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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, meets with Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita during his visit to Rabat on Thursday. — AFP
Pompeo arrives for his first visit to Morocco
RABAT — Top US diplomat Mike Pompeo visited Morocco on Thursday as the highest-ranking American official to travel there since the election of President Donald Trump.The State Department has called Morocco an "essential partner" in the US diplomatic strategy in the region."We have a great relationship between our two countries," Pompeo said as he began his meetings in Rabat. "We make our people safer in each of our two countries."The trip comes after Pompeo announced last month that the United States no longer considered Jewish settlements in the West Bank to be illegal.The announcement broke with decades of international consensus that the settlements are illegal and a major barrier to peace with the Palestinians.The king of Morocco last month called for an...
December 05, 2019

Pompeo arrives for his first visit to Morocco

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a meeting with the Portuguese Prime Minister, not seen, at the Sao Bento Palace in Lisbon, Portugal, on Thursday. — AFP
Lawyer to be charged with graft in new woes for Netanyahu
JERUSALEM — Israel's state prosecutor said on Thursday he intends to charge the personal lawyer of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with money-laundering in the state's purchase of submarines from German firm Thyssenkrupp.Netanyahu has in the past been questioned as a witness in the case but was not considered a suspect.Nevertheless, with prospects of another snap election looming and the premier already charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust, it is sure to provide ammunition for his political rivals.Main challenger Benny Gantz, a former Israeli army chief, has repeatedly accused the country's longest-serving prime minister of profiting personally from the submarine purchase.Netanyahu denies the accusation.Israel's justice ministry said on Thursday that subject...
December 05, 2019

Lawyer to be charged with graft in new woes for Netanyahu

France's President Emmanuel Macron, center, gestures next to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, during a family photo as part of the NATO summit at the Grove hotel in Watford, northeast of London, on Wednesday. — AFP
Turkey to host new summit to tackle Syria conflict
ANKARA — Turkey will host a summit on Syria in February with the leaders of France, Germany and Britain amid ongoing tensions over the conflict, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in comments published on Thursday.It follows their meeting on Tuesday in London on the sidelines of the NATO summit.Deep differences remain over Turkey's offensive in October against Kurdish militants in northern Syrian, who had been a key ally for the West against Daesh (the so-called IS).That triggered a bitter verbal exchange between Erdogan and French President Emmanuel Macron ahead of the NATO summit.But Macron said their four-way meeting had helped "clear up misunderstandings" despite the continuing refusal by Western powers to label Syrian Kurdish militants as terrorists."We agreed...
December 05, 2019

Turkey to host new summit to tackle Syria conflict

Palestinians watch a film during the opening ceremony of the Red Carpet Human Rights Film Festival in Gaza-Karama Palestine, in front of the abandoned Cinema Amer building in Gaza City, on Wednesday. — AFP
Red carpet but no cinema as Gaza film festival forced outdoors
GAZA CITY — In the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, without a cinema for 30 years, a few hundred people walk the red carpet to a rare film screening — held on the street.The opening of the Red Carpet Human Rights Film Festival on Wednesday evening had been expected to take place inside the Amer Cinema, which has been abandoned for three decades.But it was moved at the last minute in unclear circumstances, with a screen erected in the street outside the cinema, a gray building with the letters peeling off.The festival's executive director, Muntaser al-Sabaa, said organizers had been told by the cinema's owners that they could no longer use it as a venue."Suddenly they told us: 'We are sorry but the situation is dangerous'. They said: 'We are afraid'."What...
December 05, 2019

Red carpet but no cinema as Gaza film festival forced outdoors

The migrant vessel sunk some 25 km (15 miles) north of the town of Nouadhibou, near the border with Western Sahara, a Mauritanian security official said. — AFP
Dozens of migrants drown as boat sinks off Mauritania
NOUAKCHOTT — At least 58 migrants heading to Europe died as their makeshift boat sank off the coast of Mauritania, but 83 survivors managed to swim to shore, the International Organization for Migration said.The migrants "were mostly clandestine immigrants trying to reach Spain, coming from Banjul in Gambia," Mauritania's interior ministry said in a statement released Wednesday night."At least 58 people are confirmed dead after a vessel carrying migrants sank as it approached the coast of Mauritania," the IOM said in a statement."Eighty-three others swam to shore and are receiving assistance."The migrant vessel sunk some 25 km (15 miles) north of the town of Nouadhibou, near the border with Western Sahara, a Mauritanian security official said."The...
December 05, 2019

