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An Iraqi mourner cries as he joins the crowd walking in the funeral of a prominent civil society activist who was shot dead the previous night while returning home from anti-government protests, in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala, south of the capital Baghdad, on Monday. — AFP
Iraqis rally against government after activist killed
BAGHDAD — Iraqis turned out on Monday to mourn a prominent activist gunned down the previous evening, the latest violent episode in anti-government demonstrations in which more than 450 people have died.Adding to the tension, a volley of rockets wounded six Iraqi soldiers on a military base near the Baghdad airport hosting US troops and American diplomats.Iraq's capital and its Shiite-majority south have been gripped by more than two months of rallies against corruption, poor public services and a lack of jobs.One prominent civil society activist, Fahem Al-Tai, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala late Sunday while returning home from protests.Hundreds joined his funeral procession on Monday, carrying 53-year-old Tai's coffin through the city...
December 09, 2019

Iraqis rally against government after activist killed

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference in Tokyo on Monday. — AFP
Japan weighing visit by Iran's President Rohani
TOKYO — Japan is weighing inviting Iran's President Hassan Rouhani for a state visit, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday, as local media reported the trip was likely to happen this month.Japan has been trying to forge a possible mediator role as tensions rise between its ally Washington and Tehran.Local media has reported in recent days that Rohani is likely to visit Tokyo around Dec. 20, with some reports saying Washington has green-lighted the trip."A visit by President Rohani to Japan is now under consideration," Abe said at a press conference marking the end of the year's parliamentary session."Japan, which has an alliance with the US and at the same time has maintained favorable relations with Iran for a long time, must forge its own path," he...
December 09, 2019

Japan weighing visit by Iran's President Rohani

A Palestinian youth checks a car as vehicles with their tires slashed are pictured in the Palestinian neighborhood of Shuafat, neighboring the Israeli settlement of Ramat Shlomo, in Israeli annexed east Jerusalem, on Monday. — AFP
160 Palestinian cars vandalized in suspected hate crime
JERUSALEM — More than 160 cars were vandalized in a Palestinian neighborhood of Jerusalem with anti-Arab slogans scrawled nearby, Israeli police said Monday, in a suspected hate crime.The cars in the Shuafaat neighborhood of east Jerusalem had their tires slashed, with slogans such as "Arabs=enemies", "There is no room in the country for enemies" and "When Jews are stabbed we aren't silent" scrawled in Hebrew with red paint nearby, photos published by Israeli media showed.Police said their forces "continue to search the area for the suspects who fled the scene."A local official told public broadcaster Kann that footage revealed the vandalism took place overnight under the cover of the rain, and that the perpetrators were religious Jews.The...
December 09, 2019

160 Palestinian cars vandalized in suspected hate crime

Algerian students shout slogans during an anti-government demonstration in the capital Algiers on Monday ahead of the presidential vote scheduled for Dec. 12. — AFP
Algeria youth scorn 'dinosaur' old guard ahead of polls
ALGIERS — Algeria's contentious presidential election campaign is highlighting the deep gulf between young people at the heart of a street protest movement and an aging elite they see as clinging to power.The poll, set for Thursday, will see five candidates, all of them linked to the 82-year-old deposed President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, compete for the top office.But the protesters, whose mass mobilization forced the ex-strongman to resign from his two-decade tenure in April, have rallied weekly to demand that sweeping reforms must come ahead of any vote."It's not a gap between the fossils in power and the youth, it's a yawning chasm," said Lyes, a 22-year-old geology student draped in his country's flag at a student march in Algiers.While more than half of the...
December 09, 2019

Algeria youth scorn 'dinosaur' old guard ahead of polls

Iraqi mourners walk in the funeral of a prominent civil society activist was shot dead the previous night while returning home from anti-government protests, in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala, south of the capital baghdad, on Monday. — AFP
Prominent activist gunned down in Iraq shrine city Karbala
KARBALA, Iraq — A prominent civil society activist was shot dead late Sunday in Iraq's shrine city of Karbala while returning home from anti-government protests, a neighbor said.Fahem Al-Tai, 53, had been taking part in weeks of rallies denouncing Iraq's entrenched political elite as corrupt, inept and beholden to neighboring Iran.On Sunday night, he was dropped off by two friends on a motorcycle near his home, according to a neighbor."The area is close to the shrines, the police station, the provincial headquarters — it's a very secure area," the neighbor said."He was with two of his friends when he was killed."In footage from a street security camera seen by AFP, Tai could be seen disembarking from a motorcycle when another motorcycle with two men...
December 09, 2019

