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BEIRUT: A Lebanese flag flutters in the protest-hit Iraqi capital. More than 900 kilometers (500 miles) away, a revolutionary Iraqi chant rings out from a bustling protest square in Beirut.“Don’t trust the rumors, they’re a group of thieves,” sings a group of Lebanese musicians in Iraqi dialect, referring to political leaders they deem incompetent and […]
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BEIRUT: Lebanese central bank governor Riad Salameh said on Monday bank deposits are secure and it had the capabilities to preserve the stability of the exchange rate of the pegged Lebanese pound. In a televised news conference, Salameh said the central bank had taken measures to safeguard deposits. Capital controls were not on the table […]
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Three killed in southern Iraq protests as Amnesty calls for urgent end to ‘bloodbath’ BAGHDAD: Iraqi anti-government protesters clashed with security forces on Sunday, leaving three dead and dozens wounded as a rights group warned a deadly crackdown could spiral into a “bloodbath.”Mass rallies calling for an overhaul of the ruling system have rocked the […]
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WASHINGTON: US troop levels in northern Syria will probably stabilize around 500, a top American military leader said Sunday, weeks after President Donald Trump had announced a complete withdrawal.“There will be less than 1,000, for sure,” General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on ABC’s “This Week.” “Probably in the 500ish […]
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Author: AP article author: AP ID: 1573385663287775200 Sun, 2019-11-10 11:29 AMMAN, Jordan: Jordan’s king on Sunday announced “full sovereignty” over two pieces of land leased by Israel, ending a 25-year arrangement spelled out in the countries’ landmark peace agreement. King Abdullah II said in a speech to the government’s new Cabinet on Sunday that Jordan […]
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DUBAI: With more than 1 million followers on Facebook, Ayat Oraby blurs the lines between reporting and hate speech. She blatantly expresses her opinions in her articles and videos, which range from anti-Christian rhetoric to support for a religious scholar believed to be the inspiration behind some terrorist groups to allegations against individual politicians for supporting […]
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article author: Reuters Sat, 2019-11-09 20:51 TEHRAN: Iran has the capacity to enrich uranium up to 60 percent, a spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said on Saturday, far more than is required for most civilian uses but short of the 90 percent needed to make nuclear bomb fuel. “The organization has the possibility […]
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BEIRUT: The smells of grilled cheese and cooked corn waft over the protesters in the Lebanese capital — with daily crowds filling the capital’s main squares, the movement has been a boon for street vendors.Ibrahim is a plasterer by trade, but when he saw crowds flocking by the tens of thousands to Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square […]
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article author: Reuters Author: Sat, 2019-11-09 01:16 IDLIB: More than 60 medical facilities have been hit in Syria’s Idlib province in the past six months, including four this week, and appear to have been deliberately targeted by government-affiliated forces, a UN rights spokesman said on Friday. Idlib in Syria’s northwest, the target of a Russian-backed […]
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Author: AFP article author: AFP ID: 1573236295124094400 Fri, 2019-11-08 17:55 JERUSALEM: Israel’s Premier Benjamin Netanyahu said Friday that Naftali Bennett would be appointed defense minister and their parties would unite, as the political system remained deadlocked after two inconclusive elections. Netanyahu, who has so far failed to form a coalition after a September 17 poll, […]
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