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Iraqi protesters pull down concrete barriers erected by security forces at Baghdad's Khallani square on Saturday. Anti-government demonstrators spread to a second bridge in Iraq's capital after security forces retreated from a main area where they had been clashing. — AFP
Protesters spill back onto bridge in Iraq capital
BAGHDAD — Anti-government demonstrators spread to a second bridge in the Iraqi capital Saturday after security forces retreated from a key area where they had clashed with protesters, AFP correspondents said.Sit-ins have become the go-to tactic for the regime change movement that erupted in early October, with a general strike announced by activists for Sunday.Protesters have occupied Baghdad's Tahrir (Liberation) Square since Oct. 24, spilling over onto four bridges crossing the river Tigris.The bridges link east Baghdad to the city's west, including the Green Zone where the prime minister's office, parliament and foreign embassies are based.Security forces retook three of those bridges and nearby districts more than two weeks ago, pinning the protesters back in Tahrir and...
November 16, 2019

Protesters spill back onto bridge in Iraq capital

Tunisia's President Kais Saied, right, receives Ennahdha leader and parliament speaker Rached Ghannouchi at the presidential palace in the capital's eastern suburb of Carthage on Friday. — AFP
Ennahdha nominee tapped as new Tunisian PM
TUNIS — Tunisia's president tasked Habib Jemli on Friday with forming a government after the Ennahdha party nominated the former secretary of state for the prime minister's job.President Kais Saied, an independent academic elected on Oct. 13, has charged Jemli with forming a new government, the presidency said in a statement.Jemli, 60, who describes himself also as an independent, was nominated by Ennahdha after the party came out top in legislative polls last month.Friday was the deadline for the party to announce its candidate for the premiership.Veteran Ennahdha leader Rached Ghannouchi was himself elected parliament speaker on Wednesday.An agricultural engineer by training, Jemli served as secretary of state at the agriculture ministry from 2011 to 2014 under Ennahdha prime...
November 15, 2019

Ennahdha nominee tapped as new Tunisian PM

Algerian protesters rally to reiterate their opposition to a presidential election in Algiers on Friday. — AFP
Algerians flood streets to protest against December polls
ALGIERS — Demonstrators thronged the streets of the Algerian capital on Friday to renew their opposition to a presidential election they say will keep in power a political elite rejected by the people.The protest came two days ahead of the start of campaigning for the Dec. 12 vote.Demonstrations have gripped Algeria every week since February when protesters flooded the streets of the capital and major cities against former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term in office.The ailing Bouteflika stepped down in April under pressure from the street.Powerful army chief General Ahmed Gaid Salah, the country's main powerbroker in the post-Bouteflika era, has led a push for presidential polls by the end of 2019, after an earlier date was missed because no candidates came...
November 15, 2019

Algerians flood streets to protest against December polls

Behrouz Boochani
Kurdish-Iranian refugee celebrates freedom in New Zealand
WELLINGTON — A Kurdish-Iranian refugee who penned a book on a mobile phone while held in an Australian detention camp said on Friday he was celebrating life "as a free man" in New Zealand.Award-winning author Behrouz Boochani is in Christchurch to attend a literary festival and discuss his work "No Friend but the Mountains" which was painstakingly tapped out on WhatsApp and sent to publishers.Boochani, 35, spent more than six years in the notorious Australian detention center on Papua New Guinea's Manus island after being caught in 2013 in Australian waters on a boat packed with asylum seekers.The book, which has won numerous awards including the Victorian Prize for Literature — Australia's richest literary honor — chronicles his perilous voyage from...
November 15, 2019

Kurdish-Iranian refugee celebrates freedom in New Zealand

Suspected Daesh (the so-called IS) fighters wait to be searched after leaving the militants' last holdout in eastern Syria in this file photo. — AFP
US, Europeans clash on militants' fate in Daesh talks
WASHINGTON — The United States and its European allies clashed on Thursday over what to do with thousands of militants jailed in Syria, with Washington calling a French proposal to try fighters in Iraq "irresponsible."Senior officials from more than 30 countries pledged greater coordination in the campaign against Daesh (the so-called IS) in a meeting in Washington proposed by France, which has been particularly concerned by President Donald Trump's decision last month to pull US troops from Syria.Trump's move allowed an incursion by Turkey aimed at destroying Kurdish guerrillas, who had led the fight against Daesh and run jails for captured extremists in their effectively autonomous area in northern Syria.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pressed the Europeans on foreign...
November 15, 2019

