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November 13, 2018

Black Tunisians push for equality, in face of racism

By Kaouther LarbiDJERBA, Tunisia — Tunisian Nadia Borji says she wants to be considered as equal but fears she will end up buried in her town's so-called "slaves" cemetery — because she is black.Black Tunisians, including some descended from slaves, make up a minority that is barely visible in the north African country.Many hope for greater equality after a law was passed last month criminalizing all forms of racism."This term ...

November 13, 2018

Bid to reconcile rival Libya factions

* Rival leaders meet for first time since May* UN shelves plans for election next monthPALERMO, Italy — Libya's two main rival leaders met for the first time in more than five months and the prime minister backed a UN plan for an election next year, as Italy hosted a reconciliation conference a week after a vote was shelved for next month.Prime Minister Fayez Al-Serraj, whose weak but internationally recognized ...

November 13, 2018

Tunisia PM expects 9mn tourists in 2019

TUNIS — Tunisia expects tourist visits to reach 9 million for the first time next year, as the country’s tourism industry recovers following an attack at a beach resort in 2015, Prime Minister Youssef Chahed said late on Monday.About 6.2 million tourists visited Tunisia in the first nine month of this year, up 16.9 percent from the same period of last year, in a rebound from the impact of the ...

November 13, 2018

Shrinking Sea of Galilee: Some hope for a miracle

By Clothilde MraffkoEIN GEV, Israel — It was not so long ago when swimmers at Ein Gev would lay out their towels in the grass at the edge of the Sea of Galilee.Today, they put up their parasols 100 meters (yards) further down, on a sandy beach that has appeared due to the shrinking of the iconic body of water.“Every time we come we feel an ache in our hearts,” ...

November 13, 2018

Damascus amends law on post-war property claims

BEIRUT — Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has amended a disputed land law that alarmed refugees and the countries hosting them, giving owners more time to register land claims.Law 10, passed in April, gave the Damascus government the right to redevelop urban areas that were damaged by war or that were built without formal approval or property deeds, part of its efforts to move toward reconstruction.The law initially gave people only ...

November 13, 2018

Lebanon approves landmark law to find civil war missing

BEIRUT — Lebanon for the first time Monday passed a law to investigate the fate of thousands of people missing since its civil war and to hold those responsible to account.Rights groups say thousands of people disappeared during the 1975-1990 conflict, and have repeatedly called for a law to help bring answers to their families.“The evening parliamentary session passed Law 19 linked to the forcibly disappeared,” Lebanon’s state news agency ...

November 13, 2018

Tunisia parliament OKs new govt amid PM-president rift

TUNIS — Tunisian Prime Minister Youssef Chahed’s new government has won a vote of confidence in parliament at a time of tensions between the premier and the president in the birthplace of the Arab Spring.Lawmakers voted late Monday to approve the lineup, which President Beji Caid Essebsi has complained he was only informed of “at the last minute”.The reshuffle has brought in 13 new faces although the key portfolios of ...

November 13, 2018

9 militants in Jordan get jail terms for Karak attack

AMMAN — A court in Jordan on Tuesday sentenced nine militants to prison terms ranging from three years to life for a shooting rampage two years ago in an ancient castle in the southern city of Karak that killed 10 people, including a Canadian tourist.The court said the group of nine were involved in helping militants in attacks on the area surrounding an ancient crusader castle. The gunfights also left ...

November 13, 2018

Tehran gets third mayor in 18 months

TEHRAN — Tehran city council on Tuesday elected Pirouz Hanachi, a little-known technocrat, to the politically sensitive post of mayor that has in the past led to Iran's presidency, state television reported.Hanachi is the third mayor of Tehran to be elected by the city council since reformists swept to power in local polls in May 2017.The 54-year-old Hanachi was a deputy mayor after the reformists took office in August 2017, ...

November 13, 2018

'Lebanese Connection' drug trial opens in Paris

PARIS — Fifteen alleged members of a vast crime ring accused of laundering Colombian drug money through luxury jewelry and using shadowy middlemen from the Lebanese diaspora went on trial in Paris on Tuesday.The chief defendant is Mohamad Noureddine, a 44-year-old Lebanese businessman with interests in real estate and jewelry.He was arrested in France in January 2016 during police raids that also took place in Italy, Belgium and Germany, after ...

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