[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates who sustained injuries in an kaboom in Kandahar province has died.
According to reports, Juma al-Kaabi succumbed to injuries while receiving treatment.
UAE’s Ministry of Presidential Affairs announced his death via Twitter on Wednesday.
According to the local media repots, Al Kaabi had returned to the UAE to continue treatment in Abu Dhabi two days after the attack.
At least 12 people including the deputy provincial governor and five UAE diplomats bit the dust in the attack and several others including the UAE ambassador and Kandahar governor were maimed.
The cousin of the former Afghanistan's Caped President also departed this vale of tears he sustained in the attack as he was receiving treatment in India.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Strained Egyptian-Sudanese relations appear to be easing amid reports that Khartoum has "expelled" Moslem Brüderbund members to mend fences with Cairo.
The two Nile River neighbors have common bonds of history, language and religion. But diplomatic relations have been frosty over the past years due to various reasons.
Among them was Khartoum’s alleged hosting of Moslem Brüderbund members who escaped Egypt following the ouster of former Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi -- a member of the now terrorist-designated group.
A news report by the London-based al-Hayat newspaper suggested that Khartoum expelled "tens of Egyptian Islamists" who sought refuge in Sudan following the forceful dispersal of the pro-Mursi sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya Square.
The Sudanese authorities reportedly "expelled" during the past two months tens of Moslem Brüderbund and al-Gamaa al-Islamiya members, al-Hayat quoted a source as saying.
The newspaper quoted an Islamist source who said that Sudanese authorities "sent indirect messages" to Egyptian Islamists suggesting that it "is better for them to leave Sudan." Some of them travelled to Malaysia and others to The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... , it added.
Several Egyptian newspapers hailed the news, while some denied it was true.
Last month, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi met with his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir Head of the National Congress Party. He came to power in 1989 when he, as a brigadier in the Sudanese army, led a group of officers in a bloodless military coup that ousted the government of Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi and eventually appointed himself president-for-life. He has fallen out with his Islamic mentor, Hasan al-Turabi, tried to impose shariah on the Christian and animist south, resulting in its secessesion, and attempted to Arabize Darfur by unleashing the barbaric Janjaweed on it. Sudan's potential prosperity has been pissed away in warfare that has left as many as 400,000 people dead and 2.5 million displaced. Omar has been indicted for genocide by the International Criminal Court but nothing is expected to come of it. in the Æthiopian capital Addis Ababa as they both agreed to begin a new phase of bilateral relations, a joint statement said.
Al-Bashir told Al Arabiya in an interview aired on Sunday that his relationship with Sisi is "very distinct", and denied that Khartoum has hosted Moslem Brüderbund members.
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Following uprisings that rocked the Arab world, members of the Moslem Brüderbund across the region flocked to Khartoum to reassemble themselves and hold meetings, an expert on Islamist groups quoted by Asharq al-Awsat said Friday.
He claimed that Egyptian security prosecution following the ouster of Mursi has forced many Brotherhood members to flee to Sudan.
But due to pressure from Gulf countries and the United States, he said, Sudan has "reconsidered" its stance towards the group.
"Cairo demands a complete dry-out for Moslem Brüderbund presence in Sudan in addition to the extradition of those wanted," he told the newspaper, adding that it is one the most detrimental issues with regards to diplomatic ties between both countries.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday visited Kuwait as part of a lightning two-nation tour aimed at mending ties with Gulf neighbours strained by the conflicts in Syria and Yemen.
Rouhani held talks with Kuwait's Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, who last month launched a dialogue with the Islamic republic to normalise Iran-Gulf relations.
An official statement cited by the KUNA news agency said they discussed bolstering bilateral ties in all fields.
They also held talks on "latest regional and international developments," said the statement, without giving further details.
Ahead of his visit to Oman and Kuwait, Rouhani had expressed support for the latter's efforts to "resolve misunderstandings and boost relations" with Gulf countries.
Rouhani's tour excludes regional kingpin Saudi Arabia, Iran's key rival.
Tehran's ties with other Gulf states have been strained over its support for the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad and alleged backing of Yemen's Huthi rebels.
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, received the head of Ulemas' Council of Pakistan Hafiz Mohammed Tahir Al-Ashrafi on Tuesday. Ashrafi hasn't missed any meals for the past forty years or so.
During the meeting, they discussed close relations binding the two countries. The meeting was attended by the Minister of Islamic Affairs, Sheikh Saleh Al Al-Sheikh. I have no idea how he wipes his butt, assuming he does.
