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Headline: Trump Win to Spur Massive Building Wave in Jerusalem
The election of Donald Trump has led to the fast-tracking of plans to build 1,400 new homes in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo as Israel anticipates an end to the “de facto” building freeze in place during the Obama administration. An official from the Jerusalem municipality said the construction in Ramat Shlomo, which is located past the Green Line, is set to be approved in light of Trump’s victory. Trump is widely expected to ease the US’s hardline anti-settlement policy, which led to frosty relations between the two allies over the past eight years and strangled building in Judea and Samaria. “In Jerusalem, it’s as if Trump is already in office,” said the municipality official on Sunday, the Jerusalem Post reported. “The problem is that nobody knows what his policies will actually be.” He dismissed any denouncement from the lame-duck administration. “Even if the [current] State Department or White House issues a condemnation, it won’t be worth much at this point.” Construction in Ramat Shlomo has been hotly contested under Obama’s State Department, which claims that building Jewish homes in East Jerusalem threatens the possibility of a two-state solution.
Nov. 21, 2016
Headline: All eyes on the Golan Heights for the Syrian Army as the jihadist rebels surrender last West Ghouta stronghold
The jihadist rebels of Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham (formerly Al-Nusra Front) surrendered Khan Al-Sheih on Sunday to the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) after more than four years of battle in this key West Ghouta town near the Syrian capital. With over 3,700 soldiers from the 4th Mechanized and 7th Armored divisions surrounding Khan Al-Sheih for months, the Syrian Arab Army just received a major boost in terms of manpower to the strategic Golan Heights front in the Al-Quneitra Governorate. For several months, the Syrian Arab Army’s High Command has discussed operations in the Golan Heights; however, their elite forces were hampered down by the heavy battles taking place in both Darayya and Khan Al-Sheih. When it came time for the jihadist rebels to surrender Khan Al-Sheih this week, they asked the Syrian Arab Army’s High Command for transportation to the Dara’a Governorate; this was immediately rejected because Jabhat Fateh Al-Sham would send these reinforcements to the Golan Heights. Now that the 4th Mechanized Division’s elite 42nd Brigade is free to be redeployed, the Golan Heights front will become the new battle-zone in southern Syria, as the government attempts to isolate the jihadist rebels near the Israeli border.
Nov. 21, 2016
Jordan
Headline: Secret Israel-Jordanian-Syrian border talks begin
Israel, Jordan and Syria have embarked on secret discussions for the stabilization of their borders in southern Syria by restoring the status quo ante that reigned on the Golan prior to the outbreak of the Syrian civil war in 2011. This is reported exclusively by debkafile from intelligence, Washington and Moscow sources. The incoming Trump administration in Washington and Russian President Vladimir Putin are in the picture; so is the United Arab Emirates ruler, Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan. Although still at a preliminary stage, the talks have produced their first tangible result: A vanguard of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) has arrived on the Syrian side of the Golan. It has taken up position at its former Fawwar Camp base 4km east of Quneitra, which it evacuated during the Syrian fighting. The main body of the force, around 1,000 UN soldiers and 70 observers, is expected soon, to take up the task of reconstituting the former demilitarized zone that separated Israel and Syria under the 1974 armistice agreement. This DMZ runs 80km along the Hermon range up to the Lebanese border in the north and down to the Israel-Syrian-Jordanian triangle in southern Syria up to the Jordanian border. In the 25km long Golan strip, between half a kilometer and 10 deep, the IDF and Syrian army were originally limited as to the number of soldiers and types of weaponry they are allowed to maintain. The strip will revert to Syrian civil administration under UNDOF control, and the Israeli-Syrian border crossing point will be reopened in the Quneitra area under the joint supervision of UN, Israeli and Syrian officers. The military arrangements are still in discussion and changes may be introduced to this format.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://debka.com/article/25789/Secret-Israel-Jordanian-Syrian-border-talks-begin
Lebanon
Headline: Lebanon’s President Aoun invited to visit Saudi Arabia
Headline: Lebanon’s Aoun looks to revive ties with Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia’s Prince Khaled al-Faisal on Monday invited Lebanon’s recently-elected President Michel Aoun, a close ally of the Iran-backed group Hezbollah, to visit Saudi. Al Faisal, governor of Mecca and an adviser to the king, said during an official visit to Lebanon that Aoun had promised to visit as soon as a new Lebanese government was formed.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4882185,00.html
