Barham Salih — former Iraqi president of Iraq and widely respected politician in Washington — has been formally nominated to become the next UN high commissioner for refugees.
Category: 3. Middle East
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Barham Salih slated to become first Kurd and Iraqi to lead UNHCR
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Israel gives legal status to 19 West Bank settlements, media reports
JERUSALEM, Dec 12 (Reuters) – Israel’s cabinet has decided to give legal status to 19 settlements in the occupied West Bank, including two that were vacated 20 years ago under a pullout aimed at boosting the country’s security and the…
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Iran detains Nobel-prize winner in ‘brutal’ arrest
Iranian security forces on Friday detained the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges Mohammadi along with at least eight other activists in an arrest condemned as “brutal” by the Norwegian Nobel committee.
Mohammadi, who was granted temporary leave…
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Gaza civil defence says 16 dead as heavy rains batter territory
Gaza’s civil defence agency on Friday said at least 16 people had died in the last 24 hours, including three children who died from exposure to the cold, as a winter storm batters the territory.
Heavy rain from Storm Byron has flooded tents and…
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Iran frees child bride sentenced to death over husband’s killing: activists
Iranian authorities have freed a woman who was condemned to hanging over the killing of her husband who she married while a child, in a case that sparked international concern over the plight of women sentenced to death in the Islamic republic,…
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Gaza civil defence says 13 dead as heavy rains batter territory
Gaza’s civil defence agency on Friday said at least 13 people had died in the last 24 hours, including three children who died from exposure to the cold, as a winter storm batters the territory.
Heavy rain from Storm Byron has flooded tents and…
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‘Chilling effect’: Israel reforms raise press freedom fears
A raft of proposed measures from Israel’s ruling coalition targeting the media has sparked outrage, with critics warning the planned reforms would deliver a blow to press freedom.
Suggested changes to public broadcasting, coupled with a bid to…
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US aims for international Gaza force deployment early next year, say US officials
By Steve Holland and Michelle Nichols
WASHINGTON/UNITED NATIONS, Dec 12 (Reuters) – International troops could be deployed in the Gaza Strip as early as next month to form a U.N.-authorized stabilization force, two U.S. officials told…
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Chileans polarized ahead of presidential election as far-right candidate poised to prevail
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Ask many Chileans how their country fared in the past several years and they’ll describe a descent into disaster: Venezuelan gangs surged across porous borders, bringing unprecedented kidnappings and contract…
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China says it expelled Philippine aircraft, vessels near disputed atolls
BEIJING, Dec 12 (Reuters) – China said on Friday it had driven away a Philippine aircraft and multiple vessels near disputed atolls in South China Sea, in the latest in a series of confrontations in the strategic waterway in recent…
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