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Dr. Anwar Gargash, UAE minister of state for foreign affairs and international cooperation, addresses the sixth annual Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate, hosted by the Emirates Policy Centre on Sunday. — Courtesy photo
UAE expects 'decisive' twelve months ahead, Dr. Gargash
ABU DHABI — Dr. Anwar Gargash, UAE minister of state for foreign affairs and international cooperation, Sunday morning addressed the sixth annual Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate, hosted by the Emirates Policy Centre.In his speech, Dr. Gargash reviewed regional developments and expressed optimism regarding the potential for significant progress over the next year, noting, "We have reached critical junctures in major conflicts and challenges across our region."On Iran, Dr. Gargash emphasized to the audience the necessity of diplomacy and de-escalation. He called for policymakers to explore constructive ideas, saying that they are needed now more than ever in order to create a "new, more stable regional order in which all countries will be able to thrive."He added that any...
November 10, 2019

UAE expects 'decisive' twelve months ahead, Dr. Gargash

Iraqi medical students wave the national flag as they take part in ongoing anti-government protests at their campus in the southern city of Basra, on Sunday. Iraqi protesters struggled to keep up their anti-government sit-ins following a deadly crackdown by security forces. — AFP
Iraqis keep up sit-ins amid fears of crackdown
BAGHDAD — Iraqi anti-government protesters clashed with security forces and kept up their sit-ins Sunday, as a rights group warned a deadly crackdown could spiral into a 'massacre'.Mass rallies calling for an overhaul of the ruling system have rocked the capital Baghdad and the Shiite-majority south since early October, but political forces closed ranks this week to defend the government.The consensus seems to have paved the way for a crackdown, and 12 protesters were killed on Saturday when security forces cleared out protest sites, medical sources said.Nine were killed in Baghdad, most struck in the head by tear gas canisters, and three died in the southern city of Basra.Demonstrators tried to regroup on Sunday in Baghdad's main protest camp at Tahrir (Liberation) Square,...
November 10, 2019

Iraqis keep up sit-ins amid fears of crackdown

An Israeli soldier closes a border gate on the Israeli side of the border at the Jordan Valley site of Naharayim, also known as Baqura in Jordan, east of the Jordan river on Sunday. -AFP
Farmers blocked as Israel-Jordan enclave deal expires
NAHARAYIM, ISRAEL - Israelis were prevented from entering Jordanian border enclaves on Sunday after a deal allowing farmers to work land there expired, 25 years after a landmark peace treaty.Since the two countries signed the deal in 1994, Jordan has allowed Israeli farmers access to the territories of Ghumar in the north and Baqura in the south under a renewable 25-year arrangement.In October last year however, Jordan's King Abdullah said his country had notified Israel that it wants them back.An AFP journalist in northern Israel on Sunday said the yellow gate to a bridge over the river dividing the two countries, long the portal for Israeli farmers to access Baqura, was locked.Baqura, known in Hebrew as Naharayim, lines on a spit of land where the Jordan and Yarmuk rivers meet.The...
November 10, 2019

Farmers blocked as Israel-Jordan enclave deal expires

Anti-government demonstrators chant slogans during a protest on Saturday in the northern port city of Tripoli. -AFP
Fuel shortage, price hikes squeeze protest-hit Lebanon
BEIRUT - A rationing of dollars by banks in protest-hit Lebanon sparked growing alarm on Sunday as some petrol pumps ran dry and grocery stores hiked prices.The president and banking officials responded by pledging to take steps to improve the situation and help businesses to stay open.For two decades, the Lebanese pound has been pegged to the greenback and the currencies are used interchangeably in daily life.But banks have been reducing access to dollars since the end of the summer, following fears of declining central bank reserves.Access was further limited this week after banks reopened for the first time since an unprecedented popular uprising began on October 17.On Saturday, several petrol stations ran out of fuel because of a shortage of dollars needed to pay for imports, a...
November 10, 2019

Fuel shortage, price hikes squeeze protest-hit Lebanon

Iraqi protesters run for cover from teargas fired by security forces in Al-Khalani square in central Baghdad on Sunday. -AFP
Iraqis struggle to keep up sit-ins after deadly crackdown
BAGHDAD - Iraqi protesters struggled to keep up their anti-government sit-ins Sunday following a deadly crackdown by security forces that Amnesty International warned could turn into a "bloodbath".Seven protesters died on Saturday in Baghdad and the southern city of Basra in the latest violence to hit the wave of popular protests that have shaken the country since early October.The United Nations warned of a spreading "climate of fear" and its top official in Iraq, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, said it was receiving "daily reports of killings, kidnappings, arbitrary arrests, beatings and intimidation of protesters".Security forces early Sunday deployed tear gas in the southern city of Nasiriyah to keep back a crowd trying to shut down the education...
November 10, 2019