Saudi Arabia
Headline: Yemen thanks Saudi Arabia and UAE for helping lift Taiz siege
Headline: Saudi-led coalition says Yemen truce will not be renewed
Headline: Yemeni army resumes military operations
Headline: Yemeni ceasefire expires as clashes erupt across the country
Yemeni Vice President Lt. Gen. Ali Mohsen Saleh Al-Ahmar has expressed appreciation to the Kingdom and the United Arab Emirates for helping lift the siege of Taiz. He extended his appreciation during a call to Maj. Gen. Khaled Fadhel, commander of the alliance in the province, while meeting in the Saudi capital with Taiz Gov. Ali Maamari on Thursday. The King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid (KSRelief), under General Supervisor Abdullah Al-Rabeeah, played an important role in the efforts to help the inhabitants as it distributed food baskets through the humanitarian relief coalition in Taiz.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1013151/saudi-arabia
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4882118,00.html
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2016/11/21/Yemen-ceasefire-ends-without-extension.html
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/yemeni-ceasefire-expires-clashes-erupt-across-country/
Egypt
Headline: Sisi praises Trump, expects more US ‘engagement’ in region
Headline: Nearly 300 detained in Egypt over Sissi assassination plot, Sinai attacks
Headline: Egypt’s minority Nubians stage rally, demand land rights
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi praised US President-elect Donald Trump and said he expected greater engagement in the Middle East from his administration, in an interview with Portuguese media. “Personally I respect and appreciate” Trump, Sisi said according to an English translation of his remarks to Portuguese news agency LUSA published on Saturday. “I believe that President-elect Trump will be more rigorously engaged with the issues of the region,” he said. “As a matter of fact President-elect Trump has shown deep and great understanding of what is taking place in the region as a whole and what is taking place in Egypt,” he added. “That is why I am looking forward, and I am expecting more support and more reinforcement of our bilateral relations”. Meanwhile, Hundreds of Egypt’s ethnic minority Nubians have blocked a main road in the country’s south to protest the government’s plan to sell land they claim to be their ancestral territory. Monday’s protest, on the road between the city of Aswan and the Abu Simbel archaeological site, came after police last weekend prevented a group of Nubians from returning to their land. Nubians have been forcibly displaced four times in the 20th century, most recently in 1964 with the construction of the Aswan High dam. Egypt’s new constitution, adopted in 2014, grants Nubians the right to return to their land within 10 years of ratification.
Nov. 21, 2016
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/sisi-praises-trump-expects-us-engagement-region/
Headline: Syrian government refuses UN truce terms for Aleppo
Headline: Syrian Army nears total victory in Aleppo amid advances on all fronts
The Syrian government refused the UN envoy’s latest proposal for a truce in Aleppo on Sunday, calling on insurgents to withdraw and saying it would not grant autonomy to the rebel-held east in exchange for calm. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said restoring government rule was a matter of “national sovereignty,” and that Damascus would not allow the people of eastern Aleppo to be “hostages to 6,000 gunmen.” “We agreed on the need that terrorists should get out of east Aleppo to end the suffering of the civilians in the city,” he said. He spoke after meeting with UN envoy Staffan de Mistura, who acknowledged a “major disagreement” with al-Moallem and said a “creative” if interim solution was required to halt the violence. “We are only proposing that there should not be a radical dramatic change in the administration of Aleppo until there is a political solution,” he said.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4881957,00.html
Headline: ISIS suicide bomber drives headlong towards Iraqi troops at Tal Afar Airbase
Headline: ISIS increase use of suicide car bombs in bitter Mosul battle
Nail-biting footage has emerged of an Islamic State VBIED (vehicle-borne improvised explosive device) plunging towards positions held by the Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) during the battle for Tal Afar Airbase. Fortunately for the Iraqi soldiers, the suicidal driver was brought to an explosive halt just meters prior to reaching his designated target, two Iraqi armored Humvees. Following the PMU’s capture of Tal Afar Airbase, the Iraqi Armed Forces have now turned their attention to Tal Afar city, an ISIS bastion in the western part of Nineveh province. Should the PMU seize control of Tal Afar, their forces will effectively have cut off the Islamic State’s only supply road to Mosul, thus sealing the inevitable fate of the city.