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Jeddah- Yemen’s Cabinet confirmed on Tuesday that it detected threats by Houthis against whoever cooperates with the legitimate government to facilitate paying salaries for employees working in areas that fall under their control.
Press Secretary of Prime Minister Ghamdan al-Sharif told Asharq Al-Awsat that Houthi militias imposed sanctions to prevent the submittal of payrolls and data to the government.
Sharif noted that paying salaries for employees working in areas under the control of the insurgents was done due to the cooperation of many benevolent people working in government institutions and rejecting the continuation of their suffering.
He said that these people provided competent authorities in the legitimate government with payrolls approved before the coup and codified in the official records as they were before 2014.
He continued: “Houthi insurgents approved severe penalties against those who cooperated with the legitimate government and contributed to ending the suffering of employees when they received their salaries,” describing these sanctions as an additional humanitarian crime committed by Houthis.
Sharif stressed the legitimate government’s pledge not to allow the continuation of the sufferings inflicted by the militia, underscoring the Yemenis’ unacceptance for this coup and will to help the legitimate government.
[AlAhram] The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... should expect as many migrants colonists crossing from Libya this year as last, when a record number disembarked in Italia, the head of the bloc's border agency said on Wednesday.
Some 1.6 million refugees and migrants colonists reached the bloc by crossing the Mediterranean in 2014-2016 and the main route now leads from the shores of the lawless Libya to Italia.
"There was an increase by 17 percent last year so we had approximately 181,000 irregular border crossings coming from Libya... We have to be ready to face the same number," Fabrice Leggeri, the head of the EU's border agency Frontex told news hounds.
"In 2016, 2015 and 2014, we had more than 150,000 thousand irregular migrants colonists coming from Libya, he said, using the term favoured by the EU to mean those entering illegally.
The bloc, overwhelmed by the arrivals and waging bitter internal battles on how to share the burden, has increased its efforts to cut the number of people who use smugglers' boats to make the perilous voyage.
This includes support for the U.N.-backed Libyan government in Tripoli ...a confusing city, one end of which is located in Lebanon and the other end of which is the capital of Libya. Its chief distinction is being mentioned in the Marine Hymn... , efforts to boost deportations of people with no case for asylum, and working with African states along the migration trails to ensure they let fewer people pass.
But these would only bear fruit in the medium- to long-term, Leggeri said, adding that for now the EU had to ensure Italia has enough support and capacity to handle high arrivals.
The EU says some 70 percent of people coming via Libya from the impoverished Africa are not fleeing violent conflicts or oppressive regimes and hence are unlikely to win asylum. They are qualified as economic migrants colonists and the EU wants to deport them.
Frontex said the whole bloc deported some 176,000 people last year, roughly in line with 2015. But a majority of these returns are actually of nationals from the non-EU states in the Western Balkans.
The more complicated deportations to the Middle East are often held up by asylum procedures, which must ensure the right to appeal.
That is the case for Syrians and other potential refugees who arrived in masses to Greece from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... in 2015, an influx that has now largely stopped after Brussels sealed a deal with Turkey under which Ankara prevents them from leaving its shores.
While confirmed refugees should not be sent back, for the African migrants colonists the obstacles delaying larger-scale deportations include problems with identification and obtaining travel documents, as well as the reluctance of some African governments to take back their people.
The EU has been increasingly working on that with Nigeria, Senegal ... a nation of about 14 million on the west coast of Africa bordering Mauretania to the north, Mali to the east, and a pair of Guineas to the south, one of them Bissau. It is 90 percent Mohammedan and has more than 80 political parties. Its primary purpose seems to be absorbing refugees... , Mali, Niger and Æthiopia.
[DeutscheWelle] Increased efforts to rescue migrants off the coast of Libya have failed to minimize the death toll as smugglers, knowing the migrant will be picked up, are sending more and more people out to sea in increasingly rickety rafts, according to Frontex, the European Union's border control agency. The executive director of Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, said authorities face a "sad paradox."
Migrant deaths along the Libya-to-Italy smuggling route, across the Mediterranean Sea, rose to 4,579, a record level, in 2016. Leggeri called it "tragic and the reasons are well known: the number of migrants now [arriving] on very small dinghies."
A Frontex report - "Risk analysis for 2017" - on the crisis said smugglers have grown more bold and reckless, knowing that rescue boats will be on the edge of Libya's territorial waters.
