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September 16, 2019
Lebanon tribunal charges Hariri suspect for three more attacks
THE HAGUE — A UN-backed court on Monday indicted a Hezbollah suspect accused of murdering ex-Lebanon premier Rafik Al-Hariri over three other attacks, in the first new case taken on by the tribunal since its creation in 2007.Salim Ayyash was charged by a pre-trial judge with terrorism and murder over the deadly attacks on politicians in 2004 and 2005, said the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.The 55-year-old is one of four ...
September 16, 2019
Iran seizes vessel in Gulf for allegedly smuggling diesel fuel
DUBAI — Iran's Revolutionary Guards have seized a vessel in the Gulf for allegedly smuggling 250,000 liters of diesel fuel to the United Arab Emirates, Iran's semi-official Students News agency ISNA reported on Monday."It was detained near Iran's Greater Tunb island in the Persian (Arabian) Gulf...the crew have been handed over to legal authorities in the southern Hormozgan province," ISNA said, without elaborating on the nationalities of the crewmen.The reported ...
September 16, 2019
Erdogan hosts Putin, Rohani for Syria summit
ANKARA — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan welcomed his Russian and Iranian counterparts on Monday for their latest summit on Syria, with attention focused on Damascus's push on the last rebel-held bastion of Idlib.Presidents Vladimir Putin and Hassan Rohani met Erdogan in the Turkish capital Ankara for their fifth summit on the conflict since 2017.Iran and Russia have been staunch supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad, while Turkey has called ...
September 16, 2019
Netanyahu, Gantz spur supporters on eve of tense Israeli polls
JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his main opponent Benny Gantz sought to galvanize supporters on Monday on the eve of a tense election with the political fate of the country's longest-serving premier in the balance.The vote on Tuesday will be Israel's second in five months after Netanyahu suffered one of the biggest defeats of his political career when he failed to form a coalition after April polls.Opinion ...
September 16, 2019
Outsider leads after divisive Tunisia presidential poll
TUNIS — Political outsider Kais Saied was leading Tunisia's election with just over a quarter of votes counted, the election commission said on Monday, in the country's second free presidential vote since the Arab Spring.Saied was on 19 percent, leading imprisoned media magnate Nabil Karoui, who was on 14.9 percent, and ahead of the candidate from the Ennahdha party Abdelfattah Mourou (13.1 percent).The announcement came after both Saied and Karoui's ...
September 16, 2019
Iran says 'no plans' for Trump-Rohani meet on UN sidelines
TEHRAN — Iran said on Monday there were no plans for President Hassan Rohani to meet his US counterpart Donald Trump at an upcoming UN gathering, as tensions mount over attacks on Saudi oil sites.European powers have been trying to de-escalate the tensions that have spiraled since Trump unilaterally withdrew the United States from a 2015 nuclear deal and reimposed crippling sanctions on Iran.The White House said on Sunday that ...
September 16, 2019
Tunisian establishment reels as outsiders claim election win
TUNIS - Two political outsiders appear to have stunned Tunisia's political establishment, claiming victory after Sunday's first round of a presidential election.With formal results yet to be announced, conservative law professor Kais Saied and detained media magnate Nabil Karoui cited exit polls late on Sunday to say they had advanced to a deciding run-off that will be held next month.If confirmed by official results later on Monday or on Tuesday, ...
September 16, 2019
Algeria poll on December 12: Interim president
ALGIERS - Algeria is to hold a presidential election on December 12, five months into a political vacuum since longtime leader Abdelaziz Bouteflika resigned in the face of mass protests, his interim successor announced Sunday."I have decided... that the date of the presidential election will be Thursday, December 12," said Abdelkader Bensalah, who is precluded from standing himself, in a televised address to the nation.The announcement comes after army chief ...
September 15, 2019
Kuwait says it's probing drone sighting, working with Riyadh
DUBAI — Kuwait is investigating the sighting of a drone over its territory and coordinating with Saudi Arabia and other countries after Saturday's attacks on Saudi oil plants, the Cabinet said on Sunday."The security leadership has started the necessary investigations over the sighting of a drone over the coastline of Kuwait City and what measures were taken to confront it," the Cabinet said on Twitter account.It said Prime Minister Sheikh ...
September 15, 2019
In first, Iraq signs deal to plug into Gulf power grid
BAGHDAD — Iraq on Sunday signed a landmark deal with the Gulf Cooperation Council for a transmission line that would import 500 magawatts of electricity to its overstretched grid by 2020.The 300-kilometer (200-mile) transmission line would run from Kuwait to Iraq's southern port of Faw and be financed by the GCC, according to the Electricity Ministry.It is the second deal the ministry signed in as many days to boost electricity ...
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