Hundreds Protest in Beirut Over Trash Crisis Thursday August 27th, 2015 at 3:49 PM
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Hundreds of people have kept up protests in Beirut as the crisis over garbage collection worsened with fresh piles of trash accumulating in streets of the capital.
China is by far the biggest trading partner for Hamburg, the largest port in the world’s fourth-biggest economy. Now that lucrative traffic is slipping.
A Pentagon investigative office is examining an allegation that the U.S. military may have distorted intelligence data to cast a positive light on the war against Islamic State extremists, according to officials familiar with the probe.
Senate Democrats have written unusually long, detailed formal announcements on their position on the Iran nuclear deal, publicly chronicling a wrenching decision-making process.
A fugitive British hacker who had become one of Islamic State’s top online terrorist recruiters was killed by a U.S. drone strike near Raqqa, Syria on Tuesday, two people familiar with the operation said.
Chinese authorities accused the municipal officials and port executives in the city of Tianjin of dereliction of duty in connection with the deadly warehouse explosions this month in the northeastern city.
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Ukraine’s government secured a vital debt-relief deal, the country’s finance ministry said, a key step toward unlocking billions of dollars in emergency financing.
This year’s fighting season is the first where Afghan security forces have had to battle the Taliban pretty much on their own, writes Yaroslav Trofimov. So far, they are standing their ground where it matters.
Greece is set to officially begin its second election campaign period this year, after opposition parties, as expected, conceded they can’t assemble a ruling majority in parliament to replace the outgoing government of Alexis Tsipras.
Austrian police said that at least 20 migrants have been found dead in a truck on a highway leading from the Hungarian border.
Instability drives Chinese to seek havens in global real-estate investments, as Australia worries about overheated market.
Immigration flows to the U.K. reached a record level during the year ended in March, amid a surge in new arrivals from other European countries as well as from further afield.
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Calls for political reform, however, collide with country’s entrenched, sectarian-based political system.
The Eurozone’s heavy reliance on exports leaves the region vulnerable as emerging markets stumble
The role of fiscal stimulus in spurring Canada’s ailing economy is emerging as a major theme in a national election campaign ahead here, with the ruling Conservative Party sticking to its balanced-budget pledge as its opponents promise to spend on infrastructure.
Iran’s foreign ministry on Wednesday reiterated its support for Hamas and other anti-Israel terrorist groups and said that aiding those who “stand against the Zionist regime is a principle of Iran’s policy.”
The Islamic Republic’s renewed backing of Hamas comes amid reports that relations between the two have been strained in recent months. However, Iran denies that this is the case and made clear this week that it will continue to back terrorist entities that seek Israel’s destruction.
“Iran’s support for all resistance groups continues similar to the past,” said Marzieh Afkham, a spokeswoman for Iran’s foreign ministry, to reporters in Tehran when asked whether the country’s position on Hamas had shifted.
Afkham went on to stress that “supporting members of the resistance front and those who stand against the Zionist regime is a principle of Iran’s policy,” according to Iran’s state-controlled Fars News Agency.
These terrorist groups, with Iran’s support, will “stand on the frontline of war against the Zionist regime [and] would maintain their unity and integrity.”
Iran’s renewed interest in and public support for Hamas is a sign that the Islamic Republic has no intention of moderating its extremist views in light of the recently secured nuclear deal, which officials in the Obama administration claimed would bring Iran into the global community of nations.
However, senior Iranian officials have claimed in recent weeks that Iran will expand its global terrorism agenda as a result of the deal.
Iran will “continue providing weapons to support the Middle Eastern countries fighting terrorism,” Javad Zarif, Iran’s foreign minister, was recently quoted as saying by Iran’s state-controlled press.
Following the nuclear deal, Iran will “preserve its defensive capabilities and send weapons to its regional allies,” according to Zarif.
Meanwhile, members of Hamas have praised Iran in recent comments and thanked the Islamic Republic for its support.
Mousa Abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official, praised Iran for enabling his group’s war against Israel.
“Iran’s various supports for Palestine have been precious, abundant and greatly influenced the Palestinian resistance,” Marzouk is reported to have said earlier this year.
More than 70 members of the Iranian parliament recently petitioned President Hassan Rouhani to increase “Iranian support for the regional resistance front after the nuclear agreement,” according to the report.
These Iranian lawmakers “called on the president to use the ministries of defense and foreign affairs to send aid to the Palestinians in accordance with instructions from the Supreme Leader to arm the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
Another top Iranian national security official, Javad Karimi Qoddousi, demanded this month that “all the senior Iranian officials … support aid for the Palestinian people and the resistance front so that the nuclear agreement [is not] exploited to strengthen Israel’s security.”
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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Maine's top law enforcement and emergency medical officials announced Wednesday that a special state police unit and three working groups will be created to address the state's drug epidemic.
Participants of a summit convened by Republican Gov. Paul LePage made the announcement at a news conference ...
The sharp drop in oil prices is starting to bite for the world's longtime top oil-producing nation, Saudi Arabia, and could threaten the seemingly unshakable social contract that has seen the kingdom's royal family rule for nearly a century with almost no opposition or oversight from the nation's masses.
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