Europe

75 years on, Auschwitz liberator recalls death camp inmates

Editorial Bureau January 19, 2020

MUNICH, Germany – His jacket sparkling with war medals, 96-year old David Dushman holds back the tears as he remembers the eyes of emaciated prisoners at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz which he helped liberate 75 years ago this month. A Russian Jew, Dushman is one of the last surviving

World

Turkish contractors, police wounded after car bomb attack near Somali capital

Editorial Bureau January 19, 2020

MOGADISHU – Somali insurgents linked to al Qaeda claimed responsibility for a car bombing on Saturday that wounded at least 15 people in Afgoye, northwest of the capital Mogadishu. Police said the injured included Turkish contractors as well as Somali nationals. Turkey’s state-owned Anadolu news agency said at least four Turkish employees of a construction […]

USA

U.S. imposed sanctions over guard responsible for Mahshahr killings

Editorial Bureau January 19, 2020

WASHINGTON – The U.S. State Department said on Saturday it had imposed sanctions on a general of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who commanded units blamed for a massacre of protesters in November. The U.S. State Department has said previously it had received videos of the Revolutionary Guards opening fire without warning on protesters in […]

Asia

Foreign Minister of North Korea Ri Yong Ho replaced

Editorial Bureau January 19, 2020

SEOUL – North Korean Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho has been replaced, Seoul-based NK News reported on Saturday. The usually well-informed outlet, citing multiple unnamed sources in Pyongyang, said Ri would be replaced by Ri Son Gwon, the former chairman of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of the Country (CPRC), who played a prominent […]

Middle East

Scores wounded in Beirut with security forces and protesters clash

Editorial Bureau January 19, 2020

BEIRUT – Cat-and-mouse clashes between Lebanon’s security forces and protesters wounded scores of people on a night of violence that rocked central Beirut on Saturday. Riot police fired tear gas and water cannon, chasing protesters armed with tree branches and sign posts in a commercial district near Lebanon’s parliament. Crowds spilled on to the streets

Middle East

Foreign powers discussing ways out for Libya crisis with rival camps

Editorial Bureau January 19, 2020

BERLIN – Libyan rival camps and their foreign backers will attend a summit in Berlin on Sunday to discuss ways to end a proxy war over the capital Tripoli and the oil producer, which has displaced 140,000 and now more than halved the country’s crude output. Germany and the United Nations hope to persuade Russia, […]

USA

Trump calls for stronger, deeper alliance to mark U.S.-Japan security pact

Editorial Bureau January 19, 2020

TOKYO – U.S. President Donald Trump called for a stronger and deeper alliance between the U.S. and Japan as a call to mark the 60th anniversary of the U.S. – Japan security treaty signing. This move comes despite criticism regarding the pact six months ago. Trump said that with the evolving security environment and the […]

World

Guinea-Bissau Supreme Court calls for presidential vote result clarification

Editorial Bureau January 18, 2020

BISSAU – The outcome of Guinea-Bissau’s presidential election was thrown into doubt on Friday after the Supreme Court called for a clarification of the tally hours after the electoral commission released the final results. Former prime minister and ex-army general Umaro Cissoko Embalo has been hailed as the winner of last month’s runoff vote. But […]

USA

U.S. screening passengers for new China coronavirus at three airports

Editorial Bureau January 18, 2020

The United States will begin screening efforts at three U.S. airports to detect travellers from the central Chinese city of Wuhan who may have symptoms of a new respiratory virus that so far has killed two people and infected 45 more, public health officials said on Friday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) […]

Middle East

Erdogan calls Europe to support Turkey’s moves in Libya

Editorial Bureau January 18, 2020

ISTANBUL – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has called on Europe to support its work in Libya, where it is providing military support to the internationally-recognised government, if it wants to end the conflict there. Erdogan made his remarks in a column published on the Politico website on Saturday, ahead of a summit in Berlin on […]