BEIRUT, Nov 10 (AP): With the fall of the Islamic State group's last significant stronghold in Syria, Iranian and Russian-backed Syrian troops now turn to face off with their main rival, the US-backed forces holding large oil fields and strategic territory in the country's north and east.The complicated map puts...
Read moreRIYADH, Nov 10 (AFP): Saudi Arabia said Thursday 201 people are being held for questioning over an estimated $100 billion in embezzlement and corruption, after the biggest purge of the kingdom's elite in its modern history.Princes, ministers and a billionaire business tycoon were among dozens of high-profile figures arrested or...
Read moreNEW YORK, Nov 10 (Al Jazeera): A former US Marine instructor who abused Muslim military recruits - including ordering them into an industrial clothes dryer and turning it on - will be sentenced to prison on Friday. Gunnery Sergeant Joseph Felix, 34, was found guilty of "maltreatment" on Thursday after...
Read moreMANILA, Nov 10 (Reuters): Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, who is facing international criticism for his bloody war on drugs, said his country was willing to host a "world summit" to tackle how nations can protect human rights. The firebrand leader, who spoke in a news conference late on Thursday while...
Read moreRIYADH, Nov 10 (BBC): French President Emmanuel Macron has paid an unscheduled visit to Saudi Arabia amid an escalating crisis between the kingdom and Lebanon.His trip comes days after Lebanese PM Saad Hariri resigned while in Riyadh, saying he feared for his life.Foes Saudi Arabia and Iran have accused each...
Read moreLONDON, Nov 10 (BBC): Theresa May has outlined plans to set the UK's departure date and time from the EU in law, warning she will not "tolerate" any attempt to block Brexit.She said the EU Withdrawal Bill would be amended to formally commit to Brexit at 23:00 GMT on Friday...
Read moreOTTAWA: Nov 10 (Al Jazeera): The 50-year-old former prisoner says that's why he filed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the Canadian government, alleging it was complicit in his detention and torture at the US-run military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Ameziane was detained without charge or trial at Guantanamo from early 2002...
Read moreHYDERABAD, Nov 10: Ahead of Ivanka Trump's visit to Hyderabad to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit at the end of this month, the city Police has launched a massive drive to remove beggars from the streets, saying "these acts are dangerous to the safety of the vehicular traffic and public...
Read moreISLAMABAD, Nov 10 (AP): Hundreds of Islamists have camped out on the edge of Pakistan's capital to demand the removal of the country's law minister over a recently omitted reference to the Prophet Muhammad in a constitutional bill.The rally began with a few hundred members of the small radical Tehreek-i-Labaik...
Read moreIndonesia selfie museum draws fire with Nazi displayJAKARTA, Nov 10: A leading Jewish organization has called for an Indonesian waxworks museum to remove a Nazi exhibit at which visitors take selfies with a Hitler figure standing before an image of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Center,...
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