Nov. 21, 2016
Headline: Turkey will “not remain silent” on PMU’s attack against ISIS-held Tel Afar
Headline: Turkish double standard on terror?- Turkish President Erodgan blasts European tolerance for Kurdish PKK members – all while Turkey hosts Hamas terrorists.
Turkey has said it will not remain silent on the Popular Mobilization Unit’s (PMU) offensive on the ISIS-held predominately-Turkmen town of Tal Afar, just west of Mosul in Iraq’s north. “(Iraqi) Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, had pledged through the United States that the PMU would not enter Tel Afar, but on the ground, it seems they did enter,” the Turkish presidency spokesperson, Ibrahim Kalin, said in a press statement on Sunday. He then went onto say that Turkey “will not remain silent”, and “warns the Iraqi government, through the United States, that it is ought to honor its commitments.” Turkey fears that the predominately Shi’ite PMU will carry out sectarian attacks on the Sunni Turkmen, an allegation that goes against the inter-faith policy of the militia. In more than two years of ISIS-occupation of Tel Afar, Turkey have never offered to liberate the city, but have threatened to do so against the PMU.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220614
Turkey
Headline: Turkey’s Parliament Set To Legalise Child Rape of ‘Married’ Victims
A new bill proposed by the Turkish parliament will allow those who rape underage children to be pardoned for the crime as long as they marry the victim after the act. The ruling party of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the AKP, has provoked outcry after they proposed the bill which would see the pardoning over some 3,000 child rapists. According to the AKP, the bill is intended to benefit men who have had sex with a minor they are in a relationship with, and deal with the complications of child marriage within the country the Telegraph reports. The new bill would be a reversal of a law that was passed over a decade ago in 2005 that criminalized child rape regardless if the victim and the attacker were married or not. The new bill also stipulates that if the marriage does not work out and the two parties agree to a divorce then the rapist would once again be arrested for the crime and continue any deferred sentence. Minister of Justice Bekir Bozdag defended the bill saying that it would help in cases where the girl became pregnant by keeping the man around in her life and able to provide economic assistance to her and their child.
Nov. 18, 2016
http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/11/18/turkey-legalizes-child-rape-rapist-marries-victim/
Headline: Turkey’s Erdogan warns NATO on sheltering ‘terrorist’ plotters
Headline: Erdogan: My people believe U.S. was behind coup attempt
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday warned NATO against sheltering “terrorist” soldiers after Turkish officers in the alliance’s command reportedly sought asylum after a failed putsch. “How can a terrorist, a terrorist soldier, a soldier who has been involved in plotting a coup, be employed in NATO?” Erdogan told journalists on a plane from Uzbekistan, the Milliyet newspaper reported. “They cannot do such a thing,” he said. On Friday, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said a number of Turkish officers serving in NATO command positions had requested asylum following the botched coup on July 15. Neither Stoltenberg nor Erdogan provided a number, although Erdogan said it was not high. Erdogan said his government demanded that soldiers who asked for asylum be extradited and warned the alliance against providing them with a haven. “NATO cannot entertain accepting asylum requests of this kind. Those in question are accused of terror,” he said. Stoltenberg said the NATO countries concerned would make their own asylum decisions rather than the alliance headquarters in Brussels.
