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A handout picture released by Iran's Atomic Energy Organization on Wednesday shows the entrance of the nuclear power plant of Natanz, some 300 km south of capital Tehran. — AFP
EU voices 'deep concern' over Iran nuclear inspector incident
VIENNA — The EU said on Thursday it was "deeply concerned" by an incident involving an inspector with the UN's nuclear watchdog last week in Iran which led to her having her accreditation cancelled.In a statement delivered to a special meeting of the governing body of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an EU representative said: "The EU is... deeply concerned by the incident concerning one IAEA inspector"."We understand that the incident was resolved and call upon Iran to ensure that no such incidents occur in the future," the statement said.Reiterating the EU's "full confidence in the inspectorate's professionalism and impartiality", the statement called "upon Iran to ensure that IAEA inspectors can perform their...
November 07, 2019

EU voices 'deep concern' over Iran nuclear inspector incident

A Lebanese student takes part in an anti-government demonstration in front of the Ministry of Education in the capital Beirut on Thursday. — AFP
Students take to Lebanon streets as protests grow
BEIRUT — Thousands of students took to the streets across Lebanon Thursday to demand a better future as anti-government protests now entering their fourth week continued to spread.Pupils carrying their schoolbags picked up the baton from thousands of women who ignited the main protest site in Beirut on Wednesday evening by banging pots and pans to demand their rights.In Tripoli, where mobilization has been relentless since the protests erupted on Oct. 17, demonstrators planned to take down the giant portraits of politicians plastered all over the city's buildings.Grievances initially focused on poor infrastructure and abysmal public services quickly grew into an unprecedented nationwide push to drive out an elite protesters say has ruled the country like a cartel for...
November 07, 2019

Students take to Lebanon streets as protests grow

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres attends the 10th ASEAN-UN Summit in Bangkok on the sidelines of the 35th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit in this Nov. 3, 2019 file photo. — AFP
UN chief condemns live fire at Iraqi protesters as 'disturbing'
BAGHDAD —The United Nations chief Antonio Guterres denounced as "disturbing" reports that Iraqi security forces have fired live ammunition at anti-government protesters in Baghdad, as mass rallies continued to rock the capital and southern Iraq.The demonstrations broke out on Oct. 1 in anger over corruption and unemployment but have morphed into demands that the entire ruling system be upended.The violence has left nearly 280 dead, with security forces resuming their use of live rounds on Monday after nearly two weeks of using volleys of tear gas, but no firearms, to push back protesters.Secretary General Antonio Guterres expressed his "serious concern over the rising number of deaths and injuries during the ongoing demonstrations in Iraq"."Reports of the...
November 07, 2019

UN chief condemns live fire at Iraqi protesters as 'disturbing'

This handout undated picture released by the press service of the Turkish Government shows Asma Fawzi Muhammad Al-Qubaysi, believed to be the first wife of slain Daesh (the so-called IS) leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, captured in the Turkish border city of Hatay by Turkish security officials. — AFP
Baghdadi's wife revealed Daesh group secrets after capture
ISTANBUL — The wife of slain Daesh leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi revealed "a lot of information" about the militant group's "inner workings" after she was captured last year, a Turkish official said.The official said that Baghdadi's spouse identified herself as Rania Mahmoud but was in fact Asma Fawzi Muhammad Al-Qubaysi.She was said to be the "first wife" of the Daesh leader, who was killed in a US special forces raid in Syria last month.The woman was arrested on June 2, 2018 in the province of Hatay, near the Syrian border, along with 10 others, including Baghdadi's daughter, who identified herself as Leila Jabeer.The official said the family links were confirmed using a DNA sample of Baghdadi provided by Iraqi authorities."We discovered...
November 07, 2019

Baghdadi's wife revealed Daesh group secrets after capture

A handout picture released by Iran's Atomic Energy Organization on Wednesday shows the interior of the Fordo (Fordow) Uranium Conversion Facility in Qom, in the north of the country. — AFP
Iran resumes uranium enrichment in new step away from nuclear deal
TEHRAN — Iran resumed uranium enrichment at its underground Fordow plant south of Tehran on Thursday in a new step back from its commitments under a landmark 2015 nuclear deal.Engineers began feeding uranium hexafluoride gas into the plant's mothballed enrichment centrifuges in "the first minutes of Thursday", the Iranian Atomic Energy Organisation said.The suspension of uranium enrichment at the long secret plant was one of the restrictions Iran had agreed to on its nuclear program in return for the lifting of UN sanctions.Iran's announcement that it would resume enrichment at the Fordow plant from midnight (2030 GMT Wednesday) had drawn a chorus of concern from the remaining parties to the troubled agreement.Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia have been trying...
November 07, 2019

