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An aerial view shows the destruction following a regime air strike in a market in the town of Maaret Al-Numan in the militant-run Syrian province of Idlib on Monday. — AFP
Air strikes kill 15 civilians in northwest Syria: Monitor
MAARET AL-NUMAN, Syria — Air strikes killed 15 civilians on Monday in Syria's last major opposition bastion where deadly clashes between regime forces and armed groups have escalated in recent days, a monitoring group said.The Idlib region — home to around three million people including many displaced by Syria's eight-year civil war — is largely under the control of a group dominated by a former Al-Qaeda affiliate.Air raids by President Bashar Assad's regime killed 13 civilians in a market in the Idlib town of Maaret Al-Numan, said the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.An AFP correspondent saw rescue workers carry a wounded man away on a stretcher while a body lay motionless amid spilt oranges and bags of onions.Maher Mohammed, 35, a vendor in the market,...
December 02, 2019

Air strikes kill 15 civilians in northwest Syria: Monitor

The bus crashed on Sunday near Taza, a town between the Rif and Atlas mountains, local authorities said, with the cause of the accident unclear. — Courtesy photo
Morocco bus crash kills 17
RABAT — A bus crash in northern Morocco killed 17 people as the vehicle overturned, the health ministry said on Monday, in the second such accident in North Africa the same day.The bus crashed on Sunday near Taza, a town between the Rif and Atlas mountains, local authorities said, with the cause of the accident unclear.The ministry said the death toll had risen to 17, while 36 others were injured.An investigation was opened into the accident at Taza, 120 km (75 miles) east of Fez, authorities said.Public television 2M tweeted a photograph of the bus's interior reduced to a mass of metal.Elsewhere in North Africa, a bus crash in Tunisia also Sunday killed at least 26 people as the vehicle plunged into a ravine in the mountainous northwest.Nearly 3,500 people die each year in road...
December 02, 2019

Morocco bus crash kills 17

Burned farm house is seen in this video grab. — Courtesy photo
Children among 13 Pakistanis killed in Jordan fire
AMMAN — Thirteen Pakistanis including eight children died early Monday when a blaze tore through their corrugated metal home in a rural area of western Jordan, authorities said.Rescue services said "13 people died and three others were injured when fire broke out in a corrugated metal house" on a farm in South Shona, around 50 km (30 miles) west of Amman.The makeshift building was home to two Pakistani families working as agricultural laborers, they said in a statement.Fire service spokesman Iyad Al-Omari told state television channel Al-Mamlaka that eight children, four women and a man had died in the blaze at around 2:00 am, which was likely caused by an electrical fault.Jordan is home to thousands of Pakistanis, many of them agricultural laborers.House fires in Jordan are...
December 02, 2019

Children among 13 Pakistanis killed in Jordan fire

Newly-sworn in Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi speaks during a press conference on the sidelines of the Second Special Session of the General Conference of the IAEA at the agency's headquarters in Vienna on Monday. — AFP
New broom at UN nuclear watchdog as Iran tensions rise
VIENNA — Veteran Argentine diplomat Rafael Grossi was sworn in on Monday as the new director general of the UN's nuclear watchdog the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), with the growing crisis over Iran's nuclear program at the top of his in-tray.Grossi had been serving as Argentina's ambassador to the IAEA and is the agency's first leader from Latin America.He previously held high-level posts at the agency between 2010 and 2013, bringing him into contact with Iranian officials at a time when international negotiations over Iran's nuclear activities were intensifying.According to the former French ambassador to Iran Francois Nicoullaud, Grossi will able to draw on "solid experience in proliferation matters"."He is someone of a very high caliber...
December 02, 2019

New broom at UN nuclear watchdog as Iran tensions rise

Israeli security forces clash with Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank city of Ramallah in this Nov. 26, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Israeli occupation costs Palestinian economy $2.5bn a year: UN
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories has cost the economy of the Palestinians more than $2.5 billion a year for the past two decades, a UN report said on Monday.The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development report estimated the total fiscal loss to the Palestinian government between 2000 and 2017 at $47.7 billion.The figure included $28 billion in accrued interest and $6.6 billion in leakage from Palestinian fiscal revenues.It said the amount would have been enough to eliminate the Palestinian government's $17.7 billion budget deficit over the same period more than twice over.The report argued if the $47 billion had been invested sensibly in the impoverished Palestinian economy, it would have created an extra two million jobs over the...
December 02, 2019

