Новости за 22.11.2016

BEIRUT/GENEVA — The Syrian army on Tuesday said that rebels in eastern Aleppo were hoarding warehouses full of food and that they should clear land mines from humanitarian corridors, statements that rebels dismissed as propaganda.

TEHRAN — More than 1,000 combatants sent from Iran to fight in support of President Bashar Assad in Syria have been killed in the conflict, the head of Iran's veterans' affairs office said on Tuesday.

KOKJALI, Iraq — Iraqi military medics rushed a man whose mouth had been blown apart by mortar shrapnel into their temporary field clinic on the eastern edges of Mosul.

CAIRO — An Egyptian appeals court Tuesday quashed one of two life sentences handed down to Mohamed Morsi since his 2013 overthrow, in the Islamist ex-president's second appeals victory in a week.

DUBAI — A UN peace plan for Yemen seeks to deprive the country's armed Houthi movement of its missile arsenal which Yemeni security sources say includes scores and maybe even hundreds of Soviet-era ballistic missiles pointed at their foes in Saudi Arabia.

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's surprise victory in the US presidential election has set off a round of resume-polishing across Washington, as the nation's federal civil servants prepare for a leader who has promised to freeze hiring and reverse many of the policies they have spent the past eight years putting in place.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A deal to buy three German-made submarines has come under public scrutiny in Israel after Israeli media discovered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's personal lawyer represents the local agent of the German conglomerate set to build the vessels.

BAGHDAD — Iraq's oil minister Jabar Ali Al Luaibi will make suggestions at a meeting of Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil ministers at the end of the month to implement an agreement to restrain crude supply in order to push up prices, according to a statement from his ministry on Monday.

AMMAN — The Jordan Press Association's (JPA) council on Monday expressed its rejection of all measures that restrict the work of journalists and affect their rights that are guaranteed under the Constitution and by law.

AMMAN — Jordan has suspended the recruitment of domestic helpers from Ghana for public safety reasons after some of the workers tested positive for HIV/AIDS, the Health Ministry said Monday.

AMMAN — The Cassation Court has upheld an August State Security Court (SSC) ruling, sentencing a man to death for killing five intelligence personnel in June in the terrorist attack on the Ain Al Basha office of the General Intelligence Department, a senior judicial source said Monday.

MOSUL — Iraqi troops fighting Daesh militants in the eastern outskirts of Mosul regrouped on Monday in neighbourhoods they recently retook from the extremist group, conducting house-to-house searches and looking for would-be suicide car bombs, a top Iraqi commander said.

BEIRUT — Lebanon's Prime Minister-designate Saad Al Hariri said on Monday his efforts to form a new government faced "stumbling blocks", testing hopes he could quickly steer the country out of its political crisis.