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October 18, 2018

Israel steps up armored deployment on Gaza border

YAD MORDECHAI, Israel — Israel ramped up its armored forces along the Gaza border on Thursday in a daylight show of force, a day after a Palestinian rocket destroyed a home in southern Israel.With the deployment clearly visible from main Israeli roads near the Gaza Strip, senior Egyptian security officials met leaders of the enclave’s ruling Hamas to try to calm tensions.Hamas and the smaller Islamic Jihad militant group quickly ...

October 18, 2018

UN envoy warns Gaza is imploding

NEW YORK — With its economy in a free-fall and tensions rising with Israel, the Hamas-ruled enclave of Gaza is imploding, the UN envoy for the Middle East warned Thursday.Nickolay Mladenov delivered the warning to the Security Council a day after Israeli warplanes struck the Gaza Strip in retaliation at rocket firings from the Palestinian territory.“Gaza is imploding. This is not hyperbole. This is not alarmism. It is a reality,” ...

October 18, 2018

Israeli Supreme Court overturns entry ban on US student

JERUSALEM — An American student who was barred entry into Israel under a law against foreign activists who support boycotts of the state over its policies toward the Palestinians was given permission to stay in the country by the Supreme Court on Thursday.In its ruling, the court criticized Israeli authorities for denying entry to Lara Alqasem, 22, saying their decision gave “the unavoidable impression” that she was barred for her ...

October 18, 2018

US places Palestinian mission under control of controversial Israel embassy

WASHINGTON — The United States downgraded its main diplomatic mission to the Palestinians on Thursday, placing it under the authority of the US embassy to Israel.US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the consulate general, a separate office which handled dealings with the Palestinians, would be replaced by a new Palestinian Affairs Unit inside the controversial new US embassy in Jerusalem.The move was quickly condemned by the Palestinians and it ...

October 18, 2018

Trump threatens to send military, shut border as Central Americans migrate

WASHINGTON/GUATEMALA CITY — US President Donald Trump threatened to deploy the military and close the southern US border on Thursday as more Hondurans and Salvadorans joined thousands of migrants in Guatemala headed north.“I must, in the strongest of terms, ask Mexico to stop this onslaught — and if unable to do so I will call up the US Military and CLOSE OUR SOUTHERN BORDER!” Trump wrote on Twitter.Several thousand Honduran ...

October 18, 2018

Peruvian judge frees opposition leader Fujimori from prison

LIMA — A Peruvian judge late on Wednesday freed conservative opposition leader Keiko Fujimori from jail where she spent the past week pending charges in a money laundering probe.Judge Cesar Sahuanay said there was no legal basis for jailing Fujimori and 19 others before trial in connection with alleged payments from Odebrecht, a Brazilian construction group at the center of the region’s biggest ever graft probe.Fujimori, the daughter of former ...

October 18, 2018

Sri Lanka boosts leader’s security over alleged death plot

COLOMBO — Security for Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena has been stepped up following the discovery of an alleged plot to assassinate him, two of his advisers said on Thursday.An Indian national, named by Indian and Sri Lankan media as M. Thomas from the southern state of Kerala, was arrested on suspicion of involvement in the plot on Sept. 22. Former Sri Lankan defense secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa was also a ...

October 18, 2018

Top Afghan official killed in shooting, US general unhurt

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Gen. Abdul Razeq, one of Afghanistan’s most powerful security officials, was killed on Thursday when a bodyguard opened fire following a meeting in the governor’s compound in the southern province of Kandahar, officials said.Gen. Scott Miller, the top US commander in Afghanistan who had been at the meeting with Razeq only moments earlier, was uninjured in the attack, but the local commander of the NDS intelligence service ...

October 18, 2018

“World’s largest book sale” comes to Middle East at giant hangar in Dubai

DUBAI — A gargantuan touring book sale that touts itself as the world’s largest is making its first stop in the Middle East, filling a huge hangar in Dubai with stacks of 3 million discounted books, open around the clock.The Big Bad Wolf Book Sale, launched in Kuala Lumpur in 2009, has since regularly toured Asian cities including Jakarta, Manila, Cebu, Colombo, Bangkok and Taipei. Organizers hope to attract as ...

October 18, 2018

Russia and Turkey give more time for Idlib deal in Syria: UN

GENEVA — Russia and Turkey plan to give more time for the implementation of their de-escalation deal in the Syrian province of Idlib, a “great relief” for 3 million civilians in the area, UN humanitarian adviser Jan Egeland told reporters on Thursday.But there were still “a million unanswered questions” about how the deal would work, and what would happen if groups designated as terrorists refused to lay down their weapons.Speaking ...

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