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Iranian protesters gather around a burning car during a demonstration against an increase in gasoline prices in Tehran in this Nov. 16, 2019 file photo. — AFP
HRW says Iran 'deliberately' suppressing unrest death, arrest tolls
BEIRUT — Human Rights Watch on Wednesday accused the Iranian authorities of "deliberately covering up" deaths and arrests during a crackdown on demonstrations across the country earlier this month.Protests broke out across sanction-hit Iran on Nov. 15, hours after a shock announcement of fuel price rise of up to 200 percent.Reports of deaths and arrests emerged as security forces were deployed to rein in demonstrations, which turned violent in some areas, with dozens of banks, petrol pumps and police stations torched.The extent of the crackdown is unclear, however, primarily due to an internet outage imposed during the unrest in a step seen as aimed at curbing the spread of videos of the violence.HRW said the authorities were "deliberately covering up the scale of the mass...
November 27, 2019

HRW says Iran 'deliberately' suppressing unrest death, arrest tolls

 Iraqi demonstrators help an injured youth during clashes with security forces in the capital Baghdad's Al-Rasheed street near Al-Ahrar bridge on Tuesday. -AFP
Iraq's deadly unrest closes roads, schools across south
KARBALA, Iraq — Iraqi protesters sealed streets with burning tires across the country's restive south on Wednesday, as schools and public offices stayed shut a day after anti-government rallies devolved into bloodshed.For nearly two months, the country's capital and Shiite-majority south have been gripped by the largest protests since the 2003 US-led invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein.The rallies have paralyzed daily life in many towns and cities, with schools intermittently closed, streets shuttered and government offices empty.On Wednesday, religious authorities in Iraq's holy city of Karbala ordered their network of private schools there, as well as in nearby Babylon and the second holy city of Najaf, kept shut for two days.They feared a repeat of the previous day's...
November 27, 2019

Iraq's deadly unrest closes roads, schools across south

Iraqi youths duck as they run off amid clashes between anti-government demonstrators and security forces in the capital Baghdad's Al-Rasheed street near Al-Ahrar bridge on Tuesday. — AFP
Two dead as bloody protests hit Iraq cities
BAGHDAD — Two protesters were killed on Tuesday as anti-government demonstrations took a more violent turn in Iraq's capital and restive south, where burning tires blocked highways and thick black smoke blanketed cities.The deaths in clashes with security forces sent the toll from nearly two months of protests to more than 350 people dead, according to an AFP tally.In the Shiite holy city of Karbala, one person was killed as protests became chaotic "clashes" with security forces, a medical source said.There were no immediate details about the victim's identity or cause of death, but the medic said the toll was likely to rise further.A correspondent saw riot police fire live rounds both into the air and directly at crowds of teenage protesters. At least one demonstrator...
November 26, 2019

Two dead as bloody protests hit Iraq cities

Destroyed vehicles following a car bomb attack are seen at a local market in the Turkish-held Syrian Kurdish town of Tel Hal along the border with Turkey in the northeastern Hassakeh province on Tuesday. — AFP
17 killed by car bomb in Turkey-controlled region of Syria
ISTANBUL — A car bomb killed at least 17 people and wounded 20 others in the Turkish-controlled region of northern Syria on Tuesday, Turkey's defense ministry said.The attack took place in the Tal Halaf village west of the city of Ras Al-Ayn, which is now controlled by the Turkish military after its offensive in October, the ministry said on its official Twitter account.It blamed the attack on the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), which Ankara accuses of being the Syrian offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) that has waged an insurgency against Turkey since 1984."The PKK/YPG terror group continues its car bombings aimed at civilians. The child murderers this time detonated a car bomb in Tal Halaf village west of Ras Al-Ayn, killing 17 people and...
November 26, 2019

17 killed by car bomb in Turkey-controlled region of Syria

A Palestinian protester holds up a placard in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday as Palestinians stage a
Thousands of Palestinians protest US move on Israeli settlements
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinians burned effigies of US President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday, as thousands protested against a shift in US policy on Israeli settlements.Breaking with decades of international consensus, Pompeo on Nov. 18 said the US would no longer consider Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories illegal.Prime Minister Netanyahu hailed the decision, but Palestinians were outraged and on Tuesday thousands gathered in the occupied territories to protest against the decision.Palestinian prime minister Mohammed Shtayyeh led the protests in Ramallah in the central West Bank, telling the crowds they would never accept the US position."We are here to say with a loud and clear voice that...
November 26, 2019