US, Europeans clash on militants' fate in Daesh talks

This Aug. 6, 2019 file photo shows families parting in Istanbul as a refugee boards a bus heading back to Syria. — AFP
40,000 refugees expelled from Istanbul
ISTANBUL — Turkey said on Friday it had expelled more than 40,000 refugees living in Istanbul and sent them back to the provinces where they were initially registered.A campaign was run from July through to the end of October, aimed at reducing the number of refugees in Turkey's biggest city and economic hub.The country hosts some 3.6 million Syrian refugees — more than any other country — though technically they are only under "temporary protection" because the government does not offer them formal refugee status.Under the system, they must stay in the province to which they were initially assigned, and can only visit other cities with short-term passes.The Istanbul governor's office said 42,888 migrants were rounded up by police and sent back to their assigned...
November 15, 2019

40,000 refugees expelled from Istanbul

Mohammed Safadi
Lebanon protesters angered by PM pick
BEIRUT — Lebanese protesters who have been demanding radical reform reacted with anger Friday to the reported designation of a new prime minister they regard as emblematic of a failed political system.According to senior officials speaking on condition of anonymity and Lebanese press reports, key political players agreed that Mohammed Safadi should be tasked with forming the next government.Outgoing Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri resigned on Oct. 29, nearly two weeks into the unprecedented nationwide protests demanding the wholesale removal of a ruling elite seen as corrupt and incompetent.President Michel Aoun has said he will support the formation of a government including technocrats but he has not yet announced consultations over a new line-up and there was no official confirmation...
November 15, 2019

Lebanon protesters angered by PM pick

Two balls of fire are seen following an Israel air strike in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip early on Friday. — AFP
New Israel-Gaza violence tests fragile cease-fire
GAZA CITY — Israel launched fresh strikes against Islamic Jihad targets in Gaza early Friday in response to rocket fire, underscoring the fragility of a cease-fire agreed after an escalation that killed 34 Palestinians.The cease-fire began on Thursday morning following two days of fighting triggered by Israel's targeted killing of an Islamic Jihad commander.The Israeli military said it carried out new strikes overnight against Islamic Jihad, the second most powerful Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip after Hamas.They came after at least seven rockets were fired at Israel from Gaza, two of which were intercepted by air defenses.The military said it "views the violation of the cease-fire and rockets directed at Israel with great severity."It said it was prepared to...
November 15, 2019

New Israel-Gaza violence tests fragile cease-fire

Iraqis take part in a rally in the central holy city of Najaf on Friday to show solidarity with anti-government protesters in the capital Baghdad. — AFP
Iraq 'will never be the same' after protests: Sistani
BAGHDAD — Iraq will never be the same following the weeks of demonstrations in Baghdad and the country's south demanding sweeping reform, its top Shiite cleric said on Friday in his most emphatic endorsement yet of the protest movement.Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani said authorities must respond quickly to the protests which have flooded the capital and cities across the mainly Shiite south in an outpouring of anger over rampant corruption and lack of jobs."If those in power think that they can evade the benefits of real reform by stalling and procrastination, they are delusional," Sistani said in his weekly sermon, delivered by a representative in the Shiite holy city of Karbala."What comes after these protests will not be the same as before, and they should be aware of...
November 15, 2019

Iraq 'will never be the same' after protests: Sistani

US President Donald Trump and Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, take part in a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Wednesday. — AFP
Erdogan says would buy Patriots but won't give up S-400s
ANKARA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan insisted Ankara would not give up the Russian S-400 missile defense system to purchase the equivalent US Patriot missiles in comments published on Thursday."It is out of the question to leave the S-400s and go toward the Patriots when we are at this point" of strengthening relations with Russia, Erdogan told Turkish journalists on board his plane after talks with US President Donald Trump on Wednesday."We said 'But we would buy the Patriots too'. However, we will also have the S-400," he added, quoted by Hurriyet daily.Erdogan had earlier in the interview spoken about Turkey and Russia's improving bilateral relations, focusing on issues such as natural gas and the rising number of Russian tourists coming to...
November 14, 2019

Erdogan says would buy Patriots but won't give up S-400s

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