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Israeli security Cabinet meets to review policy at shrine
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's security Cabinet met Sunday to review a decision to install metal detectors at a contested Jerusalem holy site, following a week of escalating tensions with the Muslim world, mass prayer protests and Israeli-Palestinian violence.The ministers met amid mounting controversy at home, with some critics saying the government had acted without sufficiently considering the repercussions of introducing new security measures at the Holy Land's most sensitive shrine and the epicenter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
In a possible spillover of... Read More
East Timor's main parties able to form gov't but lose ground
DILI, East Timor (AP) — East Timor's two main political parties won enough votes in a weekend parliamentary election to form another national unity government but lost ground to opposition forces in a sign of frustration with slow economic progress.With all votes counted on Monday, the National Congress for Timorese Reconstruction party of independence hero Xanana Gusmao, or CNRT, had won 29.5 percent, down from 36.7 percent in 2012, when it was the top-polling party. Fretilin, or Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, captured 29.7 percent of the vote.
South Sudan sexual violence on 'massive scale,' report says
WAU, South Sudan (AP) — It's been five months since the shy, frail 13-year-old was snatched from his bed, drugged and raped in the middle of the night. The boy hasn't been able to say much since."I don't remember a lot," Batista says, darting his eyes toward the dirt floor as he sits in a makeshift clinic in one of South Sudan's displaced people's camps in the town of Wau. The Associated Press is using only the boy's first name to protect his identity.
Four years into South Sudan's devastating civil war, the world's youngest nation is reeling from sexual violence... Read More
2 Jordanians killed, 1 Israeli wounded at Israeli embassy
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Two Jordanians were killed and an Israeli was wounded by gunfire Sunday in a residential building in the heavily fortified Israeli embassy compound in Jordan's capital, the kingdom's Public Security Directorate said.Before the shooting, Jordanians had entered the apartment building for carpentry work, the statement said.
It did not say what triggered the shooting.
Three people were initially wounded in the incident, the security agency said. Two Jordanians later died, according to the agency and the news site Hala Akhbar, linked to... Read More
The Latest: Turkey's president talks Qatar in Saudi, Kuwait
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The Latest on the crisis diplomatic crisis between Qatar and four Arab countries (all times local):9:50 p.m.
Turkey's president has met with the ruler of Kuwait to discuss ways to end the diplomatic crisis between Qatar and four of its Arab neighbors.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan traveled Sunday evening to Kuwait for talks with the country's emir, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Sabah, who has been mediating the dispute.
He earlier held talks with the king of neighboring Saudi Arabia. He is due to travel to Qatar on... Read More
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