Israeli occupation costs Palestinian economy $2.5bn a year: UN

Iraqi demonstrators gather on Al-Rashid street in the capital Baghdad, amid ongoing anti-government protests, on Monday. — AFP
Iraq parties in talks over new PM amid unrelenting protests
BAGHDAD — Iraq's rival parties were negotiating the contours of a new government on Monday, after the previous Cabinet was brought down by a two-month protest movement insisting on even more deep-rooted change.After just over a year in power, Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi formally resigned Sunday after a dramatic intervention by top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani.That followed a wave of violence that pushed the protest toll to over 420 dead — the vast majority demonstrators.Parliament on Sunday formally tasked the president with naming a new candidate, but Iraq's competing factions typically engage in drawn-out discussions before any official decisions are made.Talks on a new premier began before Abdel Mahdi resigned, a senior political source and a government...
December 02, 2019

Iraq parties in talks over new PM amid unrelenting protests

 A member of the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) and civilians recover a victim following a regime air strike on Monday in a market in the town of Maaret Al-Numan in the jihadist-run Syrian province of Idlib. -AFP
Regime air strikes kill 10 civilians in northwest Syria: monitor
BEIRUT - Regime air strikes Monday killed 10 civilians in Syria's last major opposition bastion, where deadly clashes between regime forces and armed groups have escalated in the past two days, a monitor said.The raids also wounded 15 civilians in a market in the town of Maaret Al-Numan in the jihadist-run province of Idlib, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights added.That came as regime forces and armed groups were locked in heavy clashes on the southeastern edge of the region, with almost 100 fighters killed in two days, the Britain-based monitor said.The battles on the edge of Idlib since Saturday are the most deadly since a Russia-brokered ceasefire went into effect in late August, it said."Fighting raged at dawn Monday on several axes in the southeastern Idlib...
December 02, 2019

Regime air strikes kill 10 civilians in northwest Syria: monitor

Tunisian President Kais Saied (C) speaks with officials at the scene of a road accident that saw a bus plunge over a cliff into a ravine in Ain Snoussi in northwestern Tunisia on Sunday. -AFP
Death toll in Tunisia bus accident rises to 26
AIN SNOUSSI, TUNISIA — At least 26 people were killed when their bus crashed into a barrier on a mountain road and careered into a ravine in northwest Tunisia, officials said on Monday.The health ministry said that 17 people were also injured in Sunday's accident in a mountainous region popular with Tunisian tourists.The accident was one of the deadliest ever in a country whose poor road safety record has sparked criticism of officials.All those aboard the bus were Tunisian, the ministry said.The age of the vehicle, more than 20 years old, and speeding were the suspected causes, a minister, Noureddine Selmi, told state television after an initial investigation.The bus had set off from Tunis towards the picturesque northern mountain town of Ain Draham, a popular autumn destination for...
December 02, 2019

Death toll in Tunisia bus accident rises to 26

Iraqi mourners carry the coffin of Haidar Ahmed Kazem, a high school student who was killed a day earlier, during his funeral procession in Tahrir square in the capital Baghdad, on Sunday. -AFP
Iraqis mourn protest dead ahead of parliament session
MOSUL, IRAQ - Iraqis across the country marched Sunday to mourn protesters killed in anti-government rallies, even turning out in Sunni areas where people were previously too afraid to join in.Demonstrators have hit the streets since early October in Baghdad and the Shiite-majority south to demand the ouster of a government they accuse of being corrupt, inefficient and beholden to foreign powers.After a spike in deaths this week raised the toll to more than 420 killed, Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi said Friday he would submit his resignation to parliament. The chamber is due to convene later Sunday, but no agenda has yet been published.In recent weeks, most Sunni-majority areas refrained from protesting, fearing that opposing the central government would earn them the labels of being...
December 01, 2019

Iraqis mourn protest dead ahead of parliament session

Ghassan Salame, Special Representative of the UN Secretary General to Libya. -Courtesy photo
US-Russia tensions 'complicate' UN peace bid for Libya
TUNIS — For the UN's Libya envoy, US-Russia tensions top a list of "complications" in efforts to heal international divisions on the North African state's conflict, he told AFP in an interview.Ghassan Salame said "the road is (still) full of obstacles and complications" towards convening inter-Libyan peace talks that could be held in Geneva "probably in the first half of January"."We've recently had many complications, primarily of course concerning this Russian-American tension on the possible presence (in Libya) of Russian security firms," said Salame.Washington has repeatedly voiced concern over alleged Russian meddling in the conflict that is being exploited by several outside powers for a proxy war.Under an action plan adopted by...
November 30, 2019

US-Russia tensions 'complicate' UN peace bid for Libya

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