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France's President Emmanuel Macron, right, gestures as Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan walks past him during a family photo as part of the NATO summit at the Grove hotel in Watford, northeast of London, on Wednesday. — AFP
Macron says 'no consensus' with Turkey on terrorism
WATFORD, England — French President Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that no consensus could be reached with Turkey on defining terrorism, amid a row with Ankara over Kurdish militia groups."I don't see any possible consensus," Macron said after a NATO summit marred by the spat with Turkey over its demand that allies brand as "terrorists" the Kurdish militias of northeastern Syria that helped a US-led coalition defeat Daesh (the so-called IS).Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had threatened to block an update to defense plans for the Baltic republics and Poland unless NATO recognized the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) as terrorists.After meetings between Erdogan and US President Donald Trump, as well as Baltic and Polish leaders, Turkey...
December 04, 2019

Macron says 'no consensus' with Turkey on terrorism

Three Moroccans, who were living in Spain, were arrested in dawn raids in Madrid, on Tuesday. — Courtesy photo
Morocco, Spain arrest 4 suspected Daesh supporters
RABAT — Moroccan police said on Wednesday they had disrupted a jihadist cell and arrested four suspected supporters of Daesh (the so-called IS), in a joint operation with Spain.Three men were detained in Morocco's northern Nador region "in coordination with Spanish national police", while the head of the group was "arrested simultaneously" near Madrid, a statement by Moroccan anti-terror police said.The suspects, aged between 24 and 39, followed Daesh propaganda and organized meetings to "plan terrorist operations in response to repeated calls from Daesh leaders," the statement said.Spanish police said a man was arrested in Guadalajara northeast of Madrid.He is accused of organizing meetings with other radicals around the Spanish enclave of Melilla on...
December 04, 2019

Morocco, Spain arrest 4 suspected Daesh supporters

Palestinian construction workers lay out a wire fence at the site of a future medical facility, nicknamed the
In Gaza, 'American hospital' fuels suspicions
EREZ, Gaza — Volunteers with a US Christian charity group pose for a selfie in front of tents and crates of equipment to build a contentious new field hospital on the Israel-Gaza border.The facility, to be located right next to a crossing into Israel, has rare joint support from the Jewish state and Gaza's rulers Hamas as part of an informal truce deal.But its existence, and the way it has been advertised by the US non-government group running it, is fueling suspicions and rumors among some Palestinians.Nicknamed the "American hospital" by Palestinians, it is funded by the evangelical Friend Ships organization based in the US state of Louisiana.Pictures posted on the Christian group's Facebook page show young volunteers in dark T-shirts hammering pegs into the ground...
December 04, 2019

In Gaza, 'American hospital' fuels suspicions

Lebanon's President Michel Aoun, center, meets with Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh, third left, and financial officials at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of the capital Beirut, in this Nov. 29, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Lebanon to start government formation talks on Monday
BEIRUT — Consultations to form a new Lebanese government will formally begin on Monday, the presidency announced, more than a month after a wave of protests led the prime minister, Saad Al-Hariri, to resign."The presidency has set on Monday as the date for the parliamentary consultations" for the designation of a new prime minister, the presidency announced in a short statement on social media Wednesday.Despite continued pressure from a nationwide protest movement to radically overhaul the political system, President Michel Aoun had so far stopped short of announcing formal talks to agree on a new line-up.He and several key partners in the fractious outgoing governing coalition had apparently insisted on reaching a deal before announcing the start of formal talks with...
December 04, 2019

Lebanon to start government formation talks on Monday

Iranian President Hassan Rohani speaks during the insurance conference in the capital of Tehran on Wednesday. — AFP
Iran says still ready for talks if US lifts sanctions
TEHRAN — Iran is willing to return to the negotiating table if the United States first drops sanctions, President Hassan Rohani said on Wednesday, after a fuel price hike sparked deadly violence ahead of elections.European countries have been pushing for talks with Iran to salvage a 2015 nuclear deal that has all but collapsed since the United States withdrew and reimposed sanctions last year.Rohani has long demanded the lifting of US sanctions for Iran's return to talks under the auspices of the so-called P5+1 that reached the deal — the five veto-wielding permanent members of the UN Security Council plus Germany.His latest statement comes after a shock announcement in mid-November that the price of petrol was going up by as much as 200 percent triggered demonstrations across Iran...
December 04, 2019

