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January 17, 2019

Dutch journalist deported from Turkey over alleged terror links

ISTANBUL — A Dutch journalist based in Turkey was deported on Thursday a day after she was arrested on suspicion of links to a militant group in Syria, Turkish officials said.The officials insisted Ans Boersma’s deportation was not related to her journalistic activity but that Ankara had received a tip-off from the Dutch police that she had links to Jabhat Al-Nusra, a former Al-Qaeda affiliate in Syria.Boersma, a freelance journalist ...

January 17, 2019

Iran “shooting itself in the foot” with spying, German diplomat warns

BERLIN — Iran is harming Europe’s efforts to preserve the 2015 Iran nuclear accord with actions such as the case of suspected espionage involving a member of the German military, veteran German diplomat Wolfgang Ischinger said on Thursday.Germany expressed grave concern this week to a senior Iranian diplomat about the case of an Afghan-German man who was arrested on Tuesday for suspected espionage.“The foreign ministry addressed the case unmistakeably with ...

January 17, 2019

Egypt reopens five ports after weather improves

SUEZ/ALEXANDRIA — Egypt reopened five ports on Thursday that it had shut due to bad weather as conditions improved and winds stabilized, the Red Sea Ports Authority said.Several Egyptian port cities and the capital Cairo were hit by a severe sandstorm on Wednesday, which prompted the closure of several ports.The ports of Alexandria and Dekheila on the Mediterranean in the Alexandria governorate, which had been shut since Sunday, reopened at ...

January 17, 2019

Tunisia’s largest union starts nationwide strike over pay

TUNIS — Rail, bus and air traffic stopped in Tunisia on Thursday after the powerful UGTT union staged a one-day nationwide strike to protest against the government’s refusal to raise the salaries of 670,000 public servants.Tunisia is under pressure from the International Monetary Fund to freeze public sector wages as part of reforms to help reduce its budget deficit.The one-day strike hit airports, ports, schools, hospitals, state media and government ...

January 17, 2019

US sees Palestinian state on most of W. Bank, some of E. Jerusalem: Israeli TV

JERUSALEM — Israeli television said on Wednesday that US President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan would propose a Palestinian state on as much as 90 percent of the occupied West Bank, with a capital in East Jerusalem — but not including its holy sites.The White House, which has kept details of the plan under wraps and said its release could still be months away, dismissed the report by Israel’s ...

January 16, 2019

‘Not your habibti’: Designer seeks to empower women

By Clothilde MraffkoIT’S only three words on a T-shirt or embroidered on a denim jacket in Palestinian designer Yasmeen Mjalli’s collection, but they carry a powerful message: “Not your habibti”, or darling.She sees the clothes as helping empower Palestinian women facing unwelcome male attention in public.“When a woman is exposed to so much harassment on the street, she begins to dress to protect herself, to hide herself as opposed to ...

January 16, 2019

Princess Fawzia: How her marriage to Iran’s Pahlavi ended in a divorce

IRAN was the first country to formally recognize Egypt after its independence from Britain. It opened an embassy in Cairo to improve relations between the two countries.In 1928, Iran and Egypt signed a trade agreement and the Iranian Chamber of Commerce was established in Cairo.It was during this time that the Iranian ambassador in Cairo arranged a meeting between King Farouk’s sister, Princess Fawzia, and Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, crown prince ...

January 15, 2019

Palestinians strike in West Bank against new social security law

RAMALLAH — Thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank joined a strike on Tuesday against their government’s proposed new social security law, fearing the fund will be mismanaged.The strike, which saw much of Ramallah, Hebron and other Palestinian cities closed, comes hours before president Mahmoud Abbas is due to address the United Nations.A few thousand people protested outside the Social Security Corporation in Ramallah, where Abbas’s government is based.Under ...

January 15, 2019

A handout picture released by the Jordanian Royal Palace on Tuesday shows Jordan’s King Abdullah II and his wife Queen Rania planting tree saplings on the occasion of Arbour Day at Al-Kamaliya forest in Amman. — AFP

January 15, 2019

Al-Qaeda’s shadow still hangs over Idlib

By Michel MoutotPARIS – The militant group now controlling Idlib province in northwest Syria claims to have broken with Al-Qaeda, but analysts say that despite several rebrandings there’s no sign it has changed its stripes.Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) sealed its hold on Idlib last week after signing a ceasefire with what was left of rival factions in the region.Over time, HTS has changed both names and leaders, and statements posted ...

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