Nov. 21, 2016
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/turkeys-erdogan-warns-nato-sheltering-terrorist-plotters/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220593
Iran
Headline: Expel Iran from OIC, Arab states urged
The Council of Gulf International Relations (COGIR) has urged Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) as well as Arab and Islamic states to expel Iran from the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) because of its harmful acts against Islamic unity and solidarity and its sponsoring of terrorism and promoting sectarianism. The Council also stressed that Tehran’s instigation of its agents in Yemen to target Makkah showed the Muslim world the hatred of this country for Islam’s holiest sites. This was announced by the President of COGIR and Chairman of its Arab Society for Press and Freedom of Information Dr. Tariq Al-Sheikhan. Last Month, 11 countries wrote a letter to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon cautioning that Iran was continuing a negative role in causing tension and instability in the region. The letter cited Tehran’s expansionist regional policies, flagrant violations of the principle of sovereignty and constant interference in the internal affairs of Arab states. The letter was signed by the UN ambassadors of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. UN Watch, a Geneva-based monitoring group, welcomed the letter, saying it was “important” that Muslim countries were speaking out against Iranian policies.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/gulf/2016/11/21/Expel-Iran-from-OIC-Arab-states-urged.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_of_Islamic_Cooperation
Afghanistan
Headline: IS Claims Kabul Shi’ite Mosque Blast That Killed 32
Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Monday’s suicide bombing of a Shi’ite mosque in the Afghan capital that killed at least 32 people and wounded more than 80 others. The bomber entered the crowded Baqir ul Olum Mosque in Kabul during a religious ceremony and detonated the explosives strapped to his body among the worshipers. General Faridoon Obaidi, head of Kabul’s Criminal Investigation Department, told reporters all the victims were civilians. A brief statement issued by IS’s media wing said it was behind the bloodshed. President Ashraf Ghani denounced the bombing as “unforgivable” and an act of enemies of Afghanistan aimed at dividing Afghan ethnicities. Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah condemned the attack, saying it targeted “innocent civilians – including children – in a holy place. It is a war crime and an act against Islam.”
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.voanews.com/a/ap-afghan-official-suicide-bomb-shiite-mosque/3605189.html
Ethiopia
Headline: CPJ accuses Ethiopia of intensifying press crackdown
A press freedom campaigner group has accused Ethiopia of intensifying crackdown on media under the recently imposed state of emergency. Last month, Ethiopia declared a six-month state of emergency after a wave of deadly anti-government demonstrations in Oromia and Amhara regions. The New York based group, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said the Horn of Africa’s nation has arrested or sentenced at least three journalists and bloggers under a state of emergency since October. “In recent weeks, Ethiopian authorities have jailed a newspaper editor, as well as two members of the award-winning Zone 9 bloggers’ collective, which has faced continuous legal harassment on terrorism and incitement charges” CPJ said in a statement extended to Sudan Tribune. “A fourth journalist has been missing for a week; his family fear he is in state custody” it added. The rights group urged the Ethiopian government to immediately release all journalists detained.
