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Kurdish mourners attend a funeral for people killed by Turkish forces in this file photo. — AFP
As West watches in silence, Turkey continues to persecute Kurds
JEDDAH — The Kurds are one of the indigenous peoples and inhabit a mountainous region straddling the borders of Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia.Between 25 and 35 million Kurds make up the fourth-largest ethnic group in the Middle East, but they have never obtained a permanent nation state.Today, they form a distinctive community, united through race, culture and language and the majority of them are Sunni Muslims.The Kurds are one of the most persecuted minorities of our time but nowhere is their future more threatened than in Turkey where Kurds constitute one quarter of the country’s population. Kurds lost their lands when the Ottoman Empire took over most Kurdish-held territory in the 1500s. And the empire’s defeat in World War I also dealt a blow to the Kurds. Under the 1920...
November 13, 2019

As West watches in silence, Turkey continues to persecute Kurds

Palestinian mourners pray over three bodies during a funeral in Gaza City on Wednesday. — AFP
Deadly Israel-Gaza escalation rages for second day
GAZA CITY — Exchanges of fire triggered by Israel's targeted killing of a top militant in Gaza raged for a second day Wednesday and showed little sign of easing, with 22 Palestinians killed.Fresh rocket barrages were fired at Israel, which responded with strikes on what it said were Islamic Jihad militant sites and rocket-launching squads in the Gaza Strip.Air raid sirens wailed and fireballs exploded as air defense missiles intercepted rockets, sending Israelis rushing to bomb shelters.In Gaza, residents surveyed damage and mourned the dead outside a mortuary and at funerals.UN envoy Nickolay Mladenov was expected in Cairo for talks on halting the fighting, a diplomatic source said, but a source close to the discussions warned the risk of further escalation remained high.In comments...
November 13, 2019

Deadly Israel-Gaza escalation rages for second day

Iraqi protesters chant slogans and wave their country's national flags during ongoing anti-government demonstrations in the southern city of Basra, on Wednesday. — AFP
Iraq demonstrations swell as Baghdad faces renewed pressure
BAGHDAD — Anti-government rallies swelled in Iraq's capital and south on Wednesday as Baghdad faced new pressure from both the street and the United Nations to respond seriously to weeks of demonstrations.Protests demanding a new leadership have rocked the capital and Shiite-majority south for weeks, the crowds undeterred by government pledges of reform and the deaths of more than 300 people.They dimmed for a few days following a deadly crackdown by security forces in Baghdad and major southern cities but flared again Wednesday with demonstrations by striking students and teachers."We're here to back the protesters and their legitimate demands, which include teachers' rights," said Aqeel Atshan, a professor on strike in Baghdad's Tahrir (Liberation) Square, the...
November 13, 2019

Iraq demonstrations swell as Baghdad faces renewed pressure

Lebanese demonstrators stand on a traffic sign on the road leading to the Presidential Palace in Baabda, on the eastern outskirts of Beirut, on Wednesday. — AFP
Lebanon protests flare after president shuns demands
BEIRUT — Lebanese protesters blocked main roads on Wednesday, angered by what they viewed as the president ignoring their demands in nearly a month of rallies, and after a man was shot dead.Hundreds marched toward the palace of President Michel Aoun in the town of Baabda outside the capital, where security forces laid coils of barbed wire across the access road.Aoun had said on television the previous night that Lebanese who did not see any decent person in power should "emigrate" — a comment that, despite the presidency scrambling to clarify it, immediately sent protesters onto the streets.One man died of gunshot wounds overnight after the army opened fire to disperse protesters south of the capital, in the second such death since the start of the largely peaceful...
November 13, 2019

Lebanon protests flare after president shuns demands

A general view taken from Western Tehran shows a blanket of brown-white smog covering the city as heavy pollution hit the Iranian capital on Wednesday. — AFP
Air pollution shuts schools in Iran's capital
TEHRAN — Schools in Tehran were ordered to be closed on Wednesday after the Iranian capital was cloaked in dangerously high levels of air pollution, authorities said.Governor Anoushiravan Mohseni-Bandpey said kindergartens, preschools and primary schools would be shut in the city and the counties of Gharchak, Pishva and Varamin."The air quality index for the city of Tehran still has not passed the unhealthy status for sensitive groups," he was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA.Average concentrations of hazardous airborne particles hit 133 micrograms per cubic meter in the city and were as high as 150 for 10 districts, he said.That is far above the World Health Organization's recommended maximum of 25 micrograms per cubic meter on average over a 24-hour...
November 13, 2019

