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An Iraqi demonstrator gestures as he stands next to burning tires in the city of Karbala, south of Iraq's capital Baghdad, on Tuesday. — AFP
Protester killed in Baghdad, dozens wounded across Iraq
BAGHDAD — A protester was shot dead on Tuesday in the Iraqi capital and dozens more were wounded across the country's south, where burning tires blocked highways and thick black smoke blanketed its restive cities.The casualties in clashes with security forces were the latest episode of violence in the nearly two-month-old grassroots movement demanding the total overhaul of Iraq's political class.At least 350 people have been killed and around 15,000 wounded since the protests broke out on Oct. 1 in Baghdad and the Shiite-majority south.The latest victim fell in Baghdad, shot by a rubber bullet near Al-Ahrar bridge, which leads to a cluster of government buildings on the west bank of the river Tigris.Fearing protesters would cross it to storm those offices, security forces have...
November 26, 2019

Protester killed in Baghdad, dozens wounded across Iraq

A Turkish riot police officer uses a non-lethal hand-held weapon during clashes with women's rights activists as they take part in a march towards Taksim Square in Istanbul on Monday. -AFP
Turkish police fire teargas to disperse women's day rally
ISTANBUL - Turkish police fired tear gas to disperse protesters marching in Istanbul on Monday to demand an "end to impunity" for those guilty of violence against women, a problem endemic in Turkey.Some 2,000 people, mostly women, took part in the march to mark the UN-backed International Day for Eliminating Violence against Women.They brandished placards reading "End impunity" while others held up the names of women killed by their current or former partners.The banner at the head of the march read, "We can not tolerate the loss of one more woman."After an initially peaceful gathering, the march turned up Istiklal Avenue, a busy shopping hub, where they were quickly blocked by a wall of police in riot gear who used force to break up the demonstration.An AFP...
November 26, 2019

Turkish police fire teargas to disperse women's day rally

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
Hundreds of Sudanese women march against violence
KHARTOUM — Hundreds of Sudanese women Monday marched in Khartoum to mark International Day for Eliminating Violence against Women, in the first such rally held in the northeast African country in decades.Chanting "Freedom, peace, justice," the catch-cry of the protest movement that led to Omar Bashir's ouster in April, the demonstrators took to the streets in the Burri district, a site of regular anti-Bashir protests earlier this year.Many women, dressed in orange, carried banners that read: "Women's revolution continues" and "We are the revolution, we are the change."Many also carried banners such as "Stop rape of Darfuri Women," as they called for justice for female victims of the war in the western Sudan region."There is an...
November 25, 2019

Hundreds of Sudanese women march against violence

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons headquarters is seen in The Hague in this file photo. — AFP
Chemical warfare watchdog hits back at Syria report doubts
THE HAGUE — The head of the world's chemical weapons watchdog on Monday defended a report into an alleged chlorine attack in Syria, despite allegations of a cover-up by a whistle-blower.Wikileaks published an email from a member of the team that investigated the attack in the town of Douma in April 2018, which accused the body of altering the original findings of investigators to make evidence of a chemical attack seem more conclusive.Russia and its allies have seized on the email and an earlier document which both question the conclusion by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in March 2019 that chlorine was used in Douma.The row added to tensions at the OPCW's annual meeting in The Hague over a new team that will shortly name culprits for attacks in...
November 25, 2019

Chemical warfare watchdog hits back at Syria report doubts

Massoud Molavi
Iran online dissident shot dead in Istanbul: Reports
ISTANBUL — An Iranian man who ran an opposition social media site was gunned down earlier this month in Istanbul, local media reported on Monday.Massoud Molavi, said to be in his mid-30s, was murdered on the street while walking with a friend in the Sisli district of Istanbul on Nov. 14, according to the DHA news agency.Bullet casings were found at the scene. CCTV footage, released by another agency, IHA, appeared to show the moment of the killing.Molavi helped run a channel on Telegram called "Black Box", which published corruption allegations against members of the government, judiciary and intelligence services, and claimed to have contacts within the Revolutionary Guards.Turkish police told DHA that investigations were ongoing, and that they had no information at present on...
November 25, 2019