Nov. 19, 2016
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article60887
Sudan
Headline: Japan’s first gun-toting troops since WWII have deployed — to South Sudan
Last year, in the middle of the night, tens of thousands of Japanese protesters gathered outside their country’s parliament. Inside, legislators were engaged in a melee, as members of Japan’s biggest opposition party tried to grab a microphone from the chairman of a special parliamentary committee. The dissenters had the support of the protesters outside. With control of the microphone, the chairman could initiate a vote on a question that has divided Japan since its defeat in World War II: Should Japan reinstate its army’s ability to use force in conflicts abroad? Eventually, lawmakers from the governing party formed a protective cordon around the chairman, and the ensuing vote at least nominally brought Japan’s decades of pacifism to an end. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe successfully argued that Japan needed to flex its muscles, given North Korea’s persistent belligerence and unpredictability, as well as neighboring China’s intimidatingly large army. On Monday, however, Japanese forces were actually deployed — but not to any hot spots in East Asia. Instead, dozens of Japanese soldiers landed in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. By mid-December, 350 of them will be stationed there as part of a peacekeeping unit that will be authorized to use guns if needed to protect civilians, U.N. staff or themselves. The Japanese contingent is made up of trained engineers whose main mission is to engage in construction projects, but there are also plans for them to take a more active role in peacekeeping under an expanded mandate stemming from the security measures approved last year. Japanese troops have been deployed as part of U.N. peacekeeping missions before — starting in 1992 in Cambodia and including to South Sudan in 2012. Last year’s legislation means that the Japanese troops can now use weapons, notably in rescuing U.N. staffers who come under attack and defending U.N. peacekeeping facilities.
Nov. 21, 2016
Libya
Headline: Car bombing in Libyan city of Benghazi kills 3, wounds 26
A car bombing outside a hospital in Libya’s eastern city of Benghazi killed three people and wounded 26 on Monday, the hospital said, the third attack on the medical facility this year. The car detonated in the parking lot of Jalaa Hospital, which is located in the heart of the city, at a time when streets around the facility were full of children who had finished school for the day. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Mohammed Zwai, a hospital official, said the death toll is expected to rise as several of the wounded remain in critical condition. A police spokesman, Walid al-Urfi, said the car bomb was detonated by remote control. Benghazi, Libya’s second-largest city, has been the scene of more than two years of fighting between forces loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Hifter and Islamic militants, including an ISIS affiliate. Last week, Hifter’s forces expelled Islamic militants from their key stronghold in the city but deadly fighting continues in other areas.
Nov. 21, 2016
Algeria
Headline: Algeria’s Teachers, Others Strike to Protest Finance Bill
Teachers, health workers and local civil servants in Algeria have begun a three-day strike over government plans to tighten spending and increase the retirement age as part of the 2017 finance bill. Some students were given the day off on Monday as schools found there weren’t enough teachers. The head of the National Parents Association, Djamila Khiar, denounced the action by the 12 striking unions, saying teachers “don’t have the right to use students” to press demands. The government, coping with a fall in oil revenue, wants to raise taxes, freeze some salaries and set a minimum retirement age of 60. Protesters planned a sit-in on Wednesday at Algeria’s parliament, which is voting on the finance bill at week’s end.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/11/21/world/middleeast/ap-ml-algeria-strikes.html?_r=0
Armenia
Headline: Turkey unveils condition for opening border with Armenia
If the occupation of Azerbaijani lands ceases, Turkey’s doubts over opening the border with Armenia will be removed, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said, Anadolu news agency reported. Simsek made remarks at the 62nd session of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Istanbul. As for reason of not opening the border with Armenia, Simsek drew attention to the Armenian-Azerbaijani Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Stressing that the Turkey-Azerbaijan relations are at a very high level, Simsek stressed that Armenia must cease occupation of Azerbaijani lands. “If the occupation ceases, Turkey’s doubts over support for Armenia and opening of the check point will be removed,” he said. The conflict between the two South Caucasus countries began in 1988 when Armenia made territorial claims against Azerbaijan. As a result of the ensuing war, in 1992 Armenian armed forces occupied 20 percent of Azerbaijan, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. The 1994 ceasefire agreement was followed by peace negotiations. Armenia has not yet implemented four UN Security Council resolutions on withdrawal of its armed forces from the Nagorno-Karabakh and the surrounding districts.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://news.az/articles/world/116078