Iran says still ready for talks if US lifts sanctions

Iraqi demonstrators gather on Tahrir square in the capital Baghdad, amid ongoing anti-government protests, on Wednesday. — AFP
Still in streets, Iraqis say problem is poverty
DIWANIYAH, Iraq — Chants demanding complete regime change have echoed across Iraq for weeks, but what first brought demonstrators onto the street was the profound poverty of one of the world's most oil-rich countries.And that is what has kept them there, with protesters brushing off the resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi as failing to root out the rampant corruption that denies them jobs and public services.In the southern protest hot spot of Diwaniyah, one of the poorest agricultural areas in the country, Umm Salah has joined rallies every day outside the provincial council."I've suffered in my country, even though it's a rich country," she said, carrying an Iraqi tricolor.The 57-year-old widow has been protesting every day since October with her seven...
December 04, 2019

Still in streets, Iraqis say problem is poverty

France's President Emmanuel Macron, center, gestures next to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel during a family photo as part of the NATO summit at the Grove hotel in Watford, northeast of London, on Wednesday. — AFP
NATO unity on the line as Turkey row festers
WATFORD, England — NATO kicked off tense summit talks on Wednesday seeking to make a show of unity despite bickering among leaders as a festering row with Turkey rumbles on.What should have been a celebration of NATO's 70th birthday has been overshadowed by bitter disputes about money and the future strategy of the alliance.Last year, the Western allies' get-together was derailed by US President Donald Trump's demand for greater European defense spending, but 2019's provocateur was Emmanuel Macron.The French president has called for a renewed strategic dialogue with Moscow and demanded that Turkey explain itself over its assault — backed by Syrian rebels Paris sees as extremists — on Kurdish forces and its purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system.Turkish...
December 04, 2019

NATO unity on the line as Turkey row festers

A Sudanese paramedic walks with a stretcher as others search for victims at the scene of a fire at a tile manufacturing unit in an industrial zone in north Khartoum on Tuesday. — AFP
23 killed as fire engulfs Sudan factory
KHARTOUM — Twenty-three people were killed and dozens injured as a fire triggered by an explosion in a gas tanker tore through a factory in the Sudanese capital on Tuesday, officials said.Thick plumes of black smoke billowed into the sky after the blaze broke out at a tile manufacturing unit in an industrial zone of north Khartoum, witnesses said.Police cordoned off the entire area, a correspondent reported from the scene as fire engines battled to douse the blaze."A fire erupted in an industrial area because of which 23 people were killed and more than 130 injured," the cabinet said in a statement."A blast in a gas tanker triggered the fire."Preliminary reports from the scene indicate that necessary safety equipment was missing at the site, it said."There were...
December 03, 2019

23 killed as fire engulfs Sudan factory

Iranian protesters gather around a fire during a demonstration against an increase in gasoline prices in the capital Tehran in this Nov. 16, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Trump says Iran is killing thousands for protesting
LONDON — US President Donald Trump on Tuesday denounced Iran's crackdown on anti-government protesters, as rights groups said the death toll had soared.Protests erupted in Iran on Nov. 15 after an announcement that petrol prices were going up by as much as 200 percent with immediate effect."Iran is killing perhaps thousands and thousands of people right now as we speak," Trump told reporters in London ahead of a NATO summit."That's why they cut off the internet. They cut off the internet so people can't see what's going on."And frankly, I don't know how you get in there, I don't know how you do your business but the press ought to get in there and see what's going on."Trump added: "The word is that thousands of people are being...
December 03, 2019

Trump says Iran is killing thousands for protesting

The protests that broke out across the country from Nov. 15 were ignited by a price hike on fuel as part of an effort to ease pressure on the sanctions-hit economy. — AFP
Iran videos hit internet revealing scope of crackdown
NICOSIA — Videos showing harrowing scenes of bleeding protesters, burning roadblocks and snipers on rooftops have emerged after Iran lifted a near-total internet blackout, opening a window onto what analysts say was one of Tehran's bloodiest crackdowns.This repression "was harsher" than during previous protests in Iran, Kamran Matin, senior lecturer in International Relations at Sussex University in Britain, said in Nicosia."All the videos I have seen from before the internet was shut down show that from the moment of the gathering of people to 'shoot to kill' was very short."The protests that broke out across the country from Nov. 15 were ignited by a price hike on fuel — a heavily subsidized commodity in one of OPEC's largest producers — as part...
December 03, 2019

Iran videos hit internet revealing scope of crackdown

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