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Supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chant slogans as they demonstrate their solidarity with him outside his official residency in Jerusalem on Thursday. Sign in Hebrew reads:
Netanyahu indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust
JERUSALEM — Israel's embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was indicted on a range of corruption charges Thursday, potentially spelling an end to his decades-long political career.Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit "decided to file charges against the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for offenses of receiving a bribe, fraud, and breach of trust," a Justice Ministry statement said.Netanyahu, who strongly denies all the charges, becomes the first Israeli prime minister to be indicted while in office.Right-winger Netanyahu, who is nicknamed "Mr. Security" and "King Bibi" and has been in power since 2009, is Israel's longest-serving prime minister and dominates the country's political scene.The indictment comes as Israel faces a potential...
November 21, 2019

Netanyahu indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust

Alwaleed Philanthropies joins the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund polio initiative
ABU DHABI — Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, chairman of Alwaleed Philanthropies, joined Bill Gates and leading figures from the international community to announce the first round of funding to a major global initiative to end polio.The commitment was made at Reaching the Last Mile forum in Abu Dhabi, hosted by Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi.The Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) ‘Endgame Strategy 2019-2023’ aims to tackle the final obstacles to the eradication of polio and sustain a polio-free future.Bill Gates, representing the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which is one of the leading partners of the GPEI, announced and recognised the first funders of the strategy and called for more donors to come forward in a key pledge moment for the...
November 21, 2019

Alwaleed Philanthropies joins the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund polio initiative

An Iranian woman walks past a mural painting of the Islamic republic's national flag in central Tehran on Thursday. — aFP
Germany condemns 'disproportionate action' by Iran in quelling protests
BERLIN — Germany on Thursday condemned Iranian security forces for using excessive force as they sought to quell protests sparked by a hike in petrol prices."We are shocked by reports of the deaths of more than 100 victims, and condemn the disproportionate action by Iranian security forces. The right to peaceful protest must be respected," a foreign ministry spokeswoman said in a statement."We call on the Iranian security forces to exercise the greatest possible restraint," she added.Demonstrations erupted in sanctions-hit Iran on Friday, hours after the price of petrol was raised by as much as 200 percent, and unrest spread to scores of urban centers.Officials have confirmed five deaths, but Amnesty International said on Tuesday that more than 100 demonstrators were...
November 21, 2019

Germany condemns 'disproportionate action' by Iran in quelling protests

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters of his Likud party during a conference in the coastal city of Tel Aviv in this Nov. 17, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Netanyahu indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust
JERUSALEM — Israel's attorney general indicted Benjamin Netanyahu on a range of corruption charges on Thursday, the justice ministry announced, potentially spelling an end to the prime minister's decades-long political career.Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit "decided to file charges against the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for offenses of receiving a bribe, fraud, and breach of trust," a ministry statement said.Netanyahu, who strongly denies all the charges, becomes the first Israeli prime minister to be indicted while in office.Rightwinger Netanyahu, who has been in power since 2009, is Israel's longest-serving prime minister and dominates the country's political scene.The indictment comes as Israel faces a potential third election in a year, with...
November 21, 2019

Netanyahu indicted for bribery, fraud and breach of trust

Former Cumhuriyet journalists speak to the press after their release from jail in this Sept. 12, 2019 file photo.
Turkey re-convicts journalists despite higher court ruling
ISTANBUL — A Turkish court confirmed the convictions against former journalists from Turkey's oldest newspaper on Thursday, despite their sentences being overturned by a higher court.The judgment against 12 ex-staffers from Cumhuriyet was described as "scandalous" by rights groups, and further evidence of the sweeping crackdown on media freedom under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.The 12 were convicted last year of supporting, through their news coverage, three organizations that Turkey views as terrorist groups: the Kurdistan Workers' Party, the ultra-left Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front, and the Gulen movement blamed for a failed coup in 2016.They were sentenced to jail terms ranging from two-and-a-half years to more than eight years.In September,...
November 21, 2019