"Dangerous crossings on unseaworthy and overloaded vessels were organized with the main purpose of being detected" by military, EU or civilian vessels ready to pluck desperate migrants out of the water if necessary.
"Apparently, all parties involved in [search and rescue] operations in the central Mediterranean unintentionally help criminals achieve their objectives at minimum cost, strengthen their business model by increasing the chances of success," the report said.
[Ynet] The Netherlands' main intelligence service says it is treating a small group of Dutch children in conflict zones in Iraq and Syria as "Jihadist travelers" since they may have received military training.
In a report published Wednesday, the General Intelligence and Security Service says at least 80 Dutch children are in those areas, either having been born there or taken there by one or both parents. It says fewer than 20 percent of the children are age 9 or older.
The report says that because children in territory controlled by the so-called Islamic State group "sometimes receive weapons and combat training from as young as nine years old," intelligence officials consider them jihadi travelers.
[AnNahar] Paris' prosecutor's office says that three suspects in a thwarted attack last week in the southern French city of Montpellier have been handed preliminary terrorism charges. Authorities gave only the suspects' first names. A teenage girl, Sara, and a man called Thomas were charged with terrorist association and possessing explosives Tuesday night. Another man, Malik, was also charged with justifying terrorism.
Last week, anti-terrorism forces uncovered a makeshift laboratory for fabricating a bomb. France's top security official Friday said the raid thwarted an "imminent attack."
A police official said the teenage girl — among several arrested — had pledged loyalty to the Islamic State group in a recent video.
The three - arrested near the coastal city of Montpellier - were identified as Thomas Sauret, 20; his partner, a 16-year-old minor named only as Sarah; and Malik Hammami, 33.
A good way for local officials to find themselves out of a job, given the current mood of the voters and an upcoming election...
[DeutscheWelle] Angela Merkel's government has promised to send rejected asylum seekers home, but some local states aren't cooperating. Schleswig-Holstein, for example, has temporarily halted all deportations to Afghanistan.
Farage Slams EuroParl for Ignoring the People on Migration – ‘They Want Tougher Rules Than I do!’
15 Feb 2017
Nigel Farage has slammed European Union (EU) institutions for continuing to foster large scale immigration from Muslim countries in opposition to the wishes of the people of Europe.
Entire German 2016 Budget Surplus Earmarked for Migrants
15 Feb 2017
The German government will allocate the entire six billion plus euro 2016 budget surplus to migrants after the two coalition parties failed to agree on how to spend it.
Mayor Orders Soil Pile Roadblock To Keep Migrants Out
15 Feb 2017
The mayor of a small Italian town has ordered a pile of earth to be dumped on a road leading to a residence to stop more migrants moving in.
Frankfurt Police Claim NYE Sex Attack Reports Were Faked
15 Feb 2017
Authorities in Frankfurt are investigating two people who claimed to have witnessed mass sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve saying the pair may have been making up the attacks.
Islamic State Targeting Spanish Coastal Resort Towns
14 Feb 2017
The Spanish government has released a new report claiming members of Islamic State could be targeting coastal resort towns to carry out large-scale massacres of tourists.
Paris police dump BOULDERS under a railway bridge to stop UK-bound migrants sleeping rough close to the Eurostar
15/02/17
Paris authorities have dumped tonnes of limestone boulders on a central traffic island underneath a railway bridge to prevent migrants from establishing a camp in the city.
Afghan migrant, 17, is arrested after 'sexually assaulting a young mum in broad daylight while she was pushing a pram with her two children inside' in Vienna
14/02/17
An Afghan immigrant has been arrested after an alleged sex attack on a young mother in broad daylight in Vienna while she was pushing a pram with her two children in.
Furious row breaks out in Calais as Catholic group sets up a 'mini' aid centre for UK-bound migrants and local council blocks it with a SKIP
14/02/17
The move follows the destruction of the Jungle refugee camp in Calais, when thousands of migrants were moved away and told to stop trying to get to Britain illegally
[WSJ] What’s striking about the French presidential election is the extent to which the two front-runners share a basic analysis of the choice facing the country. Marine Le Pen, the leader of the right-wing National Front, and Emmanuel Macron, the 39-year-old former economy minister who quit Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... ’s government to stand as an independent, are poles apart politically. But both agree that the defining issue is La Belle France’s membership of the eurozone.