Air pollution shuts schools in Iran's capital

Algerian protesters chant anti-government slogans during a protest near the parliament building in Algiers in this Oct. 13, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Algerian energy law fuels anger on streets
ALGIERS — A draft law on Algeria's oil and gas sector has been met with hostility by an anti-regime protest movement that fears "the nation's wealth" is being sold off to multinational companies.But experts say the pushback from the streets is not entirely justified, seeing it rather as a symptom of the distrust that dogs any decision taken by authorities deemed "illegitimate" by opponents.For nearly nine months Algeria — Africa's third-largest oil producer and a top 10 global gas producer — has been swept by an unprecedented popular movement challenging a regime in place since independence from France in 1962.The draft energy law, which has not been officially published, was sent to Algeria's Cabinet on Oct. 14.Since then, it has been added to the...
November 13, 2019

Algerian energy law fuels anger on streets

US Congressman expresses concern over Erdogan’s visit
WASHINGTON — American lawmakers across the party lines are up in arms against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to the United States. Rep. Michael McCaul, the top Republican member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, warned Erdogan ahead of the protests that “it is imperative that all representatives of the Turkish government respect the United States’ laws, notably the right to peacefully protest. The American people will not tolerate visitors disregarding our laws.” Turkey has taken numerous actions that harm NATO, McCaul said, which include “their purchase of the Russian S-400 air defense system; spurious charges against US Embassy staff; and rampant jailing of journalists.”“President Erdogan must reverse course and recommit to NATO and our bilateral...
November 13, 2019

US Congressman expresses concern over Erdogan’s visit

A Lebanese youth waves a national flag in front of burning tires blocking the Beirut-Tripoli highway in the coastal town of Ghazir, north of the port city of Junieh, during continuing anti-government protests across Lebanon on Wednesday. -AFP
Man shot dead as Lebanese army disperse protesters
BEIRUT - A man was shot dead south of Beirut after the army opened fire to disperse protesters blocking roads, Lebanese state media said Wednesday, nearly a month into an unprecedented anti-graft street movement.The victim "succumbed to his injuries" in hospital, the National News Agency said, the second death during the nationwide protests that have paralyzed the country.The army said in a statement that it had arrested a soldier after he opened fire in the coastal town of Khalde, just below the capital, to clear protesters "injuring one person".Protesters have been demanding the ouster of a generation of politicians seen by demonstrators as inefficient and corrupt, in a movement that has been largely peaceful.On Tuesday night, street protests erupted after President...
November 13, 2019

Man shot dead as Lebanese army disperse protesters

An Israeli missile launched from the Iron Dome defense missile system, designed to intercept and destroy incoming short-range rockets and artillery shells, is pictured in the southern Israeli city of Sderot on Tuesday. -AFP
10 Gazans dead as Israel hit on militant chief sparks rocket barrage
GAZA CITY, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES - Israel's military killed a commander from Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad in a strike on his home in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, triggering exchanges of fire in a violent escalation that left another nine Gazans dead.The targeted strike prompted a retaliatory barrage of almost 200 rockets fired into Israel, followed by Israeli air raids. Gaza's health ministry reported a total of 10 people killed and more than 40 wounded in the Palestinian enclave.Israel said its air strikes targeted Islamic Jihad militant sites as well as rocket-launching squads.The rocket fire into Israel caused damage and a number of injuries, with at least one rocket hitting a house and another narrowly missing passing cars on a highway.A factory in the city of...
November 13, 2019

10 Gazans dead as Israel hit on militant chief sparks rocket barrage

Iraqis march with lit candles during a symbolic funeral in honor of protesters killed during anti-government demonstrations in the southern city of Basra on Tuesday. -AFP
Iraqi protesters rally as UN steps up mediation efforts
BAGHDAD - Iraqi protesters shut down state institutions Tuesday as the United Nations stepped up pressure on the government to enact a raft of reforms in response to anti-government rallies.Backed by the country's top Shiite authority, the UN's phased plan demands an immediate end to violence that has killed more than 300 people since protests erupted in October.It comes just days after Iraq's influential neighbor to the east Iran brokered an agreement among Iraq's main political forces to close ranks around the government.As night fell on Tuesday in Baghdad, security forces fired live rounds, tear gas canisters and stun grenades from behind concrete barriers to disperse demonstrators near their main gathering place in Tahrir Square.The mostly young demonstrators scattered...
November 13, 2019

Iraqi protesters rally as UN steps up mediation efforts

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