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Lebanese school students take part in a protest in the southern city of Sidon (Saida) on Tuesday during ongoing anti-government protests. — AFP
Electricity, water cuts power Lebanon's protest movement
BEIRUT — For 32-year-old Uhood from Beirut's Tariq Al-Jdideh district, corruption in Lebanon's leadership is the reason she has to shower at a friend's house when water pipes run dry at home.It's also why she has to pay what she calls a "mafia" of private electricity providers to cover for poor state supplies."Access to water and electricity are the most basic of rights, but ever since childhood we've become used to frequent cuts," she said."We are sick of the lies and of the corruption. We don't trust political leaders anymore," Uhood yelled, as riot police streamed into a Beirut thoroughfare to contain violence as rioters attacked demonstrators.An unprecedented protest movement has gripped Lebanon since Oct. 17, demanding an...
November 05, 2019

Electricity, water cuts power Lebanon's protest movement

In this file handout photo released by Iran's Atomic Energy Organization on Monday shows the atomic enrichment facilities Nataz nuclear power plant, some 300 km south of capital Tehran. — AFP
Iran uranium enrichment plan alarms, EU Russia
BRUSSELS/MOSCOW — The European Union voiced concern Tuesday at Iran's announcement that it would resume uranium enrichment at an underground plant, warning it is getting harder to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal.An EU spokeswoman said it was becoming "increasingly difficult" to save the accord, which was abandoned by the US in May last year and which Iran has undercut with a series of recent moves to step up its nuclear activities.Meanwhile, Russia also expressed concern on Tuesday about Iran's decision to resume uranium enrichment at an underground plant south of Tehran."We are monitoring the development of the situation with concern," President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters."The dismantling of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of...
November 05, 2019

Iran uranium enrichment plan alarms, EU Russia

Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi
Turkey says it captured sister of dead Daesh leader
ISTANBUL — Turkish forces in northern Syria have detained a sister of Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, the leader of Daesh (the so-called IS) who was killed in a US raid, a senior Turkish official said on Tuesday."Turkey has captured Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's sister" in a raid near the town of Azaz, the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said.He named the woman as Rasmiya Awad, and said she was born in 1954.The woman was accompanied by her husband, her daughter-in-law and five children."The three adults are being interrogated at this time", the official said.He added that the arrest could be "an intelligence gold mine."What she knows about ISIS (Daesh) can significantly expand our understanding of the group", help us catch more members and "help...
November 05, 2019

Turkey says it captured sister of dead Daesh leader

A handout picture provided by the Iranian presidency on Tuesday President Hassan Rohani speaking during the opening of a factory in the capital Tehran. — AFP
Iran says to resume enrichment at underground plant
TEHRAN — President Hassan Rohani said on Tuesday that Iran would resume uranium enrichment at an underground plant south of Tehran in its latest step back from a troubled 2015 agreement with major powers.The suspension of all enrichment at the Fordow plant in the mountains near the Shiite holy city of Qom was one of the restrictions on its nuclear activities that Iran accepted in return for the lifting of international sanctions.But Washington's abandonment of the deal in May last year followed by its re-imposition of crippling sanctions prompted Iran to begin a phased suspension of its own commitments in May this year.Rouhani recalled that under the terms of the agreement Iran had retained more than 1,000 centrifuges at the plant which had been running empty since it went into...
November 05, 2019

Iran says to resume enrichment at underground plant

A convoy of US armored vehicles patrols the village of Ein Diwar in Syria's northeastern Hasakeh province on Monday. — AFP
Turkey, Russia carry out new joint patrol in Syria
ISTANBUL — Turkish and Russian troops in armored vehicles on Tuesday began their second joint ground patrol in northern Syria near the town of Kobani, under a deal that has forced a Kurdish militia away from Turkey's border.Nearly a month ago, Turkey and Syrian rebel allies launched a cross-border incursion against Kurdish YPG fighters, seizing control of 120 km (75 miles) of land along the frontier.Under a subsequent deal, Russia and Turkey agreed to push the YPG militia to a depth of at least 30 km (19 miles) south of the border and to hold joint patrols to monitor the agreement.President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that the YPG had not withdrawn from that planned "safe zone", despite Turkey's agreements with both Russia and the United States.Tuesday's patrol...
November 05, 2019