Headline: American jihadists on the move from Mosul pose threat to US
Clouds of black soot and the acrid stench of burning tires hang over the ISIS-controlled road in the early morning, as rockets whistle through the air toward the Peshmerga-held posts. The smoke helps ISIS fighters re-position, and even flee. In the case of foreign fighters, it could even allow them to live to fight another day in their homelands, including America. “The smoke is designed to dampen our vision. But this is more than normal, which means they are moving around the ISIS leaders,” one Kurdish lieutenant commander told FoxNews.com from the front line wrapping around Shengal, also known as Sinjar. “And likely, their key Western fighters, too.” Within the ranks of the brutal terrorist organization, Western fighters – especially those holding U.S. passports – have held an esteemed position, if only for propaganda purposes. In the early days of ISIS’ rise, Westerners routinely got the nicest homes, their pick of Yazidi sex slaves and the freshest food. According to an FBI spokesperson, 250 Americans have “traveled or attempted to travel” to Syria or Iraq to join ISIS or other terrorist groups over the past few years. It is not clear how many made it, but the FBI reports a decrease in recent months. The slowing of all foreign recruits – from a pinnacle of 2,000 per month to now less than 50 – comes as a result of both stricter border controls in neighboring countries and evident ISIS battlefield losses, which hurts their resolve and enlistment efforts.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/11/21/american-jihadists-on-move-from-mosul-pose-threat-to-us.html
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Headline: Officers douse pipeline protesters in subfreezing weather
Authorities on Monday defended their decision to douse protesters with water during a skirmish in subfreezing weather near the Dakota Access oil pipeline, and organizers said at least 17 protesters were taken to the hospital — including some who were treated for hypothermia. Protesters trying to push past a long-blocked bridge on a state highway late Sunday and early Monday were turned back by authorities using tear gas, rubber bullets and water hoses. At least 17 protesters were injured severely enough to be taken to hospitals, said Dallas Goldtooth, an organizer with the Indigenous Environmental Network. “Hypothermia, a number of head injuries from being shot with rubber bullets, one individual had a heart attack,” he said. Although Goldtrooth said a water cannon was used to douse the protesters, Morton County Sheriff’s spokesman Rob Keller denied that. He did confirm that water hoses owned by the Mandan Rural Fire Department were used to put out fires set by protesters and to turn back protesters during a violent clash that was “rapidly unfolding.”
Nov. 21, 2016
Headline: North Texas land owners fight back against federal land seizure
On this episode of The Jacki Daily Show, Rob Henneke joins the program to describe the legal battle he is waging on behalf of property owners in North Texas whose land is being seized by the Bureau of Land Management. Jacki expresses her disappointment that Republican leaders have not come to the defense of these aggrieved citizens. Jacki summarizes the absurd situation neatly: “Overnight, the Feds just show up one day and say, ‘So you thought this was your home, you’ve been paying taxes on it, but really it’s on federal land. It’s not your private property, it’s our property.’” Rob reveals the many tactics his team is pursuing to ensure his clients can keep their family homes, many of which have been in their possession for generations. Jacki also reviews Donald Trump’s likely energy policies; speaks with Andrew Browning, COO of the Consumer Energy Alliance, about the continuing importance of traditional fuels and the safety and efficacy of pipelines; and describes the bizarre letter she got from the federal government after her personal information, stored on a government server because of her former top secret security clearance, was hacked and stolen.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.theblaze.com/podcasts/north-texas-land-owners-fight-back-against-federal-land-seizure/
Headline: Militant attacks kill five soldiers, civilian in Mali
Twin attacks blamed on militants during weekend municipal elections in Mali have claimed the lives of at least five soldiers and one civilian, security sources say. In the first incident, security sources said on Monday that five Malian troops were killed after being ambushed while transporting ballot boxes in the restive north. “After the voting on Sunday, an army convoy taking the ballot boxes for counting was attacked in the north by jihadists. Five Malian soldiers were killed,” AFP quoted a source as saying. Separately, a group of militants nabbed several vehicles and killed a civilian in the town of Dilli in southwestern Mali overnight Sunday to Monday. “They arrived early Monday in Dilli. They attacked a council building. The jihadists then took off with two ambulances and a vehicle, after which they killed a civilian and made off for the Mauritanian border,” a local official said. This comes as Malians have voted in long-overdue local elections, which were tainted by a spate of violent attacks and opposition boycotts.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/11/21/494547/Mali-Dilli-CMA-Tuareg-alQaeda
