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Bahraini Authorities Fire Toxic Gas on Diraz Demos, Several Protesters Suffocated

Bahraini security personnel fired toxic gases in Al-Al-Haidariah neighborhood in the Al-Diraz area besieged since June 20 during the early morning hours of Wednesday, resulting in cases of suffocation among citizens. Security authorities have tightened grip against the people of Diraz while accessing the besieged area, and were checking the ...

November 23, 2016

World

Merkel ‘Not Happy’ Trump Scrapping Pacific Trade Deal

German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday criticized plans by US President-elect Donald Trump to ditch a trans-Pacific trade deal, warning that future agreements will likely be worse. With a planned US-EU mega-deal called TTIP also looking doomed, Merkel predicted that in future “there will be more trade agreements, and they ...

November 23, 2016

World

France Court Frees Two Suspects in Terror Plot Probe

French authorities late Tuesday released two of the seven suspects arrested in police raids at the weekend which broke up a terror ring plotting an attack. Police swooped on Saturday night in the eastern city of Strasbourg and Marseille in the south following an investigation by security services lasting more ...

November 23, 2016

Middle East

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei

Imam Khameni: Iran to Act If US Renews Sanctions

Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, Imam Sayyed Ali Khamenei stressed that the Islamic Republic won’t keep mum if the United States proceeded to renew the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) which expires at the end of 2016. “So far, the current US government has committed several violations with regard to the ...

November 23, 2016

Middle East

Syrian Army Restores Major Hill in Quneitra, Kills More than 50 Terrorists in Hama

Syrian army cleared on Wednesday many areas from the terrorist groups across several provinces, inflicting heavy losses upon them in material and personnel. In Quneitra, a military source announced that the army restored Al-Naqqar Western Hill located to the east of Trinja in the northern countryside of the southern Quneitra ...

November 23, 2016

World

OPCW Ready to Study Russia Samples of Aleppo Chemical Attack

Russia has offered to provide samples linked to chemical weapon use in the Syrian city of Aleppo to the international chemical weapons watchdog. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Thursday it accepts reviewing the samples offered by Russia in relation to the use of chemicals as ...

November 23, 2016

Middle East

Turkey’s Erdogan Says EU Parliament Vote Has ‘No Value’

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that a European Parliament vote set to back a freeze of membership talks with Ankara over its relentless post-coup crackdown would have “no value”. The non-binding vote set for this week threatens to escalate tensions between the European Union and Turkey, which reached ...

November 23, 2016

Middle East

Israeli Bid to Silence Mosque Prayer Calls Revived

A controversial Israeli bill to silence the Muslim call to prayer is to go forward after it was amended so as not to affect the Jewish Shabbat siren, the speaker’s office said Wednesday. Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, had blocked the draft law in its original form for ...

November 23, 2016

World

Computer Scientists Urge Clinton Campaign to Challenge Election Results

Hillary Clinton’s campaign is being urged by a number of top computer scientists to call for a recount of vote totals in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, CNN reported. According to a source with knowledge of the request, the computer scientists believe they have found evidence that vote totals in the ...

November 23, 2016

World

South Korea, Japan Sign Controversial Intelligence Deal

Japan and South Korea signed a controversial agreement on Wednesday to share defense intelligence on North Korea, despite protests from opposition parties and activists in Seoul. South Korea’s defense ministry said the accord was “necessary” in the face of “growing” military threats from Pyongyang, which has conducted two nuclear tests ...

November 23, 2016