations said on Friday that more than 2,300 people, mostly women and children, had fled fighting in northeastern Syria and crossed into Iraq in recent days."For the fourth consecutive day, UNHCR ... has been receiving hundreds of refugees crossing the border into Iraq from northeast Syria," UN refugee agency spokesman Andrej Mahecic told reporters in Geneva.He first said "over 1,600 Syrian refugees have been transported from ...
October 18, 2019
Sudan, rebel groups agree on roadmap for peace talks
JUBA/KHARTOUM — Sudan and a major rebel group agreed on Friday to a roadmap that will allow suspended peace talks to resume, giving new impetus to efforts by the government to end multiple conflicts around the country, the two sides said.The government and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) agreed that the focus of the negotiations would be political issues first, followed by humanitarian concerns and then security arrangements.Friday's announcement ...
October 18, 2019
Kurdish mayors replaced in Turkey in crackdown on criticism of Syria assault
ANKARA — Turkey replaced the mayors of a Kurdish-majority town in its southeast with a state official, the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said, amid a crackdown at home on criticism of Ankara's offensive in Syria.The HDP said five of its co-mayors in the southeastern Kurdish-majority towns of Hakkari, Yuksekova and Nusaybin, had been jailed pending trial on Thursday. Two other co-mayors in the district of Ercis were detained earlier ...
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