Headline: Rohingya villages ‘destroyed’ in Myanmar, images show
More than 1,200 homes have been razed in villages inhabited by Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya minority in the past six weeks, Human Rights Watch says. The group has released a batch of new satellite images that it says show 820 structures were destroyed between 10-18 November. The military is conducting security operations in Rakhine but the government denies it is razing homes. The Rohingya are one of the world’s most persecuted minority groups. The BBC cannot independently verify the extent of destruction in Rohingya villages as the government has blocked international journalists from visiting the area, from where tens of thousands of people have fled. But a BBC correspondent on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border has spoken with fleeing Rohingya families who described what was happening in northern Rakhine as “hell on earth”. The government of Myanmar, which is also known as Burma, says that the Rohingya are setting fire to their own homes to attract international attention. Human Rights Watch previously identified 430 destroyed buildings in three villages from satellite images released on 13 November. Presidential spokesman Zaw Htay accused the group of exaggeration in responding to that report.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38049106
http://www.opendoorsuk.org/persecution/worldwatch/burma_myanmar.php
Headline: Putin says Russia will respond to NATO expansion
Headline: Russia to deploy S-400 and Iskander missiles in Kaliningrad
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Russia would take countermeasures in response to NATO expansion, RIA news agency quoted him as saying on Monday. “Why are we reacting to NATO expansion so emotionally? We are concerned by NATO’s decision making,” Putin was quoted as saying in an interview to be broadcast on Russian TV later on Monday.
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Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4882095,00.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-putin-nato-idUSKBN13G0ZN
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4882093,00.html
Headline: Russia quits Hague Court
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a directive on Wednesday to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in Hague. The ICC is meant to be the world’s first permanent court and works to prosecute leaders and countries for war crimes, genocide and “crimes against humanity.” In 2000, Russia signed the Rome treaty establishing the ICC, but never ratified it. The ICC was established in 1998, and currently has over 100 member states. Like Russia, the US also signed the treaty but declared in 2002 that they had “no intention” of ratifying it. Last Tuesday, the UN General Assembly’s Human Rights Committee approved a resolution condemning Russia’s “occupation” of Crimea and Sevastopol, and blamed Russia for discrimination against Crimean residents, as well as rights abuses. Last Monday, the ICC issued a preliminary report describing the events in Crimea as “an international armed conflict between the Ukraine and the Russian Federation.” Russia is also under continuous threat of sanctions and being sued in the ICC, since they are carrying out airstrikes to help Syrian nationals fight ISIS. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia’s withdrawal is an issue of “national interests” and explained Putin’s decree as a mere formality, since the agreement was never ratified in the first place. He also said Crimea was not occupied but had joined Russia in March 2014 after a legitimate popular vote. Though Russia does want international crimes dealt with in the ICC, the country is becoming increasingly frustrated with what it terms the ICC’s ineffectiveness. They are also dissatisfied with how the ICC handled the 2008 five-day war in Georgia, claiming the court ignored continued aggression by Tbilisi against South Ossetia civilians.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220600
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Headline: China says would consider Turkey membership of security bloc
Headline: Erdogan: We can join Shanghai Pact instead of the EU
China is willing to consider any application from NATO-member Turkey to join a Russian and Chinese-led security bloc, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday, after Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his country could join. China, Russia and four Central Asian nations — Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — formed the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in 2001 as a regional security bloc to fight threats posed by radical Islam and drug trafficking from neighbouring Afghanistan. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said that Turkey is already a dialogue partner of the bloc and has for a long time closely cooperated with it, which China appreciates. China attaches great importance to Turkey’s wish to strengthen that cooperation, he told a daily news briefing. “We are willing, together with other members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and in accordance with the rules of its legal documents, to seriously study it on the basis of consensus consultation,” Geng added, without elaborating.
