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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

A file photo of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Qatar's Emir Tamim Bin Hamad meeting in Ankara.
Turkey news outlet takes aim at Qatar's Al Jazeera English
Saudi Gazette reportJEDDAH — In an interesting opinion piece on the Turkey-Qatar relations, a pro-government Turkish daily Al-Sabah published in Turkey, has an interesting take on an emerging threat to the Turkey-Qatar alliance.It unerringly points to Al Jazeera English as the veritable spoiler and a possible chink in the growing Turkey-Qatar strategic partnership.It starts off the opinion article with the fact that Turkey and Qatar are strategic partners, and since 2015, the two countries have taken their political, economic and military relations to the next level, citing examples of how Turkey and Qatar have repeatedly come to each others’ assistance.Today, that seemingly unshakable alliance is now under threat — from within, it wrote, stating, Al Jazeera English, Qatar's...
November 04, 2019

Turkey news outlet takes aim at Qatar's Al Jazeera English

Sudanese protesters chant slogans during a demonstration by supporters and relatives of detained former regime officials to demand their release, in front of the government headquarters in the capital Khartoum, in this Oct. 30, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Sudan protest group has 'no objection' to handing Bashir to ICC
KHARTOUM — The protest movement that led to the ouster of Sudan's longtime president Omar Bashir said on Sunday it was not against handing over the deposed autocrat to the International Criminal Court to be tried for genocide.Bashir, who was ousted by the army in April after a nationwide agitation against his rule, has long been accused by the Hague-based ICC of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity for his alleged role in the devastating conflict in Sudan's Darfur region."We have no objection in handing over Bashir to the ICC," Ibrahim Al-Sheikh, a leader of umbrella protest movement the Forces of Freedom and Change, told reporters late on Sunday."All the members of the Forces of Freedom and Change agree on that."Global rights groups, rebel...
November 04, 2019

Sudan protest group has 'no objection' to handing Bashir to ICC

Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu speaks during a news conference for foreign media correspondents in Istanbul, Turkey, in this Aug. 21, 2019 file photo. — Reuters
Turkey to return militants stripped of citizenship
ANKARA — Turkey will send captured Daesh (the so-called IS) members back to their countries even if their citizenship has been revoked, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Monday, criticizing the approach of European countries on the issue.Turkey launched an offensive into northeastern Syria against the Kurdish YPG militia last month following a decision by US President Donald Trump to withdraw troops from the region. The move prompted widespread concern over the fate of Daesh prisoners in the region.The YPG is the main element of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which has been a leading US ally in beating back Daesh in the region, and has kept thousands of militants in jails across northeastern Syria. The United States and Turkey's Western allies have said Ankara's...
November 04, 2019

Turkey to return militants stripped of citizenship

A new S-400
Turkey says delivery of second Russian S-400 batch may be delayed
ANKARA — Delivery of a second batch of Russian S-400 missile defense systems to Turkey may be delayed beyond a planned 2020 timeline by talks on technology sharing and joint production, the head of Turkey's Defense Industry Directorate said on Monday.NATO allies Turkey and the United States have been at loggerheads over the purchase of the S-400 system, which Washington says is not compatible with NATO defenses and poses a threat to its Lockheed Martin F-35 fighter jets.Despite Washington's warnings and threats of US sanctions, Turkey started taking delivery of the first S-400 batch in July. In response, Washington has removed Turkey from the F-35 program, in which Ankara was a manufacturer and buyer.Washington still hopes to persuade its ally to "walk away" from the...
November 04, 2019

Turkey says delivery of second Russian S-400 batch may be delayed

Iraqi women chant slogans and wave national flags as they take part in a protest in the capital Baghdad's Tahrir square during ongoing anti-government protests on Monday. — AFP
5 dead as Iraqi security forces open fire on Baghdad protesters
BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces killed at least five people when they opened fire on protesters in Baghdad on Monday, a witness said, as thousands took part in the largest wave of anti-government protests for decades.A Reuters cameraman saw one man shot dead, his body carried away by fellow protesters, when security forces opened fire with live rounds on demonstrators near Baghdad's Ahrar Bridge. He also saw at least four others killed.Security and medical sources put the toll at four killed and 34 wounded, but could only confirm one death was from live fire. Two were a result of rubber bullets and tear gas, not live ammunition, they said, giving no reason for the fourth death.The sources also said two people were killed, including a police officer, when special forces tasked with...
November 04, 2019

