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Two shot dead in Suez protest
CAIRO: Police shot and killed two protesters in Suez, Egypt, early on Friday, a health official said, the first to die in clashes that erupted around the country after a riot at a soccer stadium killed 74, as sports violence spiralled into a new political crisis for Egypt. Protesters blame police for failing to control the riot after the soccer game in Port Said. In Cairo, thousands demonstrated on Thursday in front of the...
 
 
Strike on Iran 'likely' in April
BRUSSELS: US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said he believes there is a “strong likelihood” that Israel will strike Iran’s nuclear installations this spring, the Washington Post said Thursday in an editorial. When asked about the opinion piece by reporters travelling with him to a North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) meeting in Brussels, Panetta brushed it aside. “I’m not going to comment on that. David Ignatius can...
   
West tries hard to persuade Israel against strike
WASHINGTON: Israel’s major allies in the West are working hard to talk it out of a unilateral military strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, arguing forcefully that an attack ultimately would strengthen, not weaken, the rulers in Tehran. The United States is leading the persuasion initiative, even though Washington largely has concluded that outside argument will have little effect on Israeli decision-making. The West accuses...
 
 
US condemns bombings in South Kordofan, Blue Nile
WASHINGTON: The White House on Thursday condemned the “unjustified and unacceptable” bombing of civilians by the Sudanese military in the states of Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile. President Barack Obama’s spokesman Jay Carney expressed deep concern about fighting in the areas and called on the Sudanese government to grant “immediate and unconditional humanitarian access” to civilians. “The United States strongly condemns the...
   
Top cleric urges Iraq leaders to compromise
BAGHDAD: Iraq’s most prominent Shiite cleric has urged politicians to make concessions to solve the country’s ongoing political crisis, an aide to the leader said on Friday. Ahmed Al Safi, who often speaks for Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, said that the cleric believed that Iraq’s leaders are taking the country “into the unknown.” “Politicians must work fast and make concessions to solve the crisis,” Safi told worshippers...
 
 
Tunisia seizes dozens of Ben Ali yachts and cars: Report
TUNIS: Tunisian authorities have seized dozens of yachts as well as cars, company shares and houses belonging to ousted leader Zine Al Abidine Ben Ali and his family, the TAP news agency said Thursday. Confiscated items include 34 vehicles, shares in 117 companies, 233 property deeds and 48 yachts and two homes, according to a ministry official quoted by the news agency. The deposed president, who fled into exile in Saudi Arabia...
   
Freed aid workers now with UN in Yemen
BERLIN: The German Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that four foreign aid workers kidnapped in Yemen have been released and handed over to United Nations offices in Sanaa. It welcomed the release of the Colombian, German, Iraqi and Palestinian workers taken hostage on Tuesday north-west of Sanaa where they worked at the UN’s Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Yemeni Electricity Minister Saleh Sumai told AFP...
 
 
Diplomats draft Syria compromise
UNITED NATIONS: UN diplomats said on Thursday they had come up with a new draft resolution condemning a bloody crackdown on dissent in Syria that would now be sent back to their governments for deliberations. They predicted rapid approval after removal of an explicit demand that President Bashar Al Assad step aside. The latest draft, obtained by the Associated Press, still “fully supports” the Arab League’s Jan. 22 decision...
   
Yemenis stage anti-Saleh protest in New York
NEW YORK: Activists protested on Thursday outside the luxury New York hotel where they believe Yemen’s embattled president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, is staying while seeking medical treatment. The Yemeni leader’s whereabouts have not been confirmed since he arrived in the United States on Saturday on a chartered flight. US authorities let him in to receive treatment for wounds suffered in an assassination attempt. Protesters and Yemen...
 
 
Libya’s ex-envoy to France dies in custody: HRW
TRIPOLI: Libya’s ex-ambassador to France, Omar Brebesh, has died in the custody of a militia from possible torture, less than 24 hours after he was detained by the armed group, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday. HRW said a Tripoli-based militia from the town of Zintan detained Brebesh on Jan.19 and that a preliminary autopsy found the cause of death included “multiple bodily injuries and fractured ribs.” “Photos of Brebesh’...
   
US tourists, guide seized in Egypt’s Sinai freed
CAIRO: Two American women and their Egyptian tour guide, who were captured by armed Bedouins in the Sinai peninsula on Friday, have been released unharmed after several hours, security officials said. The three arrived back at their hotel in the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, where they were met by South Sinai’s governor and security chief, officials said. Masked gunmen had held up the tourists’ bus at Wadi Al Soal...
 
 
Two wounded in Israeli air strike in Gaza
GAZA CITY: Two Palestinians in the Gaza Strip were wounded by Israeli air-strikes early Friday morning, Palestinians said, only hours a visit of the UN chief to the Hamas-controlled territory. According to a spokesman for Gaza emergency services, a three-and-a-half-year-old girl was seriously wounded by an air strike at a home in the northern Gaza Strip town Beit Lahiya, which also left a man moderately wounded. Five other...
   
Qaeda lost ground in Iraq but ‘still a danger’
BAGHDAD: The ranks of Al Qaeda have thinned dramatically in recent years but the organisation remains a serious threat in Iraq, according to a Baghdad military spokesman. “According to the numbers of our intelligence services, which are the same as those of the Americans, Al Qaeda had 33,000 members in 2006. Today, they are no more than 3,000,” Qassem Atta told the pan-Arab Al Sharq Al Awsat newspaper. “Despite this dramatic drop,...
 
 
Quartet plan calls for moves to boost confidence
RAMALLAH: Wassel Abu Yousef, a member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) executive committee and the Palestinian representative to the exploratory talks with Israel in Jordan, has said that the international Quartet have put together an incentives package that would build trust between the sides and jumpstart the stalled peace process The Quartet of international Middle east mediators includes the US, the UN,...
 
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