Turkey re-convicts journalists despite higher court ruling

A general view of the US Embassy in Ankara in this Aug. 20, 2018 file photo. — AFP
Turkey sentences 3 over US embassy shooting
ANKARA — A Turkish court sentenced three men to prison on Thursday for shooting at the US embassy in Ankara last year.They got sentences ranging from just over three years to more than 10 years for "membership in a terrorist organization" and "actions aimed at sabotaging relations with a foreign country", according to state news agency Anadolu.The US embassy was fired upon from a car on Aug. 20, 2018, without any casualties.One of the men told the court he carried out "this stupid action" due to "patriotism" and alcohol."Whatever decision you take, long live the state," he said, according to Anadolu.At the time, the government described the shooting as an attempt to "sow chaos" at a moment when relations between Turkey and the...
November 21, 2019

Turkey sentences 3 over US embassy shooting

Iraqi anti-government protesters are pictured where they sleep on the side of a road surrounded by graffiti the Iraqi capital Baghdad's Tahrir square on Wednesday. — AFP
Death toll rises to 4 in Baghdad protests
BAGHDAD — Four protesters were killed and dozens wounded in overnight clashes with security forces in Iraq's capital Baghdad, security and medical sources said on Thursday.Anti-government demonstrators have spread from their main protest camp in Tahrir (Liberation) Square onto three bridges linking the banks of the river Tigris.Security forces have erected concrete barriers on the bridges to hold protesters back, and late on Wednesday they fired tear gas and live ammunition at crowds gathering on Al-Sinek and Al-Ahrar bridges.One protester was shot dead by a live round and three died from wounds sustained by tear gas canisters.Rights groups have slammed security forces for firing the military-grade gas grenades directly at protesters instead of into the air.When shot at close range,...
November 21, 2019

Death toll rises to 4 in Baghdad protests

A school girl walks past flaming tires set by anti-government protesters to block roads in the southern city of Sidon in this Nov. 19, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Lebanese pupils protest against 'outdated' curriculum
BEIRUT — Several hundred school pupils protested on Thursday in Lebanon against what they described as an outdated curriculum that makes no mention of the multi-confessional country's 15-year civil war.The protest outside the education ministry in Beirut was the latest in a nationwide anti-government street movement to have gripped Lebanon since Oct. 17."Our history books need to be thrown out," 16-year-old Jana Jezzine said as around her protesters waved the national flag and one woman made a show of burning a schoolbook.History lessons in school textbooks stop with the withdrawal of French troops in 1946 -- three years after the end of France's 23-year mandate over Lebanon.But a lack of consensus over a common version of the 1975-1990 civil war in the country has led...
November 21, 2019

Lebanese pupils protest against 'outdated' curriculum

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, President Reuven Rivlin, center, and Benny Gantz, leader of Blue and White party, attend a memorial ceremony for late Israeli President Shimon Peres, in Jerusalem in this Sept. 19, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Bidding to avoid elections, Israel president asks parliament to find PM
JERUSALEM — Israel's President Reuven Rivlin tasked parliament on Thursday with finding a new prime minister, as he sought to avoid new elections after incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu and rival Benny Gantz each failed to form a government."Starting today and for 21 days the decision of who to task with forming the government is in the hands of the members of the Knesset (parliament)," Rivlin said, a day after Gantz admitted he would be unable to build a governing coalition.Parliament will now have until Dec. 11 to find a candidate who can command the support of the majority of the country's 120 MPs or a new general election will be called for early 2020.It would be the third such poll within 12 months.Rivlin, who has been urging a compromise to break the political...
November 21, 2019

Bidding to avoid elections, Israel president asks parliament to find PM

An aerial view taken on Thursday shows the charred remains of a tent following Syrian regime bombardment on a makeshift camp in the village of Qah near the Turkish border in the northwestern Idlib province. — AFP
Russia air raids, regime strikes in Syria kill 21
BEIRUT — Attacks by Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces and air raids by his ally Russia killed at least 21 civilians including 10 children in rebel-held Idlib province on Wednesday, a monitoring group said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, in an updated toll, said a ground-to-ground missile fired by regime forces that hit a makeshift camp for the displaced near Qah village close to the border with Turkey killed 15 civilians, including six children, and wounded around 40 others.The missile crashed near a maternity facility in the camp, it said.Elsewhere, "Russian military aircraft" targeted the town of Maaret Al-Numan in the south of the province, the Observatory said, and "six civilians were killed, among them four children".A number of people were...
November 21, 2019

Russia air raids, regime strikes in Syria kill 21

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