5 dead as Iraqi security forces open fire on Baghdad protesters

Iraqi demonstrators gather near Al-Jumhuriya bridge. which leads to the high-security Green Zone, during ongoing anti-government protests in the capital Baghdad on Monday. — AFP
Iraqis arrested for backing protests on Facebook: HRW
BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces in a western province unaffected by anti-government protests are detaining people for posting messages of solidarity with the rallies, Human Rights Watch said on Monday.At least two people have been arrested and a third interrogated in Anbar province, a Sunni-majority desert region in the country's west, after Facebook posts.Protests demanding an overhaul of the political system have rocked Baghdad and southern Iraq, both mainly Shiite, but have not reached the west or Kurdish-majority north.Residents of western Iraq have said and HRW they were remaining quiet of out of fear of being accused of being "terrorists" or backers of ex-dictator Saddam Hussein.But security forces there appear to be monitoring social media accounts, HRW said on...
November 04, 2019

Iraqis arrested for backing protests on Facebook: HRW

Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi gestures during a joint news conference with German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer in Amman in this Aug. 19, 2019 file photo. — Reuters
Jordan says 2 citizens held in Israel to return 'before end of week'
AMMAN — Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Monday two of its citizens detained by Israel after crossing into the occupied West Bank would return to Jordan "before the end of the week".Jordan recalled its ambassador on Tuesday over the refusal of the Israeli government to release Hiba Labadi and Abdul Rahman Miri, who Jordan said had been illegally arrested without charge a few months ago.Safadi gave no further details about how their release had been secured in his comments on Twitter. Israel declined to comment."The government pursued the case from the start under direct instructions from His Majesty King Abdullah to take all necessary steps to release them whatever that may cost," Safadi said.Labadi, 24, was arrested in August after crossing to the...
November 04, 2019

Jordan says 2 citizens held in Israel to return 'before end of week'

 Iranian President Hassan Rohani, center, is seen during a ceremony to mark National Nuclear Technology Day in Tehran in this April 9, 2018 file photo. — AFP
EU warns as Iran announces sharp rise in enriched uranium production
TEHRAN/BRUSSELS — Iran announced Monday a more than tenfold increase in enriched uranium production following a series of steps back from commitments under a 2015 nuclear deal abandoned by the United States.The Islamic republic has also developed two new advanced centrifuges, one of which is undergoing testing, Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organisation of Iran, announced.Enriched uranium production has reached five kilograms per day, Salehi told reporters at the Natanz facility in central Iran in remarks broadcast by state television.That compares with the level of 450 grams two months ago.Tehran decided in May to suspend certain nuclear commitments, a year after US President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal between world powers and Iran and reimposed sanctions on...
November 04, 2019

EU warns as Iran announces sharp rise in enriched uranium production

US President Donald Trump shakes hands during a bilateral meeting with Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan during the G20 leaders summit in Osaka, Japan, in this June 29, 2019 file photo. — Reuters
Erdogan may call off US trip after Congress votes: Officials
ANKARA — President Tayyip Erdogan may call off a visit to Washington next week in protest at votes in the House of Representatives to recognize mass killings of Armenians a century ago as genocide and to seek sanctions on Turkey, three Turkish officials said.Erdogan is due in Washington on Nov. 13 at President Donald Trump's invitation, but said last week that the votes put a "question mark" over the plans."These steps seriously overshadow ties between the two countries. Due to these decisions, Erdogan's visit has been put on hold," a senior Turkish official said, adding that a final decision had not been taken.Turkish sources say Trump and Erdogan have a strong bond despite anger in Congress over Turkey's Syria offensive and its purchase of Russian air...
November 04, 2019

Erdogan may call off US trip after Congress votes: Officials

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