Thousands of Palestinians protest US move on Israeli settlements

Sudanese women march in Khartoum to mark International Day for Eliminating Violence against Women, in the first such rally held in the northeast African country in decades, on Monday. — AFP
Sudan Cabinet scraps law abusing women's rights
KHARTOUM — Sudan's Cabinet on Tuesday scrapped a controversial law that severely curtailed women's rights during the 30-year tenure of deposed Omar Bashir, state media reported.Thousands of women were flogged, fined and even jailed during Bashir's iron-fisted rule under the archaic public order law for "indecent and immoral acts"."The council of ministers agreed in an extraordinary meeting today to cancel the public order law across all provinces," the official SUNA news agency reported.The Cabinet's decision is still to be ratified by the ruling sovereign council, which is an 11-member joint civilian-military body.Bashir seized power in a coup in 1989, severely restricting the role of women in Sudan for decades.During his rule, authorities implemented...
November 26, 2019

Sudan Cabinet scraps law abusing women's rights

Anti-government protesters in Lebanon burn tires to block the road leading to the southern entrance of the northern port city of Tripoli, Monday evening. — AFP
Hariri won't head next govt; demonstrators stay defiant
BEIRUT — Lebanon's outgoing prime minister on Tuesday announced that he will not head the next government, a move he said aims to expedite the formation a new Cabinet in the protest-hit country.Saad Hariri had submitted his administration's resignation on Oct. 29, bowing to popular pressure from a nationwide street movement demanding a complete government haul.Nearly a month later, the country's bitterly divided political leaders have yet to name a new premier or form a new government, frustrating demonstrators who have staged persistent protests since Oct. 17.In response to the "irresponsible practices" of political leaders, Hariri said he felt compelled to make his intentions known."I announce to the Lebanese people that I strongly adhere to the rule of...
November 26, 2019

Hariri won't head next govt; demonstrators stay defiant

A man walks past a money exchange in Beirut in this file photo. — AFP
Lebanon minister warns health sector at threat over dollar shortage
BEIRUT — Lebanon's health minister on Tuesday urged the central bank to release US dollars over a hard currency shortage limiting medical imports to the protest-hit country."The sector is under serious threat," caretaker minister Jamal Jabak, who is close to the powerful Iran-backed movement Hezbollah, told a news conference."A hospital without medical supplies cannot operate."The Lebanese pound has been pegged to the greenback at around 1,500 for two decades and the currencies are used interchangeably in daily life.But amid a deepening economic crisis, banks have gradually been reducing access to dollars in recent months, forcing importers to resort to money changers offering a higher exchange rate and sparking price hikes.On the open market, the dollar has been...
November 26, 2019

Lebanon minister warns health sector at threat over dollar shortage

An Iraqi man and woman drink tea in a marketplace in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, the capital of the Nineveh province, on Monday. — AFP
Amid regime change demands, Iraq's Mosul gets not one, but two governors
MOSUL, Iraq — Would the real Mosul governor please stand up? Two men are claiming to rule Iraq's northern province, gripped by a head-spinning drama against the backdrop of anti-government protests elsewhere in the country.Mosul has been insulated from mass protests demanding regime change that have rocked Iraq's capital and Shiite-majority south since Oct. 1.But it is dealing with its own political showdown, with two men on Sunday holding back-to-back press conferences to claim they were the city's rightful governor.In one corner is Mansur Al-Marid — the 54-year-old incumbent governor seen as close to both the Hashed Al-Shaabi paramilitary force and influential neighbor Iran."I'm the legitimate governor," he said, denying the authenticity of a resignation...
November 26, 2019

Amid regime change demands, Iraq's Mosul gets not one, but two governors

Relatives of Palestinian prisoner Sami Abu Diyak mourn at his house in Saylat Al-Dahr town, south of Jenin city in the West Bank, on Tuesday, after news of his death of cancer in an Israeli jail. — AFP
Palestinian prisoner held in Israel dies after cancer battle
RAMALLAH, West Bank — A Palestinian convicted over the killing of three Israelis died of cancer in custody on Tuesday, officials said.The death, which sparked Palestinian accusations of neglect, comes amid heightened tension with protests already scheduled in multiple places in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday.Israel's Prison Authority said a seriously ill unnamed "security prisoner" died after being transferred to an Israeli hospital.Official Palestinian news agency Wafa identified him as Sami Abu Diyak, 36, saying he had suffered from terminal cancer and had been refused compassionate leave to be with his family.He was arrested in 2002, during the second Palestinian intifada, or uprising.The Prison Authority said he had been convicted for killing three people.The...
November 26, 2019

Palestinian prisoner held in Israel dies after cancer battle

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