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December 18, 2018
Chile examines Iranian oil link to fumes that sickened many
SANTIAGO — Chilean law enforcement officials are investigating the delivery of Iranian crude oil to state energy company ENAP as a possible source of the noxious fumes that caused hundreds of people to seek hospital treatment in August, a prosecutors' office told Reuters.Police and prosecutors raided ENAP's oil refinery and maritime port in Hualpen and Talcahuano, two adjoining towns 315 miles (505 km) south of Santiago, early on Monday, ENAP ...
December 18, 2018
UN rebukes Iran for severe rights abuses
New York — UN General Assembly adopted a resolution, by a recorded vote of 84 in favor to 30 against, with 67 abstentions, condemning Iran’s human rights violations.It expressed grave concern over the high number of executions, especially juveniles, arbitrary and systematic arrests, and atrocious prison conditions.The UN resolution stressed the “alarmingly high frequency” of the use of the death penalty including against minors, “the widespread and systematic use of ...
December 18, 2018
Yemen ceasefire monitors to deploy within 24 hours: UN
Dubai — A team including members of the government will be dispatched within a day to monitor a truce deal in Hodeida city, a United Nations official said Tuesday."The Redeployment Coordination Committee (RCC) is expected to start its work within the next 24 hours," the official, who requested anonymity, told AFP.The observers are due to oversee the implementation of the truce, the withdrawal of warring parties from Hodeida city and ...
December 18, 2018
UAE sets up committee for tolerance
ABU DHABI — A new committee for tolerance has been set up by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, the UAE’s vice president and prime minister and Dubai’s ruler in line with the country’s plan to observe 2019 as the ‘Year of Tolerance’.The committee will be chaired by Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed, minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation, and will include ministers and representatives from UAE civil society organizations as ...
December 18, 2018
Russia, Iran and Turkey seek deal on new ‘Syria constitutional body’
GENEVA — Russia, Iran and Turkey are close to agreement on composition of a Syrian constitutional committee, diplomats said on Monday.The foreign ministers of the three nations, who support opposing sides in Syria’s nearly eight-year war, meet for talks on Tuesday in Geneva, where they are expected to seek the United Nations’ blessing for their joint proposal, they added.Staffan de Mistura, UN Special Envoy for Syria who steps down at ...
December 18, 2018
Nearly 2,000 jailed for life since 2016 Turkey failed coup
ANKARA — Nearly 2,000 people have been sentenced to life in prison since the July 2016 attempted overthrow of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkish state media reported Tuesday.State news agency Anadolu said some 1,934 suspects have been told by the courts that they will spend the rest of their life in jail.Of these, 978 people were jailed for life, Anadolu reported, while 956 were sentenced to aggravated life imprisonment, which ...
December 18, 2018
Morocco arrests suspect after murder of two Scandinavians
RABAT — Moroccan authorities on Tuesday arrested a suspect following the murder of two Scandinavian women in the High Atlas mountains, a popular trekking destination for tourists.Other suspects are being sought over the killings of the Danish and Norwegian hikers who were found dead on Monday with cuts to their necks, the interior ministry said.The bodies were discovered in an isolated mountainous area 10 km from the tourist village of ...
December 18, 2018
22 Palestinians hurt in Israeli raid on Gaza naval march
GAZA CITY — Israeli soldiers have wounded at least 22 Palestinians in an attack on demonstrators that had gathered along Gaza’s territorial waters to stage a new protest against Israeli occupation.The injuries took place on Monday afternoon, when hundreds of Palestinians participated in the 20th weekly naval march in the northern Gaza Strip against the crippling blockade of the coastal enclave.The Palestinian Ma'an News Agency said Israeli forces fired live ammunition, ...
December 18, 2018
Lebanon inching closer to new govt ‘within few days’
BEIRUT — Lebanon appeared to be edging toward clinching a deal to form a new national unity government after more than seven months of wrangling over Cabinet posts, as the finance minister was quoted as saying there could be a new administration within days. Efforts to form a new government led by Prime Minister-designate Saad Al-Hariri have been obstructed by rival groups’ conflicting demands for seats in a cabinet that must ...
December 18, 2018
Arafat was killed for believing Solomon’s Temple was in Yemen: Asfour
A FORMER Palestinian official involved in the Oslo negotiations affirmed that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was assassinated because he was convinced that Solomon’s Temple, also known as The First Temple, was actually located in Yemen and not in Jerusalem.Hassan Asfour added in his interview with the political program Political Memories, which will be broadcasted later this week on the Al Arabiya News Channel in a sit-down interview with Senior Anchor ...
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