Both point to the widening divergence between Germany and La Belle France’s economic performance during the past decade as evidence that the status quo isn’t sustainable. The National Front points to a recent International Monetary Fund study that suggested the euro is up to 15% undervalued in Germany and 6% overvalued in La Belle France as proof that La Belle France is at a competitive disadvantage. It argues that the only way La Belle France can remain a member of what one party official calls the "fixed eurozone exchange-rate regime" is to pursue an internal devaluation by cutting back on social protections and driving down wages. The alternative is to quit the eurozone.
Mr. Macron implicitly agrees. He wants La Belle France to stay in the euro and is campaigning for changes to the country’s public sector, welfare system and labor rules, which he says are needed to restore the country’s competitiveness. He advocates a more-flexible welfare system and labor market that protects individuals rather than jobs and allows employers to strike deals with workers at a company level rather than across sectors.
Ms. Le Pen, on the other hand, believes there is no appetite for cuts to welfare, which the National Front says provides an important economic as well as social safety net, helping to maintain household consumption. It argues that the only way to preserve the welfare system is to quit the eurozone and devalue the currency.
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[REUTERS] Campaigning for the Dutch election began on Wednesday with anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders frontrunner in a vote that will test the anti-establishment sentiment that swept Britannia out of the European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... and Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... into the U.S. presidency.
Wilders, a eurosceptic, anti-immigration fan of Trump, has dubbed the March 15 parliamentary election the start of a "Patriotic Spring" in Europe, where French and German voters go to the polls in May and September.
Wilders and his Party for Freedom has led in opinion polls for most of the past two years, but the fragmented political landscape means a coalition government of four or more parties is all but inevitable.
His main rival, Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the conservative VVD Party, is banking on a strengthening economic recovery to restore popularity lost during the austerity years of 2012-2014.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In an interview with Al Arabiya General Manager, Turki AlDakhil, that will be fully aired later this week, the Turkish President said that he does not consider the Muslim Brotherhood group to be a terrorist group, adding that Turkey would treat the group as a terrorist in case the Brotherhood carries out armed attacks.
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The only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people is now free, Canada's parole board said Wednesday.
Inderjit Singh Reyat had been ordered to live at a halfway house following his release from prison one year ago, after serving two decades behind bars. That condition has now been lifted and Reyat may return to a normal life, including 'living in a private residence,' parole board spokesman Patrick Storey told AFP in an email.
The Sikh immigrant from India was convicted of making bombs that were stuffed into luggage and planted on two planes leaving Vancouver, and of lying in court to cover for his co-accused.
One bomb tore apart Air India Flight 182 as it neared the coast of Ireland, killing all 331 people aboard, including 268 Canadian citizens, 27 Britons and 24 Indians. The incident was the largest mass murder in Canadian history.
The second exploded at Japan's Narita airport, killing two baggage handlers as they transferred cargo to another Air India plane.
The blasts followed a crackdown on Sikhs fighting for an independent homeland, and those behind it were allegedly seeking revenge for the storming of the Golden Temple in Amritsar by Indian troops.
Reyat was working as a mechanic in westernmost Canada and purchased the dynamite, batteries and detonators used to construct the bombs.
Two alleged co-conspirators were acquitted due to a lack of evidence and, according to prosecutors, because of Reyat's perjury.
Storey said Reyat's parole officer has assessed those with whom he will live 'to ensure they will not have a negative influence on him.' Conditions of his release from prison also still apply, including having no contact with the victims' families nor with extremists.
Reyat must also shun all political activities and take counseling for violent tendencies, a lack of empathy and exaggerated beliefs.
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"The court declared the murdered innocents 'better now'"
F*cking Canuck "justice"
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HEY!!!!! Why so harsh, people? He said he was sorry didn't he? No, wait. He didn't.
I'm sure the computer chip that was implanted in his buttocks will allow the Mounties to track him. Unless it was something else implanted in his buttocks during the 20 years in prison. No, let's not go there.
In any case, the whole episode, and I remember it well, just left me Sikh.
[DAWN] An official from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) met Afghan Deputy Head of Mission Syed Abdul Nasir Yousafi in Islamabad on Tuesday to address bully boy attacks in Pakistain by factions operating in Afghanistan, said a blurb from MoFA.
United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... and European Commission (UN&EC) Additional Secretary Tasnim Aslam raised the "grave concern [Pakistain has] about the continuing terrorist attacks on Pak soil by the terrorist outfit Jumaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) [operating] from its sanctuaries inside Afghanistan," the release read.
