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January 26, 2020
Iraq protesters brave riot police pressure
BAGHDAD — Iraqi security forces shot live rounds to clear protests in Baghdad and the south for a second day on Sunday, but thousands of determined students flooded the streets to keep up their movement.Violence has resurged in the capital and Shiite-majority south this week, with more than 15 people killed as anti-government activists ramped up their road closures and sit-ins while security forces sought to snuff out the campaign.On ...
January 26, 2020
Palestinians may quit Oslo deal over Trump peace plan
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — Palestinian officials threatened Sunday to withdraw from key provisions of the Oslo Accords, which define relations with Israel, if US President Donald Trump announces his Middle East peace plan next week.Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told AFP that the Palestine Liberation Organization reserved the right "to withdraw from the interim agreement" if Trump unveils his plan.The Trump initiative will turn Israel's "temporary occupation (of Palestinian territory) ...
January 26, 2020
Women grab limelight at India's Republic Day pageantry
NEW DELHI — Huge crowds gathered for India's Republic Day parade on Sunday, with women taking center-stage at the annual pomp-filled spectacle of military might featuring army tanks, horses and camels.For the first time, the riders performing daredevil stunts on motorbikes to the delight of the crowds lining New Delhi's central Rajpath boulevard, were women.Inspector Seema Nag saluted the gathered VIPs as she led her fellow bikers — one precariously ...
January 26, 2020
Turkey building homes for Syrians fleeing Idlib
ANKARA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that work was underway to construct homes inside Syria for people fleeing the war-torn country's last rebel-held stronghold."In an area 30-40 km deep in Syria close to our border, we have planned to build, not a tent city, but homes, and the construction has begun," Erdogan said."We want our Idlib brothers and sisters to take shelter in winter here," he told ...
January 26, 2020
Hopes fade for those trapped in Turkey quake; toll climbs to 35
ELAZIG, Turkey — Hopes faded Sunday of finding more survivors from a powerful earthquake in eastern Turkey as more bodies were pulled from the rubble and the death toll climbed to 35.Nearly 4,000 rescue workers combed through debris in freezing temperatures, helped by mechanical diggers, in vain hopes of finding anyone alive in the city of Elazig.Three bodies were found in the city centre, 38 hours after the 6.8-magnitude quake ...
January 26, 2020
Assad forces on the edge of key opposition-held town: Monitor
BEIRUT — Syrian regime forces are knocking on the outskirts of a key city on the edge of the country’s last opposition-held stronghold, a monitor and a pro-government newspaper said Sunday.The mainly deserted city of Maaret Al-Numan is a strategic prize lying on the M5 linking Damascus to Syria’s second city Aleppo, a main highway coveted by the regime as it seeks to regain control of the entire country.It is ...
January 26, 2020
Security forces fire water cannons on Lebanon protesters
BEIRUT — Water cannons and tear gas were fired at anti-government protesters trying to breach a security barricade outside government headquarters in central Beirut.Some protesters among the hundreds who had gathered here on Saturday evening for a planned march managed to open a metal gate blocking their way but were pushed back. After Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces used Twitter to warn peaceful demonstrators to leave for their own safety, riot ...
January 26, 2020
Trump says ‘no thanks’ to Iran's FM offer
By Joanne SerriehABU DHABI — US President Donald Trump on Sunday rejected a negotiation proposal by Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif on the condition that sanctions be lifted.“Iranian Foreign Minister says Iran wants to negotiate with The United States, but wants sanctions removed,” Trump said in a tweet. “No Thanks!”He retweeted his tweet with a Farsi translation as well.Zarif on Saturday told Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine that Iran is ...
January 26, 2020
Moroccan cleaner gets 15 years for stealing King’s watches
RABAT — A court here has awarded a 15-year jail term to a cleaner for the theft of dozens of luxury watches belonging to King Mohammed VI, her lawyer said.The 46-year-old woman worked in the royal household and the judgement was handed down overnight Friday to Saturday at a court in the Moroccan capital, Rabat.She was accused of having stolen 36 luxury watches.The woman initially had watches melted down and ...
January 26, 2020
Key vote in Italy as Salvini seeks to topple government
ROME — Italians are voting on Sunday in a key regional election which the far-right hopes will shake the country's fragile coalition government to its core and return strongman Matteo Salvini to power.The wealthy center-north region of Emilia Romagna has been a stronghold of the Italian left for over 70 years, but while left-wing values still hold sway in its cities, the right has been rallying serious support in towns ...
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