Nov. 21, 2016
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4882090,00.html
https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/erdogan-can-join-shanghai-pact-instead-eu/
Headline: Pope extends power to forgive abortion to all Roman Catholic priests
Pope Francis on Monday extended indefinitely to all Roman Catholic priests the power to forgive abortion, a right previously reserved for bishops or special confessors in most parts of the world. Francis, who has made a more inclusive and forgiving Roman Catholic Church a characteristic of his papacy, made the announcement in a document known as an “apostolic letter” after Sunday’s close of the Church’s “Holy Year of Mercy.” He said he wanted to “restate as firmly as I can that abortion is a grave sin, since it puts an end to an innocent life” but “there is no sin that God’s mercy cannot reach and wipe away when it finds a repentant heart seeking to be reconciled with (God).” Francis had already temporarily granted the power to all priests to give what is known as “sacramental absolution” for abortion during the Holy Year, from Dec. 8 to Nov. 20, but the solemn tone of his words in Monday’s letter suggested that the change would last for at least the rest of his papacy.
Nov. 21, 2016
Headline: Iran reports outbreaks of H5N8 bird flu in Tehran area
Iran reported two outbreaks of the highly contagious H5N8 bird flu virus at farms located in the Tehran region, the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) said on Monday, citing a report from the Iranian agriculture ministry. The outbreaks killed some 5,600 birds out of a total of nearly 283,500 on the farms, the OIE said in a report posted on its website. All animals were killed or slaughtered. “A post outbreak investigation to trace the source of infection is ongoing to detect the probable spread and circulation of this subtype,” the ministry said in the report. The H5N8 virus has never been found in humans but has infected wild birds and farms in several European countries as well as in Israel over the past weeks.
Nov. 21, 2016
Headline: “Allah, Kill the Despicable Christians”- Muslim Persecution of Christians, August 2016
Islamic hate for Christians was on display throughout the month of August. Shortly after an 80-year-old Catholic priest in France was slaughtered by Muslims who stormed his church during mass, the 16-year-old Muslim son of an Islamic cleric living in Belgium made a video and posted it on social media. In the video, he appears walking along the main street of the Belgian city of Verviers during Ramadan while making prayers to Allah, which include: “Allah, kill the despicable Christians. Allah, kill each and every last one of them….” According to Immigration Minister Theo Francken: “It’s obvious that his father, the imam, is promoting such ideas not just to fighters to join the battle in Syria, but also to his own children. The young man who appears in the video reflects the father’s views, and I understand and empathize with the great concern that city residents have over this.” A deportation order was last reported as pending a court appeal. Similarly, in the August edition of Dabiq, ISIS’s propaganda magazine, the jihadi organization urged Muslims to destroy the “arrogant Christian disbelievers” and urged them to “pray for Allah’s curse to be upon the liars.” ISIS also threatened Christians to “break the cross.” Those who do and convert to Islam will “enter the Gardens of Paradise,” and those who reject Islam and cling to the cross will die in a “futile” war against ISIS. As if the Christians of Nigeria were not persecuted enough by Muslim groups, Boko Haram’s new leader, known for killing nonconformist Muslims as well, announced that Christians are now its number one and primary target, and that Boko Haram will continue to “bomb churches and kill Christians while ending attacks on mosques and markets used by ordinary Muslims.” Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the new leader, also spoke of “booby-trapping and blowing up every church that we are able to reach, and killing all of those who we find from the citizens of the Cross.”
Nov. 20, 2016
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9350/kill-despicable-christians
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