Author: Zaynab Khojji ID: 1570041869063783700 Wed, 2019-10-02 21:33 BEIRUT: For the first time, female military personnel from the armed forces of Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq gathered at UNESCO’s regional office hall in Beirut to participate in a workshop on protecting … read more
Wed, 2019-10-02 18:29 BAGHDAD: Three people were killed and at least 115 wounded on Wednesday in renewed nationwide clashes between demonstrators and Iraqi security forces, the largest display of public anger against Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi’s year-old government. Domestic … read more
Author: AFP ID: 1570026142402015000 Wed, 2019-10-02 14:19 TUNIS: Tunisia’s electoral commission said Wednesday the country’s presidential election runoff would take place on October 13 despite calls to postpone the vote by the party of a jailed frontrunner. ISIE said campaigning … read more
Author: Zaynab Khojji ID: 1570025245681892100 Wed, 2019-10-02 17:07 AMMAN: Jordan’s Supreme Administrative Court said Wednesday that a ruling to end a nationwide teachers’ strike still applies and is in accordance with the law, Jordan News Agency (Petra) reported. The court … read more
Author: AFP ID: 1570024250841794000 Wed, 2019-10-02 13:37 QAMISHLI: Hundreds of Kurds demonstrated in northeast Syria on Wednesday in protest at their minority community’s “exclusion” from a United Nations-backed committee tasked with drafting a new constitution for the war-devastated country. Carrying … read more