Prominent activist gunned down in Iraq shrine city Karbala

Rockets hit Iraq military complex housing US forces
BAGHDAD — Several rockets slammed into an Iraqi military complex that hosts US forces next to Baghdad International Airport on Monday, wounding six Iraqi troops, the military said.Security forces found launchers with rockets that had not been fired properly, indicating a larger attack was planned, a military statement said.It is the latest in an uptick in rocket attacks targeting either Iraqi bases where American troops are located or the US embassy in Baghdad.US defense officials have blamed several on Iran-backed factions in Iraq.Security sources said that the wounded in Monday's attack belong to Iraq's Counter-Terrorism Service, an elite unit that was created and trained by US forces.Two of them are in critical condition, the sources said.The military complex also hosts a...
December 09, 2019

Rockets hit Iraq military complex housing US forces

Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu speaks during a news conference for foreign media correspondents in Istanbul, Turkey, in this August 21, 2019 file picture. — Courtesy photo
Turkey deports 11 French relatives of 'terrorist' suspects
PARIS — Turkey has sent 11 French relatives of suspected "terrorist fighters" back home, the Turkish interior ministry said on Monday, the latest in the country's renewed push to deport foreign insurgents."Eleven French citizens have been deported to their home country," it said in a statement.A judicial source in France confirmed that four women and their seven children had arrived in France early on Monday.Under a 2014 accord between France and Turkey, Paris agreed to take back militants trying to return home from Syria via Turkey and incarcerate them at home.Two of the women returned on Monday were already targeted by arrest warrants and will soon face a judge, while the other two were sought by police and have been placed in custody, the French source...
December 09, 2019

Turkey deports 11 French relatives of 'terrorist' suspects

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, center, chairs the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem on Sunday. — AFP
With two days left, deadlocked Israel faces repeat vote
JERUSALEM — Israel edged closer to a third election within a year Monday as neither the embattled premier Benjamin Netanyahu nor his main rival appeared close to forming a government two days before a deadline.Right-winger Netanyahu and former army general Benny Gantz, who leads the centrist Blue and White alliance, traded blame over the impasse ahead of Wednesday, the last opportunity to form a coalition and avoid fresh polls.A new election would be a repeat of September's deadlocked vote, which in itself was a response to inconclusive April polls, and would further deepen the political turmoil in the Jewish state."We made offer after offer and got nothing. Nada," Netanyahu said Sunday at a conference organized by a conservative Israeli newspaper. "Blue and White did...
December 09, 2019

With two days left, deadlocked Israel faces repeat vote

In this image obtained from the US Embassy in Bern, US Ambassador to Switzerland Edward T. McMullen, Jr., presents a US flag to and welcomes Princeton graduate student Xiyue Wang on arrival in Switzerland after his release from Iran on Dec. 7, 2019.  — AFP
Iran says ready for more US prisoner swaps
TEHRAN — Iran said on Monday it was open to more prisoner swaps with the US while stressing an exchange at the weekend was not the result of formal negotiations with its arch-foe.US President Donald Trump thanked Iran for what he called a "very fair negotiation" after an American scholar was released Saturday in exchange for an Iranian scientist held in the United States.The exchange involved Xiyue Wang, a Chinese-born American held in Iran since 2016, and Massoud Soleimani, an Iranian scientist detained in the United States since 2018.But Iran's government dismissed the idea that it was the result of any negotiations between the two countries, which have not had diplomatic ties since 1980."This was only an exchange and... regarding exchanges we are ready to act but...
December 09, 2019

Iran says ready for more US prisoner swaps

A handout picture provided by the Lebanese photo agency Dalati and Nohra on shows Lebanon's outgoing Prime Minister Saad Hariri (R) shaking the hand of Samir Khatib, a Lebanese businessman who is the front-runner to form a new Lebanese government, in the capital Beirut. Sunni Muslim leaders in protest-wracked Lebanon have thrown their support behind ex-premier Saad Hariri to return to his post a month after he stepped down. — AFP
Lebanon Sunni leaders back Hariri to return as premier
BEIRUT — Sunni Muslim leaders in protest-wracked Lebanon have thrown their support behind ex-premier Saad Hariri to return to his post a month after he stepped down, a sidelined candidate said Sunday.Businessman Samir Khatib had been put forward as a likely contender to succeed Hariri, but he said a visit to the country's highest Sunni Muslim authority had indicated otherwise.Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdellatif Deryan informed Khatib that "a consensus had been reached to name Saad Hariri as prime minister to form the next government", the 72-year-old businessman said.Khatib then met Hariri, who has stayed on in the role of caretaker premier and has supported him in his bid, to inform him of his withdrawal from the race, he said in televised comments.Lebanon has been gripped by...
December 08, 2019

Lebanon Sunni leaders back Hariri to return as premier

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