Turkey, Russia carry out new joint patrol in Syria

Omar Shakir, Human Rights Watch Israel and Palestine Director, looks up before his hearing at Israel's Supreme Court in Jerusalem in this Sept. 24, 2019 file photo. — Reuters
Israel's top court clears way for deportation of HRW official
JERUSALEM — Israel's Supreme Court upheld a government decision to deport a Human Rights Watch (HRW) official accused of backing an international pro-Palestinian boycott campaign, an edict he said was aimed at stifling criticism of Israel.The court ratified an Interior Ministry refusal to renew the work visa of Omar Shakir, a US citizen representing New York-based HRW in Israel and the Palestinian territories, and ordered him to leave within 20 days.Israel says he supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement which it has criminalized.It has lobbied Western powers to follow suit, and Shakir's case was a test for its anti-boycott legislation.Shakir contested the argument that his past pro-Palestinian statements, before being appointed to the HRW post in 2016,...
November 05, 2019

Israel's top court clears way for deportation of HRW official

Mourners carry the casket of an Iraqi protester, who was killed the day before in the capital, during his funeral in the central Iraqi city of Najaf, on Tuesday. — AFP
Mounting toll in Iraq protests as internet cut again
BAGHDAD — A mounting death toll in Baghdad and across southern Iraq coupled with reimposed internet restrictions sparked concerns on Tuesday that anti-government protests would once again trigger chaos.A first wave of protests that erupted on October 1 met with brutal violence, with at least 157 people killed over six days, most of them protesters in Baghdad, according to an official investigation.Many were shot dead from rooftops by "unidentified snipers", the probe found.Protests restarted after a two-week lull, with fewer deaths and an easing by the government of internet restrictions on social media sites.But late Sunday and early Monday, the bloodshed resumed, with four protesters killed near the Iranian consulate in Karbala.On Monday evening, security forces fired live...
November 05, 2019

Mounting toll in Iraq protests as internet cut again

An Iraqi demonstrator wearing a Guy Fawkes mask takes part in one of the ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad on Monday. -Reuters
At least three people killed as security forces use live rounds on Iraqi protesters
BAGHDAD - Security forces killed at least two people when they opened fire on protesters in southern Iraq late on Monday night, police and medical sources said, as thousands continued to take part in the largest wave of anti-government protests for decades.Security forces killed two people and wounded 12 in Shatra, 45 km north of the southern city of Nasiriya, security and medical sources said. Hospital sources said the protesters died from bullet wounds to the head.The protesters had tried to attack the house of a senior government official, security sources said.Separately, at least one protester was killed and 34 others wounded when security forces opened fire on protesters camped out at the entrance to the main Gulf port of Umm Qasr.The sit-in has halted operations at the port near the...
November 05, 2019

At least three people killed as security forces use live rounds on Iraqi protesters

Jordan's Prime Minister Omar Al-Razzaz speaks to the media during a news conference in Amman in this April 9, 2019 file photo. — Reuters
Jordan government resigns ahead of a reshuffle
AMMAN — Jordan's Cabinet on Monday resigned ahead of a government reshuffle expected in the next few days, the state news agency said.Officials say the reshuffle will solidify Prime Minister Omar Al-Razzaz’s mandate to accelerate economic reforms, seen as crucial to spur growth in the debt-ridden country.Razzaz was quoted by Petra state news agency as saying the move was needed "to face up to the challenges of the coming period".It was not clear how extensive the reshuffle would be but an official said it would not affect key portfolios, but focus on merging some ministries to cut waste and curb expenditure.Under an IMF austerity plan, Jordan must rein in spending to cut spiraling debt that stands at around $40 billion, equivalent to around 95 percent of gross domestic...
November 04, 2019

Jordan government resigns ahead of a reshuffle

Police and emergency services are at work ti take care of 41 migrants who were found alive in a refrigerated truck near Xanthi, northern Greece, on Monday. — AFP
Police find 41 migrants alive in truck in northern Greece
ATHENS — Greek police found 41 migrants, mostly Afghans, hiding in a refrigerated truck at a motorway in northern Greece on Monday, officials said.The discovery came 10 days after 39 bodies, all believed to be Vietnamese migrants, were discovered in the back of a refrigerated truck near London. Two people have been charged in Britain and eight in Vietnam over the deaths.The refrigeration system in the truck where the migrants were found in northern Greece had not been turned on, and none of the migrants was injured, though some asked for medical assistance, a Greek police official said.Police had stopped the truck near the city of Xanthi for a routine check, arresting the driver and taking him and the migrants to a nearby police station for identification.Greece is currently struggling...
November 04, 2019

Police find 41 migrants alive in truck in northern Greece

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