Aslam also informed Yousafi that Afghan authorities had been informed "earlier" about "actionable intelligence" where Pakistain pressed Afghanistan "to take urgent measures to eliminate the bully boyz and their sanctuaries, financiers and [controllers] operating from its territory," the statement read.
The additional secretary also shared an 'aide-memoire' with the Afghan deputy head of mission, which contained "details of the terrorist attacks and supporting information".
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] Pakistain has summoned a top Afghan diplomat over a deadly attack in Lahore city of Pakistain which left at least 13 people dead.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Pakistain in a statement said "Foreign Office calls in Afghan DHM, registers concern over terrorist attacks on Pakistain by Jumaat-ul-Ahrar from sanctuaries in Afghanistan."
The statement further added that Syed Abdul Nasir Yousafi was called-in to the Foreign Office, yesterday, by Additional Secretary.
"The Afghan DHM was conveyed the grave concern of Pakistain about the continuing terrorist attacks on Pak soil by the terrorist outfit, Jumaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) from its sanctuaries inside Afghanistan," the statement added.
According to Pakistain’s Foreign Ministry "Attention of the DHM was also drawn to the earlier actionable intelligence shared by our authorities with the Afghan side. Afghanistan was urged to take urgent measures to eliminate the bandidossnuffies and their sanctuaries, financiers and handlers operating from its territory."
It also added "An Aide-Memoire containing details of the terrorist attacks and supporting information was also shared with the Afghan Deputy Head of Mission."
According to the Pak security officials, the incident took place after a jacket wallah detonated his explosives among the protesters in the city.
The officials further added that several senior police officials were among those killed.
The suicide bomber targeted the gathering as a negotiation was underway between the police officials and the protesters who had organized a sit-in to protest against a new bill passed by the government.
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Pot decrying the color of the kettle
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Salahuddin (IraqiNews.com) Dozens of Kurdish families in the north of Salahuddin province have accused pro-government militias of forcing them out of home and persecuting the community, maintaining a Kurdish-Turkmen antipathy in the region.
Meeting with residents of the Tuz Khormato region, north of the province, the London-based, pan-Arab al-Quds al-Arabi newspaper quoted them decrying a surge in killings, kidnappings and vandalism targeting the community since al-Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Units) took over their regions north of the province.
“Sayyid al-Shohadaa Brigades, which operates under al-Hashd, are responsible for all abuses in the region,” the newspaper quoted one resident, Davud Cocnau, as saying, adding that he had to flee with his family from Teen district in Tuz Khormato after Kurds were increasingly being targeted by Turkmen fighters within the PMUs.
Another one, Safin Mazwi, said many neighborhoods in the precinct became no-go areas for Kurds after a surge of assassinations of that community, adding that security authorities failed to respond to repeated complaints.
The situation forced 2685 Kurds to migrate to Kurdistan region, according to Mazwi.
Sabah Bazini, a Kurdish migrant from Tuz Khormato, told the paper that the town’s biggest market had been closed to Kurds who abandoned it after 123 shops had been looted. He said 743 other shops are currently closed down after their Kurdish owners became incapable of doing their business or transporting merchandise because of lurking PMU fighters.
Tuz Khormato had witnessed several clashes between Kurdish Peshmerga (army) forces and PMUs that left several casualties. Sectarian tensions had been high between Sunni Kurds and mostly-Shia Turkmen in the region.
Since its engagement in the war against IS militants, Al-Hashd al-Shaabi, an alliance of Shia paramilitary troops fighting Islamic State extremists alongside the Iraqi government, has occasionally been accused by international rights groups, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, of committing war crimes and human rights abuses against Sunni residents of areas recaptured from IS. The force has persistently rebuffed the accusations, deeming the reports fabricated, and the Iraqi government has praised its operations on the humanitarian level.
Al-Hashd gained a government recognition as a national armed force under the army’s observation in November.
CIA Director Mike Pompeo held secret talks with Palestinian officials in the West Bank Tuesday evening, ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's first summit with President Trump, according to reports.
Palestinian sources told Haaretz that Pompeo and Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas discussed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the war in Syria.
They were the first top-level talks between a Trump administration official and the Palestinians.
"The Americans needed to understand that the collapse of the PA — in such a manner that there will be no way to implement the two-state solution, as quite a few elements in the Netanyahu government are striving for — will lead to the entry of extremist elements, perhaps associated with Iran," a Palestinian source told Haaretz.
