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Iraqi demonstrators clash with security forces in Karbala on Friday. -AFP
Iraqis keep up anti-regime demos despite PM's vow to quit
NASIRIYAH, IRAQ — Iraqis kept up their anti-government protests in Baghdad and across the south on Saturday, unsatisfied with the prime minister's planned resignation and insisting "all corrupted people" must step down.Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi announced on Friday he was planning to submit his resignation to parliament but the following day, protests were still ongoing in his birthplace of Nasiriyah, in Iraq's south.Demonstrations set tires ablaze on three bridges spanning the Euphrates River as hundreds more converged in the main protest camp in the flashpoint city's center, according to an AFP correspondent.Their renewed rallies came despite a bloody crackdown by security forces that left more than 40 protesters dead over the past two days in the city.The...
November 30, 2019

Iraqis keep up anti-regime demos despite PM's vow to quit

UN Special Envoy to Syria Geir Pedersen, center, co-chair Ahmad Al-Kuzbari, left, and co-chair opposition Syrian Negotiations Commission Hadi Al-Bahra attend ceremony to mark opening of a meeting of Syria constitution-writing committee in this file photo. — AFP
Syria constitution talks end round without meeting
GENEVA — A second round of talks on amending Syria's constitution ended Friday, after disagreement on the agenda prevented government and opposition negotiators from meeting, the UN mediator said.The United Nations-brokered constitutional review committee includes 150 delegates — divided equally among President Bashar Assad's government, the opposition and civil society.A smaller group of 45 negotiators has been charged with hammering out a new text, but there is little hope for a breakthrough towards a political solution to the conflict that has killed more than 370,000 people."It was not possible to call for a meeting of the small body of 45 (negotiators) because there has not been an agreement on the agenda," UN Syria envoy Geir Pedersen told reporters.It was not...
November 29, 2019

Syria constitution talks end round without meeting

Relatives and friends of a Palestinian teenager who was killed near the border fence react as they mourn outside a hospital in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Friday. — AFP
Israeli troops shoot dead Palestinian on border: Gaza ministry
GAZA CITY — Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian teenager near the border with the Gaza Strip on Friday, the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave said.Fahd Al-Astal, 16, died after being shot in the stomach east of Khan Yunis in the south of the enclave, and four other Palestinians were wounded, the ministry said.Weekly border protests along the Israeli frontier were officially canceled on Friday.But residents said a small number of mostly young Palestinians still approached the border fence."We are looking into information about the death of a Palestinian," an Israeli army spokesman said."In recent hours, dozens of protesters assembled close to the security barrier in the Gaza Strip," the spokesman said."Several attempts to approach the barrier and...
November 29, 2019

Israeli troops shoot dead Palestinian on border: Gaza ministry

Lebanese people queue in front of a petrol station in Beirut's Cola district on Friday, following an open strike called for by the Syndicate of Fuel Station Owners. — AFP
Lebanese block roads as petrol stations strike
BEIRUT — Angry Lebanese blocked main roads on Friday as petrol stations across the country went on strike for the second day in a row, a photographer and local media said.Filling station owners announced the walkout from Thursday over mounting losses due to a dollar liquidity crunch.More than a month into unprecedented anti-government protests, Lebanon is facing a dual political and economic crisis.In Beirut and several other major cities on Friday, drivers briefly stopped their cars in the afternoon, blocking some main roads, the national news agency and the AFP photographer said.In the capital, most stations had closed their pumps and blocked off their entrances with a barrier or yellow tape, but a handful had remained open, the photographer said.Clutching empty one-gallon (four-liter)...
November 29, 2019

Lebanese block roads as petrol stations strike

Algerian demonstrators wave national flags as they gather on the 41st consecutive Friday demonstration against the government and the ruling class in the capital Algiers on Friday. — AFP
Algerian protesters insist December election must not go ahead
ALGIERS — Algerians thronged their capital on Friday to insist that a presidential election set for Dec. 12 must not go ahead before a change of regime.Protesters fear the poll will cement in power politicians close to ex-President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who quit in April under popular pressure after two decades as head of state.The five candidates standing in the December poll all either supported the former leader or took part in his government."There will be no vote!" demonstrators chanted on Friday. "We swear we will not stop!"They denounced an official crackdown on the so-called "Hirak" movement that has shaken the country with months of unprecedented protests.Security forces, both uniformed and plain-clothed, flooded Algiers for the 41st consecutive...
November 29, 2019

