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Month: October 2016

Nasrallah congratulates Aoun on presidential post

6 years ago
The Levant News - Beirut - "Secretary General of Hezbollah, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, telephoned the new elected President of Lebanon, Michel Aoun, and congratulated him on his election as head of state. He wished him long life and good luck in his new national responsibilities." Source: NNA
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Israeli Analyst Resigns from Haaretz Amid Sexual Harassment Allegations

6 years ago
The Levant News -- Senior Israeli journalist Ari Shavit resigned from both Haaretz newspaper and Channel 10 TV on Sunday as a second woman came forward to accuse him of sexual harassment. Shavit's latest accuser is a former J Street staffer who accused him of harassment during an encounter in April 2014. The Forward first […]
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Michel Aoun wins Lebanon presidency thanks to Hezbollah

6 years ago
BEIRUT: Michel Aoun has been declared Lebanon's 13th president after gaining a simple majority in the second round of voting in Monday’s highly-anticipated presidential election in Parliament, putting an end to the country’s 2-1/2 year vacuum. The Change and Reform bloc leader and founder of the Free Patriotic Movement initially received 84 votes, only four […]
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Western powers meet Libyan PM over political standoff

6 years ago
The Levant News -- The U.S., British and Italian foreign ministers began talks with Libyan Prime Minister Fayez Seraj on Monday to tackle a political standoff preventing Tripoli's U.N.-brokered unity government from expanding its authority outside the capital. Seraj and his two deputies met British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry […]
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Iraqi forces attempt first push into Mosul as offensive enters third week

6 years ago
By Stephen Kalin and Maher Chmaytelli | EAST OF MOSUL/BAGHDAD, IRAQ -- An elite Iraqi army unit advanced towards the built-up area of the Islamic State stronghold of Mosul on Monday after two weeks of fighting to clear surrounding areas of the insurgents. Military commanders said that the U.S.-backed offensive to recapture Mosul -- the […]
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Lebanese Parliament elects Michel Aoun as president

6 years ago
By Tom Perry and Laila Bassam for REUTERS| BEIRUT -- Twenty-six years after being forced from Lebanon's presidential palace and into exile by the Syrian army, Michel Aoun is set to be elected head of state on Monday, backed by many of his old enemies. Barring a surprise, many of Lebanon's sectarian politicians will back […]
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A picture and its story: Severe malnutrition in Yemen

6 years ago
By Abduljabbar Zeyad for REUTERS | HODAIDA, YEMEN -- The emaciated frame of 18-year-old Saida Ahmad Baghili lies on a hospital bed in the red sea port city of Hodaida, her suffering stark evidence of the malnutrition spread by Yemen's 19-month civil war. Baghili arrived at the Al Thawra hospital on Saturday. She is bed-ridden […]
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"Popular Mobilisation" launches offensive to seal off western Mosul

6 years ago
By Stephen Kalin and Ahmed Rasheed for REUTERS | Iraqi Shi'ite militias launched an offensive toward the west of Mosul on Saturday, an operation that will tighten the noose around Islamic State's Iraq stronghold but has alarmed Turkey and could inflame tensions in the mainly Sunni area. The battle for Mosul is expected to be […]
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War pushes Yemen to partition, thwarting peace efforts

6 years ago
By Noah Browning for REUTERS| DUBAI | Yemen has endured thousands of air strikes and the deaths of more than 10,000 people in a 19-month war that has also unleashed hunger on the desperately poor country - but its biggest challenge may be yet to come. The conflict has led to Yemen's de facto partition, […]
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Saudi-led raid kills 60 at Yemen security site, prison: official

6 years ago
The Levant News -- Saudi coalition warplanes bombed a security complex near the Yemeni port city of Hodeidah, killing 60 people including inmates of a prison on the site, a regional official, relatives and medical sources said on Sunday. The prison in the city's al-Zaydiyah district was holding 84 inmates when it was struck three […]
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Britain, U.S. sending planes, troops to deter Russia in the east

6 years ago
By Robin Emmott and Phil Stewart for Reuters| BRUSSELS - Britain said on Wednesday it will send fighter jets to Romania next year and the United States promised troops, tanks and artillery to Poland in NATO's biggest military build-up on Russia's borders since the Cold War. Germany, Canada and other NATO allies also pledged forces […]
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IS executes dozens of prisoners near Mosul, officials say

6 years ago
By Stephen Kalin and Michael Georgy | ISIS militants have in recent days executed dozens of prisoners taken from villages the group has been forced to abandon by an Iraqi army advance on the city of Mosul, officials in the region said on Wednesday. Most of those killed were former members of the Iraqi police […]
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Israeli forces kill Palestinian woman in West Bank

6 years ago
The Levant News -- Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday shot dead a 19-year-old Palestinian woman who Israeli police claimed that she had advanced towards them with a knife in her hand at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank. A police spokesman said the woman was shot after ignoring orders to halt. Over the past […]
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Iraq urges U.S.-led coalition to prevent Islamic State escape to Syria

6 years ago
The Levant News -- Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday it was the duty of the U.S.-led coalition to prevent Islamic State militants from escaping into nearby Syria from the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The coalition is providing air and ground support to Iraqi government and Kurdish forces that launched an offensive […]
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Russian parliament approves suspension of plutonium accord with U.S.

6 years ago
The Levant News -- The lower house of the Russian parliament on Wednesday approved President Vladimir Putin's decree on suspending a plutonium accord with the United States, Russian news agencies reported. The agreement was concluded in 2000 and bound the two sides to dispose of surplus plutonium originally intended for use in nuclear weapons. Agencies […]
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