Iran resumes uranium enrichment in new step away from nuclear deal

Lebanese students take part in an anti-government demonstration in the eastern Bekaa Valley city of Baalbeck on Thursday. — AFP
Students swell Lebanon protest movement
BEIRUT — Thousands of students took to the streets across Lebanon on Thursday to demand a better future as an unprecedented anti-government protest movement entered its fourth week and continued to spread.Waving Lebanese flags, students and high school pupils massed in front of the education ministry in Beirut to voice their grievances against a political class seen as corrupt and incompetent."I challenge any politician or official to send their children to state schools," one pupil told a local television channel."The economy is in trouble, there is no work, how will we survive in the future?."Groups of students gathered elsewhere in Beirut and in other cities, the latest boost to a mobilization that has been relentless since the protests erupted on Oct. 17.Students...
November 07, 2019

Students swell Lebanon protest movement

A truck drives through the gate of the southern Iraqi port of Umm Qasr after it reopened on Thursday. — AFP
Iraq crude oil stuck at field for third day as protests cut roads
KIRKUK, Iraq — About 90,000 barrels of crude oil meant for export were trapped at a northern Iraq field on Thursday because transport routes were cut by protests, an industry source said.Anti-government demonstrations have rocked Iraq's capital and its south, with sit-ins increasingly targeting main roads and state infrastructure — including oil fields — in OPEC's second-biggest producer.The Qayyarah field in northern Iraq produces 30,000 barrels per day of crude oil that is trucked to the southern port of Basra to be exported, but sit-ins have sealed off some of those roads.A senior source at the North Oil Company, which manages the Qayyarah field, said on Thursday that trucks were unable to carry out that journey for a third consecutive day."These trucks usually...
November 07, 2019

Iraq crude oil stuck at field for third day as protests cut roads

A member, right, of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) stands on guard past US military armored vehicles and soldiers on patrol near an oil well in Rumaylan (Rmeilan) in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on Wednesday. — AFP
Kurdish forces kill 11 pro-Turkish Syrian fighters: Erdogan
ISTANBUL — Eleven pro-Turkish Syrian fighters were killed Thursday by Kurdish forces in violation of ceasefire agreements aimed at creating a "safe zone" in northern Syria, Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said."This morning, 11 members of the Syrian National Army were martyred," Erdogan told a press conference in Ankara, using the name for a Syrian militia fighting for Turkey."Of course, a bigger number died on the other side... When they attack the SNA or our soldiers, should we stay silent? Of course, we have to retaliate — more than retaliate," he added.Erdogan did not say where the fighting had taken place, but the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a monitor, said clashes had taken place near the Syrian border town of Ain Issa, without...
November 07, 2019

Kurdish forces kill 11 pro-Turkish Syrian fighters: Erdogan

US President Donald Trump speaks to the press before departing the White House in Washington in this Oct. 25, 2019 file photo. Trump on Wednesday said he had hosted successful talks in the White House with representatives of Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on a controversial dam being built on the Nile. — AFP
Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan set January goal on controversial Nile dam
WASHINGTON — Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan on Wednesday set a Jan. 15 target for resolving an intensifying feud over a massive dam being constructed on Africa's Nile River, which has raised fears of conflict over scarce water.US President Donald Trump agreed to mediate among the three nations in Washington at the request of Egypt, which fears that the Ethiopian-built dam would disrupt the river that provides 90 percent of its drinking water.After a day of talks mediated by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and World Bank President David Malpass, foreign ministers from the three countries said they would hold four technical meetings on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.The ministers "agreed to work toward completion of an agreement by Jan. 15, 2020," a joint statement...
November 07, 2019

Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan set January goal on controversial Nile dam

Algerian protesters hold a giant national flag in the center of the capital Algiers as anti-government demonstrations continue on Tuesday. — AFP
Algeria judges end strike over reshuffle
ALGIERS — Striking Algerian judges returned to work Wednesday, a day after their main union announced an end to a mass 10-day walkout over alleged executive interference in the judiciary.Hearings resumed in Sidi M'hamed court, the main jurisdiction in Algiers, a journalist said, while in second city Oran, some 350 km (220 miles) west of the capital, lawyer Wafa Boukadoum said judges were also back at work.Algerian judges and prosecutors had begun an open-ended strike on Oct. 27, demanding independence for the judiciary after a massive reshuffle affecting 3,000 judges and prosecutors.At the time, the National Magistrates' Syndicate (SNM) decried the transfers by the justice ministry as "a stranglehold by the executive over the power of the judiciary".But the SNM said an...
November 06, 2019

Algeria judges end strike over reshuffle

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