Algerian protesters insist December election must not go ahead

US sailors aboard an amphibious transport ship are seen as they monitor Iranian attack vessels in the Strait of Hormuz in this on Aug. 12, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Dutch ship to join European mission to monitor Gulf waters
THE HAGUE — The Dutch government said on Friday it was sending a navy frigate to join a "French-initiated, European mission" that will monitor Gulf waters amid regional tensions with Iran.The Netherlands and five other countries will also join a financial channel for Iran that is immune from US sanctions, as they seek to keep a nuclear deal with Tehran alive, they said.The Dutch ship with an onboard helicopter will be stationed in the region from the end of January to the end of June 2020 "to enhance maritime security in the Gulf region", the Dutch government said in a statement."It's very important to ensure a free and safe passage" through the strait, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told reporters."The Netherlands is happy to take part. We are not...
November 29, 2019

Dutch ship to join European mission to monitor Gulf waters

Algiers' August-20 Stadium where five young people were killed and dozens more injured in a stampede at a packed rap concert the previous night is seen in this Aug. 23, 2019 file photo. — AFP
3 sentenced to prison over Algeria concert stampede deaths
ALGIERS — An Algerian court has handed three people prison sentences for "negligence" over a deadly stampede at an August concert, a judicial source said on Thursday.Five people aged between 13 and 22 were killed and more than 80 injured on Aug. 22 when fans thronged an entrance of a stadium in Algiers where France-based rapper Soolking was performing.Samy Benchikh, the former head of Algeria's public body for organizing concerts, was sentenced to six months in prison, with three months suspended, a judicial source said on condition of anonymity.The manager of a ticket company was handed six months in jail with four months suspended, and the same sentence was handed to the head of the company handling security at the event.All three were charged with "negligence"...
November 29, 2019

3 sentenced to prison over Algeria concert stampede deaths

Masked Iraqis wearing military fatigues are pictured scuffling with youths during anti-government demonstrations in the central holy shrine city of Najaf on Friday. — AFP
Iraq PM says will resign after bloody protests
BAGHDAD — Iraq's embattled premier announced on Friday he would resign in keeping with the wishes of the country's top cleric, as renewed violence added to a soaring death toll in two months of anti-government protests.Adel Abdel Mahdi's written statement was greeted with cheers and blaring music across Baghdad's iconic Tahrir Square, where demonstrators have massed since early October against a ruling class deemed corrupt and in hock to foreign powers."I will submit to the esteemed parliament a formal letter requesting my resignation from the premiership," Abdel Mahdi wrote, just hours after Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani used his weekly sermon to urge parliament to replace the cabinet.Abdel Mahdi would be the first prime minister to step down since Iraq became a...
November 29, 2019

Iraq PM says will resign after bloody protests

Sudanese students protest on the roof of a building overseeing a mosque in the capital Khartoum as hardline cleric Mohamed Ali Jazuli, not pictured, gives a sermon during Friday prayers. — AFP
Bashir's NCP condemns Sudan 'illegal govt' move to scrap party
KHARTOUM — Ousted President Omar Bashir's party on Friday condemned Sudan's new "illegal government" for ordering its closure and the dismantling of his regime that ruled the country for 30 years.Sudan's new authorities on Thursday approved a law ordering the former leader's National Congress Party to be dissolved, its assets confiscated and the regime dismantled as demanded by the protest movement that led to Bashir's fall in April.On Friday, the NCP accused the authorities of trying to confiscate its properties and assets to tackle Sudan's economic crisis which it said the new government had failed to tackle."To rely on the assets of the party, if there are any, is nothing more than a moral scandal, an act of intellectual bankruptcy and a total...
November 29, 2019

Bashir's NCP condemns Sudan 'illegal govt' move to scrap party

Iraqis carry the coffins of anti-government demonstrator killed during protests a day earlier, during a funeral procession in the central holy shrine city of Najaf, on Friday. — AFP
Sistani urges Cabinet change as protesters regroup after crackdown
KARBALA, Iraq — Iraq's top Shiite cleric on Friday urged parliament to replace the Cabinet, after dozens of protesters were killed in one of the bloodiest days of anti-government rallies gripping the country.Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani's weekly sermon gave a major boost to Iraqi demonstrators who have been taking to the streets since early October against a ruling class deemed corrupt and inefficient.The grassroots movement is the largest Iraq has seen in decades but also the deadliest, with nearly 400 people dead and more than 15,000 wounded in the capital and Shiite-majority south, according to an AFP tally.For weeks, Sistani has called for restraint in dealing with demonstrators and has urged political parties get "serious" about reform, but he ramped up demands on...
November 29, 2019

Sistani urges Cabinet change as protesters regroup after crackdown

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