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Mikati: Return of Displaced Citizens to Southern Villages Demonstrates Steadfastness of the Lebanese
No Hezbollah Figure Targeted in Beirut Strike: Lawmaker
Israeli Brutality Hits Record: Massive Strike on Residential Area in Lebanese Capital Beirut
It’s Not Beirut, It’s Tel Aviv
Lebanon Stands Firm against Israeli Conditions in Under-Fire Ceasefire Negotiations
Islamic Resistance targets, for the third time, an IOF gathering south of Khiam town with a missile barrage: statement
Berri to Netanyahu: Pressure-for-Surrender Policy Doesn’t Work
Islamic Resistance targeted a gathering of Israeli occupation forces in Maroun Al-Ras town with a barrage of Nasr-1 missiles: statement
Israeli Media Discloses Bravery of Hezbollah: 3 Fighters Confronted Entire Israeli Force in Aitaroun
Dutch Youth Take Revenge on Israeli Hooligans Who Chanted Anti-Palestine Genocidal Slogans

Americas

Netanyahu’s Wall Tweet Angers Mexico’s Jewish Community

Mexico’s small Jewish community condemned the Israeli prime minister’s support for US President Donald Trump’s border wall as disappointing and shameful. The Mexican government demanded an apology from Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, but the Israeli leader insisted that he was not referring to Mexico in his weekend message on Twitter. ...

January 31, 2017

Europe

Lavrov: Iran Russia’s Kind Neighbor, Old Partner

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov praised Iran as a kind neighbor and an old partner for the Russian Federation. “We admire the constructive relations between Iran and Russia, which is based on the equal rights of nation’s principle, mutual respect, friendship and trust,” the top Russian diplomat said in a message ...

January 31, 2017

Americas

Trump Fires Chief US Lawyer for Defying Migrant Ban

US President Donald Trump on Monday fired the acting attorney general, a holdover from the Obama administration, after she ordered Justice Department attorneys not to defend his controversial immigration orders. In a sharply worded statement, the White House called Sally Yates “weak on borders and very weak on illegal immigration” ...

January 31, 2017

Americas

Six people have been killed and eight injured at a mosque in Quebec City, police have said, in a shooting Canada’s prime minister denounced as a “terrorist attack”.
The shooting was carried out by three people at the Quebec City Islamic cultural center, witnesses said, and happened during evening prayers on Sunday. Police received the first calls just before 8pm.
Two arrests have been made, a police spokesman said. Local newspaper Le Soleil said police accepted a third suspect could still be on the run, though spokeswoman Chistine Coulombe later said: “Nothing right now makes us believe that there would be other suspects related to this event.”
One of the suspects was carrying an AK-47 assault rifle and one was aged 27, Le Soleil reported.
Trudeau spoke of his anger after hearing the news: “We condemn this terrorist attack on Muslims in a center of worship and refuge.
“While authorities are still investigating and details continue to be confirmed, it is heart-wrenching to see such senseless violence. Diversity is our strength, and religious tolerance is a value that we, as Canadians, hold dear.”
At a media conference, police said the victims were aged between 35 and 70.
At the time of the attack, more than 50 people were thought to be in the two-storey building, also called the Grande Mosque de Quebec, which is equipped with several CCTV cameras.
The mosque’s Imam, Mohamed Yangui – who was not inside the mosque when the shooting occurred – said he got frantic calls from people at evening prayers. He said the injured were taken to different hospitals across Quebec City. “Why is this happening here? This is barbaric,” he said.
The city’s police said the site had been secured and all occupants evacuated. A large security cordon has been set up around the site. Witnesses reported seeing heavily armed police entering the mosque after the shooting.
The premier of Québec, Philippe Couillard, called the killings a “terrorist act” and said the government stood in solidarity with the city’s Muslim population. he tweeted: “#Quebec rejects categorically this barbaric violence. All our solidarity to the families of the victims, the injured and their families.”
“Quebec is mourning,” the mayor of Quebec, Regis Labeaume, said, looking shaken. “I want to express my revolt to this villainous crime.”
Canada’s publics safety minister, Ralph Goodale, said he was “deeply saddened” by the deaths.
Local politician Manon Masse said: “We know little at the moment, but one or two people have assumed the right to kill our fellow Muslim Québec citizens. When intolerance goes from debate to murder, solidarity is essential.”

Quebec Mosque Shooting: Suspect Called Police to Surrender

A suspect in Sunday’s mosque shooting in Quebec City that left six people dead has called police “to talk about his surrender,” a senior police official said Monday. Quebec police inspector Denis Turcottee said the young man called the emergency services line 15 minutes after the shooting Sunday night to ...

January 30, 2017

Europe

Russian Tu-22M3 Bombers Destroy ISIL Command Posts, Arms Depots in Syria’s Deir Ezzor

Six Russian Tu-22M3 bombers carried out on Monday airstrikes against new ISIL targets in Syria’s Deir Ezzor province destroying two command posts, arms depots, a large number of military equipment and terrorists, the Russian Defense Ministry said. “On January 30, 2017, six strategic Tu-22M3 bombers took off in Russia, flew ...

January 30, 2017

Europe

Lavrov: Russia Interested in Settling Conflicts in Africa

Russia is interested in providing its assistance in resolution of crises in Africa as well as in further development of the mutually beneficial cooperation with Eritrea, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday. “Russia is interested in rendering assistance in solving problems in Africa and settling conflicts on the continent. ...

January 30, 2017

Int'l Organizations

Trump Travel Ban Illegal, Mean-spirited: UN Rights Chief

US President Donald Trump’s travel ban on citizens from mainly Muslim countries is illegal and “mean-spirited”, the United Nations human rights chief Zeid bin Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein said Monday. Zeid, who rarely communicates on Twitter, said in a tweet that “discrimination on nationality alone is forbidden under human rights law”, ...

January 30, 2017

Int'l Organizations

UN Chief Slams Border Closures in ‘Developed Countries’

UN chief Antonio Guterres criticized Monday the closure of borders “even in the most developed countries in the world”, after US President Donald Trump slapped a ban on travelers from seven Muslim countries. The new UN secretary general was speaking at the opening of an African Union summit in Addis ...

January 30, 2017

African countries

Turkey Reopens Libya Embassy after Security Shutdown

Turkey reopened its embassy in Libya’s capital Tripoli on Monday after a closure of almost three years due to the security situation in the country, the foreign ministry said. The embassy has been closed since July 2014 but preparations to reopen the mission had been supervised in recent months by ...

January 30, 2017

Europe

One Million Sign Petition to Cancel Trump’s UK State Visit

A petition demanding Britain cancel a planned state visit by US President Donald Trump passed one million signatures on Monday, following outrage over his travel ban on mainly Muslim countries. “Donald Trump should be allowed to enter the UK in his capacity as head of the US government, but he ...

January 30, 2017