Iran online dissident shot dead in Istanbul: Reports

American citizen Omar Shakir, center, the director of the New York-based Human Rights Watch for Israel and the Palestinian territories, delivers a speech at Ben Gurion airport on Monday, after being expelled from Israel. — AFP
Israel expels Human Rights Watch country director
TEL AVIV — Israel expelled the country director of Human Rights Watch on Monday after a lengthy court battle over claims he supports a boycott of the Jewish state.American citizen Omar Shakir, the New York-based rights group's director for Israel and the Palestinian territories, arrived at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on Monday afternoon, where he was greeted by around 20 supporters.He denies the allegations and accuses the Israeli government of seeking to suppress dissent."Today culminates a two-and-a-half year effort to deport me over my human rights advocacy, an effort to muzzle Human Rights Watch," Shakir said at the airport."One day you will welcome me here, I hope, when it is a better day — a day in which all people, Israeli and Palestinian, have their...
November 25, 2019

Israel expels Human Rights Watch country director

Lebanese anti-government protesters burn tires to block the road leading to the southern entrance of the northern port city of Tripoli on Monday. — AFP
Lebanon protesters defiant despite Hezbollah attack
BEIRUT — Protesters remained defiant on Monday after supporters of main Shiite groups Hezbollah and Amal attacked demonstrators overnight, sparking a UN call to keep protests peaceful.Demonstrators demanding a complete government overhaul have stayed mobilized since protests began on Oct. 17, but a bitterly divided political class has yet to find a way forward.Frustrated by the stalemate, protesters had called for road blocks and a general strike on Monday, but an attack by supporters of allied parties Hezbollah and Amal on Sunday night weakened the turnout.Political parties "are trying to instill fear in us as a people, so we don't progress and stay at home," said Dany Ayyash, 21, who was blocking a key road in Beirut's Hamra district.But "the attack gave us all...
November 25, 2019

Lebanon protesters defiant despite Hezbollah attack

Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems drive on Red Square in Moscow in this file photo. — AFP
Turkey to test Russian missile defenses despite US threats
ANKARA — Turkey will start testing on Monday its Russian missile defense system, local media reported, despite repeated calls from the United States that it could lead to sanctions.The governor's office in Ankara said on Sunday that military planes, including F-16 fighter jets, would circle the capital on Monday and Tuesday as part of "anti-air defense system tests", without specifying the system.Pro-government newspaper Milliyet confirmed on Monday that it was the S-400 system, bought from Russia earlier this year to the consternation of Turkey's NATO allies.The purchase has raised particular tensions with the US, which argues there is a risk that sensitive technological information could be leaked if the S-400 is used alongside Western systems such as the new F-35...
November 25, 2019

Turkey to test Russian missile defenses despite US threats

Jason Rezaian, former Tehran bureau chief for the Washington Post, who was imprisoned by Iranian authorities in 2014, poses for a portrait at the Washington Post in Washington in this Feb. 20, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Iran rejects US order to pay $180m over reporter's jailing
TEHRAN — Iran on Monday rejected a US court order for Tehran to pay $180 million in damages to a Washington Post reporter for jailing him on espionage charges.Jason Rezaian spent 544 days in an Iranian prison before he was released in January 2016 in exchange for seven Iranians held in the United States.On Friday, a US district court judge ordered damages be paid to Rezaian and his family in compensation for pain and suffering as well as economic losses.The Iranian foreign ministry's spokesman described the journalist's decision to seek damages as "strange"."Mr. Jason Rezaian... was a security convict and the Islamic Republic of Iran commuted his (sentence of maximum punishment) to imprisonment," said spokesman Abbas Mousavi."He was pardoned and despite...
November 25, 2019

Iran rejects US order to pay $180m over reporter's jailing

US citizen Omar Shakir, the New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) director for Israel and the Palestinian territories, waves from a car in Jerusalem on Monday. — AFP
Israel to expel Human Rights Watch country director
JERUSALEM — Israel was set to expel the country director of Human Rights Watch on Monday after a lengthy court battle over claims he supports a boycott of the Jewish state.US citizen Omar Shakir, the New York-based rights group's director for Israel and the Palestinian territories, denies the claims and accuses the Israeli government of seeking to suppress dissent.Shakir's deportation, expected in the afternoon, would be the first from inside the country under Israel's controversial 2017 law allowing the expulsion of foreigners who support a boycott, according to authorities.The European Union, United Nations and others have criticized the looming expulsion, with the UN warning of a "shrinking space for human rights defenders to operate" in Israel and the...
November 25, 2019

Israel to expel Human Rights Watch country director

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