Top Twitter accounts hacked by Erdogan supporters
Author: AFPWed, 2017-03-15ID: 1489577031621342900 PARIS: Several top Twitter accounts, including those of a German football club, a French ministry and BBC North America, were defaced Wednesday by pro-Turkish hackers with a message slamming “Nazi Germany” and “Nazi Holland.” “#NaziGermany. #NaziHolland. This is a small #Ottomanslap for you. See you on #April16. I wrote what? Learn Turkish,” read […]
Israel ex-defense chief says Erdogan seeking ‘neo-Ottoman empire’
Author: AFPWed, 2017-03-15ID: 1489588937932541400JERUSALEM: Israeli ex-defense minister Moshe Yaalon accused Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday of seeking a “neo-Ottoman empire” while warning of growing instability in the Middle East.Yaalon, seeking to build a campaign to become Israel’s next prime minister, spoke of his concerns while addressing regional issues in a meeting with foreign journalists.The ex-minister, […]
Dubai ruler orders men who fed live cat to dogs to clean zoo
Author: ARAB NEWSWed, 2017-03-15ID: 1489587448052345900 DUBAI: Three men who fed a live cat to their dogs have been ordered by Dubai’s ruler to clean the emirate’s zoo every day for three months. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, the ruler of Dubai, made the order after a disturbing video was widely circulated online, showing a cat being attacked and […]
Mosul battle reaching final stages — Abadi
Author: ReutersWed, 2017-03-15ID: 1489564841190447800BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi said the government offensive to recapture the city of Mosul from Daesh militants was in its final stages.Speaking at a news conference on Tuesday night, he warned the insurgents that they must surrender or be killed.Since launching the offensive on October, government forces have driven Daesh from eastern […]
Kazakh official: Syrian opposition to attend extended talks
Author: Associated PressWed, 2017-03-15ID: 1489563105780313200MOSCOW: Kazakhstan says peace talks in the capital, Astana, over ending the fighting in Syria have been extended and will be attended by representatives of Syrian opposition forces.“We expect the arrival of representatives from the Northern and Southern fronts of the armed Syrian opposition,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Onuar Zhainakov said Wednesday, according to […]
Erdogan hits out at Dutch over Srebrenica massacre
Author: AFPWed, 2017-03-15ID: 1489523627628158100 ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that the Netherlands would face more retaliation from Ankara in a spiralling diplomatic crisis, as he made a new jibe against the country over the 1995 Srebrenica massacre. In an uncompromising speech, Erdogan said a “yes” vote in an April 16 referendum on expanding his […]
Trump’s envoy holds his first meeting with President Abbas
Author: AFPWed, 2017-03-15ID: 1489523627538157800RAMALLAH: US President Donald Trump’s administration waded into the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict on Tuesday as one of his top advisers held his first meeting with Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas.After five hours of talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday night, Jason Greenblatt met Abbas in Ramallah in the occupied West […]
Russian-backed Syria talks derail
Author: ReutersWed, 2017-03-15ID: 1489521989637863700MOSCOW/ASTANA: Russian-led peace talks on Syria were derailed on Tuesday as fighters backed by Turkey boycotted a third round of meetings in Kazakhstan and the Kremlin indicated there were international divisions over the process. Russia, Bashar Assad’s most powerful ally, said the fighters’ reasons for staying away were unconvincing and their decision came as […]
Iraqi forces kick Daesh out of Mosul train station
Author: AFPWed, 2017-03-15ID: 1489519325937656600MOSUL: Iraqi forces said Tuesday they recaptured Mosul train station, once one of the country’s main rail hubs and the latest in a series of key sites retaken from radicals.Baghdad’s forces launched a major drive last month to oust Daesh from west Mosul, a battle that has pushed more than 80,000 people to flee […]
Baghdad holds detainees in ‘horrendous conditions’: HRW
Author: AFPWed, 2017-03-15ID: 1489519325887656300BAGHDAD: Iraq’s Interior Ministry is holding over 1,200 men and boys suspected of ties to Daesh in “horrendous conditions” without charge at facilities south of Mosul, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Tuesday.Security forces are searching for Daesh elements trying to sneak out of the city among civilians.“The Iraqi Interior Ministry is holding at least […]
