Iraq forces retake over a third of west Mosul, commander says
Author: Tony Gamal-Gabriel with Salam Faraj | AFPSun, 2017-03-12ID: 1489312691385991500 MOSUL, Iraq: Iraqi forces have retaken more than a third of west Mosul from the Daesh group, a commander said, as Baghdad’s troops fought Sunday to advance deeper into the city. Iraqi forces launched the operation to recapture west Mosul — the most populated urban area still […]
Dutch PM defends expulsion of ‘undesirable’ Turkish minister
Author: AFPSun, 2017-03-12ID: 1489317047996233900 THE HAGUE: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte Sunday stood by his government’s decision to expel a Turkish minister, saying she had been an “undesirable” visitor to The Netherlands. “What happened yesterday is totally unacceptable,” Rutte told the public NOS broadcaster, after Turkey’s Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya ignored repeated Dutch requests to […]
Richard Gere slams Israeli settlements as 'absurd provocation'
Author: Associated PressSun, 2017-03-12ID: 1489310389865921900 JERUSALEM: Richard Gere has lashed out at Israel over its settlements in territory that Palestinians want for a state. The “Pretty Woman” star came to Jerusalem for the local premiere of a new film by Israeli writer-director Joseph Cedar in which he stars. A story in Sunday’s Haaretz newspaper quoted the actor […]
Syrian family’s asylum first blow to Trump’s revised travel ban
Author: ReutersSun, 2017-03-12ID: 1489268743430913600WASHINGTON: A federal judge in Wisconsin dealt the first legal blow to President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban on Friday, barring enforcement of the policy to deny US entry to the wife and child of a Syrian refugee already granted asylum in the US.The temporary restraining order, granted by US District Judge William Conley […]
Europe-Turkey rift widens
Author: MENEKSE TOKAYSun, 2017-03-12ID: 1489268743380913300 ANKARA: A serious diplomatic crisis is unfolding between some European countries and Turkey after the Netherlands banned Mevlut Cavusoglu, Turkey’s foreign minister, from entering the country to speak in Rotterdam for Turkish émigré voters ahead of a April 16 constitutional referendum. The Netherlands announced that it would also close its land border […]
15 killed, dozens missing in Ethiopia garbage dump landslide
Author: APSun, 2017-03-12ID: 1489315855976092400 ADDIS ABABA: Officials and residents say 15 people have been killed in a landslide at a massive garbage dump on the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital, and several dozen people are missing. Addis Ababa Mayor Diriba Kuma says 15 bodies have been recovered since the landslide Saturday night at the Koshe Garbage Landfill. The […]
Assad calls US forces ‘invaders’
Author: ReutersSun, 2017-03-12ID: 1489264630930454900BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Assad said he had yet to see “anything concrete” from US President Donald Trump over his vow to defeat Daesh and called US forces in Syria “invaders” because they were there without the regime’s permission.Assad, in an interview with Chinese TV station Phoenix, said “in theory” he still saw scope […]
Italy clashes trigger political storm
Author: Angus Mackinnon | AFPSun, 2017-03-12ID: 1489314184366040200ROME: Fierce clashes between police and masked protesters in Naples triggered a row over whether the Italian city’s leftist mayor had encouraged activists bent on preventing a rightwing rival from speaking there.A debate that exposes several fault lines in national politics followed running battles on Saturday involving a small group that […]
US ‘cannot impose a Mideast solution’
Author: AFPSun, 2017-03-12ID: 1489264631150455500 WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has said that the US cannot impose a solution on the Israelis and Palestinians, nor can one side impose an agreement on the other. He said it during his first phone call with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Friday in which he invited the president to visit the […]
Iraq forces retake over a third of west Mosul, commander says
Author: Tony Gamal-Gabriel with Salam Faraj | AFPSun, 2017-03-12ID: 1489312691385991500 MOSUL, Iraq: Iraqi forces have retaken more than a third of west Mosul from the Daesh group, a commander said, as Baghdad’s troops fought Sunday to advance deeper into the city. Iraqi forces launched the operation to recapture west Mosul — the most populated urban area still […]