Dozens of migrants drown as boat sinks off Mauritania

An Iranian man stands at the burned branch of a local bank that was damaged during demonstrations against petrol price hikes in Shahriar, west of Tehran, in this November 20, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Khamenei orders Iran unrest victims treated as 'martyrs'
TEHRAN — Iran's supreme leader has agreed that people killed in nationwide unrest last month who had no role in fomenting it should be treated as "martyrs" with their families compensated.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's decision marked a significant softening of position by the Iranian authorities toward those killed during the protests that erupted on Nov. 15 following a surprise hike in fuel prices.He was responding to a report on the protests he commissioned from Iran's Supreme National Security Council, his official website said on Wednesday.He ordered that its recommendations "be implemented as soon as possible".Iran has yet to give overall figures for the number of people killed or arrested when security forces moved in to quell the unrest that saw...
December 05, 2019

Khamenei orders Iran unrest victims treated as 'martyrs'

The drilling ship 'Yavuz' scheduled to search for oil and gas off Cyprus is seen at the port of Dilovasi, outside Istanbul, Turkey, in this June 20, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Cyprus petitions ICC over Turkey's offshore drilling
NICOSIA — Cyprus has petitioned the International Court of Justice at The Hague to protect its offshore gas reserves from meddling by Turkey, President Nicos Anastasiades said on Thursday."We have said we will use every legitimate and legal weapon, in every international forum, to defend the sovereign rights of the Republic of Cyprus, and the petition to the The Hague has this purpose," Anastasiades told reporters.The island's internationally recognized government felt compelled to seek the judgement of the court after Turkish authorities sent drill ships into what it regards as its exclusive economic zone.The Greek Cypriot dominated government has pushed ahead with offshore oil and gas exploration despite the collapse in 2017 of UN-backed talks on ending the island's...
December 05, 2019

Cyprus petitions ICC over Turkey's offshore drilling

The aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, left, the air-defense destroyer HMS Defender, center, and the guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut transit the Strait of Hormuz in this Nov. 19, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Pentagon denies US mulling 14,000 more troops for Mideast
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Wednesday denied a report that the United States was weighing sending up to 14,000 more troops to the Middle East in the face of a perceived threat from Iran.The Wall Street Journal reported that the possible deployment would include "dozens" more ships and double the number of troops added to the US force in the region since the beginning of this year, citing unnamed US officials.The paper said President Donald Trump could make a decision on the troop boost as early as this month.But the Pentagon disputed the accuracy of the report."To be clear, the reporting is wrong. The US is not considering sending 14,000 additional troops to the Middle East," spokeswoman Alyssa Farah tweeted.The region has seen a series of attacks on shipping vessels...
December 05, 2019

Pentagon denies US mulling 14,000 more troops for Mideast

Displaced from the border town of Ras Al-Ain, Syrian Kurdish film director Teymour Ifdaki, 42, who's home was allegedly burned along with his collection of 500 books by Turkey-backed Syrian fighters, sits with his two daughters in a house in the de-facto Syrian Kurdish capital of Qamishli, in this Nov. 28, 2019 file photo. — AFP
'In cold blood': Syria Kurds say killed, robbed by Turkey proxies
QAMISHLI, Syria — Syrian Kurdish mother Shara Sido says the news came to her via a messaging application. She received an image of a bullet-riddled corpse with the instruction: "Come collect your son."Sitting inside a modest house in the de-facto Syrian Kurdish capital of Qamishli, the displaced 65-year-old scrolls through her phone to find a picture."This is the monster," she alleged, showing a photograph of the Syrian fighter she said confessed to shooting dead her 38-year-old son."They killed my son in cold blood," she said, blaming Turkey-backed Syrian fighters.Turkish troops and their Syrian proxies have overrun a swathe of northern Syria since October, after a deadly military campaign against Kurdish forces that caused tens of thousands to flee their...
December 05, 2019

'In cold blood': Syria Kurds say killed, robbed by Turkey proxies

Iraqi actors perform a play representing the ongoing anti-government demonstrations, in Tahrir Square in the capital Baghdad, , in this Dec. 3, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Iraq revolution will be dramatized, written, read, and painted
BAGHDAD — The pops of gunfire rang out across the protest camp in Iraq's capital. Blood-stained bodies writhed on the pavement, and smoke from burning tires smarted the captive audience's eyes.But for once in recent weeks, the scenes playing out in Baghdad's Tahrir Square were a dramatization, put on by actors who traveled 600 km (400 miles) from the port city of Basra.To an audience in tears, they acted out protesters railing against corruption and the lack of jobs, and filming with smartphones to broadcast the rallies live on social media.Suddenly, the actors crumpled to the ground, motionless, under a volley of tear gas canisters and live rounds.Each actor took turns recounting the story of his "martyr," weaving through the stunned spectators and occasionally...
December 05, 2019

Iraq revolution will be dramatized, written, read, and painted

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