The source added that the Palestinians received positive messages about the prospects of a two-state solution at the meeting.
The head of Palestinian intelligence, Majid Faraj, and senior negotiator Saeb Erekat were also in attendance. The meeting was held at the Palestinian government compound in Ramallah, the PA’s de facto capital in the West Bank, The Associated Press reported.
The meeting came a day before Netanyahu arrived in Washington for his first sit-down with Trump since the U.S. leader's election and amid growing anxiety over Trump's break with decades-old U.S. policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Trump on Wednesday said he could support either a one-state or two-state solution. Past administrations from both parties have backed a two-state solution, with an Israeli state and a Palestinian state.
Netanyahu during the presser also said Palestinians needed to recognize the state of Israel and the country's security needs. He said it is necessary for Israel to maintain security control over the area west of the Jordan River, which includes the West Bank, to prevent “another radical Islamic terrorist state in the Palestinian areas.”
Trump on the campaign trail and in office has promised better relations with Israel. Netanyahu publicly clashed with former President Barack Obama on a number of issues, including the peace process and the nuclear deal with Iran.
As a candidate, Trump also vowed to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, a change critics warned could inflame Palestinians and the Middle East. But since then, the administration has suggested any move could take time.
[Free Beacon] Senior Iranian officials are warning the Trump administration about disclosing secret deals related to the nuclear deal that have long been hidden from the public by the Obama administration, according to recent comments that prompted pushback from senior sources on Capitol Hill.
Iran's warning comes on the heels of a Washington Free Beacon report disclosing that former national security adviser Michael Flynn had been pushed out of office partly due to his intention to release these sensitive documents to the American public.
Leading lawmakers in Congress launched multiple investigations last year into the Obama administration's efforts to keep these documents secret and out of public view. Sources who spoke to the Free Beacon about the matter said that the Trump White House is working on ways to publicize this information despite warnings from Iran.
Secret side deals related to the nuclear agreement remain unclassified but have been stashed in a secure location on Capitol Hill, making it difficult for staffers and lawmakers to view them. Individuals seeking to view these documents must have security clearance and are barred from taking notes or speaking about what they see.
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OK. So let us say that President Trump decides to bring the secret deals to light. Will he be able to get access to these documents containing the secret deals? Or will they be so secret or so lost that DoS, CIA or other alphabet agency will deny these to the President? Are we going to see major league obstructionism? The skirmishers have already fired a few rounds. What's next?
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N matter what the secret stuff says, they'd want to impeach Trump for going against the wishes of the Obama and Hilary.
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[WashingtonTimes] Even if President Trump can’t convince the courts to approve his extreme vetting executive order, he may have another tool at his disposal that would allow him to strip visas from some of the seven countries he’s trying to target, crackdown supporters say.
A federal law says the government can stop issuing visas to countries that are deemed "uncooperative" because they refuse to take back their citizens when the U.S. tries to deport them. At least five of the seven countries Mr. Trump is targeting -- Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia and Sudan -- are already on that list, according to new data obtained by the Immigration Reform Law Institute.
All Mr. Trump would have to do is have his Homeland Security Department secretary issue an official notification about those countries, and the State Department would immediately halt visas, IRLI says.
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[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Saudi’s Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz, received the head of Ulemas' Council of Pakistan Hafiz Mohammed Tahir Al-Ashrafi on Tuesday..jpg)
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[WSJ] What’s striking about the French presidential election is the extent to which the two front-runners share a basic analysis of the choice facing the country. Marine Le Pen, the leader of the right-wing National Front, and Emmanuel Macron, the 39-year-old former economy minister who quit 
[REUTERS] Campaigning for the Dutch election began on Wednesday with anti-Islam leader Geert Wilders frontrunner in a vote that will test the anti-establishment sentiment that swept 
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] In an interview with Al Arabiya General Manager, Turki AlDakhil, that will be fully aired later this week, the Turkish President said that he does not consider the Muslim Brotherhood group to be a terrorist group, adding that Turkey would treat the group as a terrorist in case the Brotherhood carries out armed attacks.
The only person convicted in the 1985 Air India bombings that killed 331 people is now free, Canada's parole board said Wednesday.
[Free Beacon] Senior Iranian officials are warning the Trump administration about disclosing secret deals related to the nuclear deal that have long been hidden from the public by the Obama administration, according to recent comments that prompted pushback from senior sources on Capitol Hill.
