Tillerson: Use of pre-emptive force an option with North Korea
Author: APFri, 2017-03-17ID: 1489761104962861000 SEOUL: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Friday it may be necessary to take pre-emptive military action against North Korea if the threat from their weapons program reaches a level “that we believe requires action.” Tillerson outlined a tougher strategy to confront North Korea’s nuclear threat after visiting the world’s most heavily armed […]
Rare butterfly killer convicted in Britain
Author: AFPFri, 2017-03-17ID: 1489759158522740500 BRITAIN: A British man has been convicted of capturing and killing two of Britain’s rarest butterflies, the endangered Large Blues, which have been a prized collector’s item since the Victorian era. Judges at the court in the southwest city of Bristol late on Thursday found 57-year-old Philip Cullen guilty of killing the Large […]
Indian farmer wins train in legal fight with railway
Author: AFPFri, 2017-03-17ID: 1489758106032628000 INDIA: An Indian farmer’s battle for proper compensation for land seized to build a railway reached an unexpected conclusion this week when a court awarded him a train. Sampuran Singh has been fighting for the money since 2015, when he went to court to argue that Indian Railways had underpaid him for a […]
Turkish daily depicts Merkel as ‘Frau Hitler’ on front page
Author: AFPFri, 2017-03-17ID: 1489757105922532400ANKARA: A Turkish pro-government newspaper on Friday depicted Chancellor Angela Merkel on its front page in Nazi uniform with a Hitler-style moustache, labelling the German leader “She Hitler” amid a bitter war of words between Ankara and Berlin.Right-wing tabloid-style daily Gunes (“Sun“) printed the picture along with the words in German: “#Frau Hitler” and […]
EU consumer authorities to take on Facebook, Google, Twitter
Brussels: European consumer protection authorities will ask social media companies Facebook Inc, Alphabet Inc and Twitter Inc to amend their terms of service within one month or possibly face fines, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday. The companies proposed some ways to resolve the issues and discussed them with the authorities on […]
Iraqi forces advance into Mosul’s Old City, Nuri mosque in sight
Author: ReutersFri, 2017-03-17ID: 1489751781891961000 MOSUL: Iraqi forces battling Daesh in Mosul advanced into the Old City and around the al Nuri mosque on Friday trying to seal off a main road to prevent militants sending in suicide bombers. Troops are meeting fierce resistance as militants retreat into the Old City, where street fighting is expected in the […]
Syria army says shot down Israeli plane, hit another
Author: AFPFri, 2017-03-17ID: 1489743215511253200 SYRIA: The Syrian army said Friday it shot down an Israeli plane and hit a second one as they were carrying out pre-dawn strikes near the famed desert city of Palmyra. “Our air defense engaged them and shot down one warplane over occupied territory, hit another one, and forced the rest to flee,” […]
US claims Syria strike, denies targeting mosque where 46 killed
Author: AFPFri, 2017-03-17ID: 1489742360951189400 SYRIA: The US said it carried out an air strike in Syria against an Al-Qaeda meeting but denied deliberately targeting a mosque where a monitor said on Friday 46 people were killed. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said most of the dead in the Thursday evening raid on Al-Jineh, in the northern […]
UN report on Israeli ‘apartheid’ seen as unprecedented
Author: HANI HAZAIMEHFri, 2017-03-17ID: 1489694267675000000 JEDDAH: A new report by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) sets two landmark precedents on the question of Palestine, a Palestinian rights activist told Arab News. The report, entitled “Israeli Practices Toward the Palestinian People and the Question of Apartheid,” has drawn swift criticism from the UN […]
From Bethlehem to the Big Apple: An Arab American’s historic run for New York City Council
Author: DAOUD KUTTABFri, 2017-03-17ID: 1489694267685000200 AMMAN: It was in a cold and small Israeli prison cell that Khader El-Yateem received his calling. “I was arrested arbitrarily from our home by Israeli soldiers and was being accused of belonging to the communist party,” El-Yateem said in an interview with Arab News. Although a number of his family members […]