Iraqis struggle to keep up sit-ins after deadly crackdown

A wounded Iraqi demonstrator rushes towards an ambulance during clashes with Iraqi forces in Al-Khalani square in central Baghdad on Saturday. Iraqi forces unleashed live ammunition as they pushed towards the capital's main anti-government protest camp, after political leaders agreed to stand up the government by any means — including force. — AFP
Iraq forces clear protest sites as leaders reach deal to end rallies
BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces fired live ammunition Saturday as they pushed towards Baghdad's main anti-government protest camp, after political leaders agreed to stand by the Cabinet by any means — including force.Gunfire and steady booms of stun grenades and tear gas rang out as security units approached Tahrir (Liberation) Square, ground zero for the month-long movement demanding regime change.Three protesters were killed Saturday in Baghdad, medics and police sources told AFP, as Iraqi security forces cleared streets around Tahrir Square.Two suffered bullet wounds and the third died when a tear gas canister pierced his skull, the sources said, adding that at least 80 more protesters were wounded.On Saturday afternoon, AFP correspondents saw people shot in the chest collapse to the...
November 09, 2019

Iraq forces clear protest sites as leaders reach deal to end rallies

Iraqi protesters rest in front of a mural in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on Friday as the Iraqi capital braces for another day of anti-government demonstrations. -AFP
Iraq forces retake key bridges from protesters
BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces wrested back control on Saturday of three bridges in the heart of Baghdad that had been partially occupied by anti-government protesters in recent days, AFP correspondents said.They retook the Al-Sinek, Al-Shuhada and Al-Ahrar bridges over the River Tigris that link the east bank, where the main protest camps are located, with neighborhoods on the west bank that are home to government offices and foreign embassies.Amid volleys of tear gas, security forces chased demonstrators back onto Al-Rasheed Street, one of Baghdad's oldest and most celebrated thoroughfares.Protesters still occupy part of Al-Jumhuriyah (Republic) Bridge, the southernmost of the capital's bridges and the closest to the main protest camp in Tahrir (Liberation) Square.Over the...
November 09, 2019

Iraq forces retake key bridges from protesters

 Kurdish demonstrators hurl rocks at a Turkish military vehicle on Friday, during a joint Turkish-Russian patrol near the town of Al-Muabbadah in the northeastern part of Hassakah on the Syrian border with Turkey. -AFP
Kurds hurl rocks at Russian-Turkish Syria patrol
MAABDA, SYRIA — Kurdish protesters hurled rocks Friday at Turkish military vehicles in northeastern Syria during a patrol in which one civilian died when he was run over by a personnel carrier.A small group of people pelted the convoy with rocks and shoes as it drove by near the town of Maabda, close to the Turkish border, AFP correspondents reported.A young man was run over by one of the large armored vehicles and rushed to hospital in the town of Derik."He died there of internal bleeding," the monitoring group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.Kurdish villagers have given a similarly tough reception to joint Russian-Turkish patrols in other locations.Turkish forces and their proxies — former Syrian rebels hired as a ground force by Ankara — launched a deadly...
November 09, 2019

Kurds hurl rocks at Russian-Turkish Syria patrol

Lebanese demonstrators gather during an anti-government protest in the northern Lebanese town of Amioun near the port city of Tripoli on Friday. -AFP
Students ramp up party mood at Tripoli protests
TRIPOLI, LEBANON — The main square in Tripoli feels like a fairground during the day, when thousands of skiving schoolchildren and students meet to throw their weight behind Lebanon's anti-government protest movement.With their schoolbags on their backs and Lebanese flag in hand, Al-Nur square is abuzz with the laughter and chants of the northern city's young people.Girls — veiled or not — take turns to have the red, white and green colors of the national flag painted on their face while others dance to pop music or pose for selfies.Since Wednesday, university and high school students across the country have massively deserted their classrooms to join nationwide streets protests."What we learn here on the square is more important than what we learn in school," says...
November 09, 2019

Students ramp up party mood at Tripoli protests

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu chairs the weekly Cabinet meeting at his office in Jerusalem in this Nov. 3, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Israel PM appoints new defense minister, boosting Likud party
JERUSALEM — Israel's Premier Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Naftali Bennett would be appointed defense minister and their parties would unite, as the political system remained deadlocked after two inconclusive elections.Netanyahu, who has so far failed to form a coalition after a Sept. 17 poll, had in the past refused to give the security-oriented Bennett this coveted portfolio.But wary of his main challenger Benny Gantz attempting to collect the support of 61 lawmakers necessary to form a coalition and become prime minister himself, the incumbent has changed course.In doing so, he effectively locked in the three lawmakers of Bennett's New Right to his ruling Likud party.A statement by Likud said that Netanyahu had "offered to appoint (Bennett) as defense minister,...
November 08, 2019

Israel PM appoints new defense minister, boosting Likud party

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