[AnNahar] Yemen's Houthis say they have released two sons of slain ex-president Ali Abdallah Saleh, 10 months after they were captured following the killing of their father.
Salah and Medyen Saleh were pardoned by Mehdi Mushat, head of the rebels' supreme political council, and subsequently released, the rebel-run Saba news agency said.
It did not give further details.
Multiple political sources close to the late president said neighboring Oman, which has remained neutral in the Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... war, played a major role in brokering their release, which came on condition the two stepped down from Yemeni politics.
former President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... 's party, the General People's Congress, has lost its power in the war between the Iran-backed Huthis and Saudi-led pro-government alliance, but continues to be a useful ally for Yemeni politicians seeking broader appeal.
A Saudi-led military coalition backing Yemen's government said Wednesday that Saleh's released sons had been flown out of Sanaa on a chartered U.N. flight to Jordan. That was confirmed by a source at Sanaa international airport.
The coalition accused the rebels of stalling for five days "by refusing to allow the U.N. plane to land at Sanaa international airport", in a statement published by Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's state news agency.
Sanaa international airport, controlled by the rebels, has been shut down for years. The Saudi-led coalition controls Yemen's airspace.
A Jordanian official confirmed Saleh's two sons had arrived at Amman's Queen Alia International Airport from Sanaa, where their plane was due to stay for one hour.
"It will go towards a third country," the official said in a statement, without detailing the plane's final destination. "The two sons will not enter Amman."
The Huthis had been allied with Saleh for three years when their alliance collapsed into mutual accusations of treason, leading to armed festivities in the capital and ultimately the ex-president's death at the hands of the rebels in December 2017.
Saleh had made overtures to Saudi Arabia in the weeks leading to his death.
The rebels are believed to still be holding relatives of Ali Abdallah Saleh, including one of his nephews.
Nearly 10,000 people have been killed since the Saudi-led alliance intervened in the Yemen war in 2015, according to the World Health Organization.
The actual corpse count is likely much higher, according to rights groups.
[AnNahar] Madrid and Rabat are in talks to repatriate thousands of Moroccan minors who arrived in Spain alone without their parents, a Spanish interior ministry front man said Friday.
The Spanish government estimates that about 10,000 minor migrants colonists are living in Spain without their families -- 70 percent of them from Morocco.
The issue was discussed during a bilateral meeting held in Essaouira on Morocco's Atlantic coast on September 14, a front man for Spain's interior ministry said.
Spain's secretary of state for migration, Consuelo Rumi, "perceived a willingness" on the part of Morocco to repatriate unaccompanied minors living in Spain during the talks, the front man told AFP.
"There is no concrete plan yet, this is part of negotiations, of a diplomatic process," he added.
The roughly 10,000 minor migrants colonists in Spain are under the protection of the regions or cities where they arrive, mainly the southern region of Andalusia and the overseas territories of Ceuta and Melilla in northern Africa.
Spain's central government wants to incentivise other regions to take charge of some of them. Last month it unblocked 40 million euros ($46.5 million) for regions willing to welcome them.
There has been criticism of the way Spain welcomes unaccompanied foreign minors, particularly in Melilla, where many sleep in the streets or in caves waiting to smuggle themselves onto a boat to mainland Europe.
In Ceuta, local government front man Jacob Hachuel recently said the minors should be returned to Morocco, saying "they are better off in their family entourage."
Spain has become the biggest port of entry for clandestine migration into Europe ...also known as Moslem Lebensraum... after Italia largely closed its borders under pressure from far-right Interior Minister Matteo Salvini.
A total of 41,594 irregular migrants colonists entered Spain between January 1 and September 30, according to the interior ministry.
The vast majority, more than 36,000, arrived by sea, three times the amount which arrived by sea during the same time last year. Just under 5,000 crossed the land border with Ceuta and Melilla.
[Rudaw] With less than a month until the United States targets Iran with energy sanctions, several oil exporters including The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... are increasing outputs to the global market to counter US control of global crude prices.
"It now appears that only China and Turkey may be willing to risk US retaliation by transacting with Iran," Jefferies Financial Group stated. Riyadh has also indicated it will buck OPEC and unilaterally increase its exports if market conditions are right.
The New York-based subsidiary provides investment services to global investors.
The administration of US President 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... will implement sanctions targeting Iranian oil and gas exports on November 4.
The onset of the sanctions is two-fold: targeting the Iranian regime and more US influence on the market price of oil.
"Brent front-month prices are up 6 percent over the last week as it becomes increasingly apparent that Iranian exports could fall below 1 million bpd in November," added Jefferies.
Under President Donald Trump the United States, which sits on vast oil reserves, wants Iran's oil exports cut to zero. The result would give other countries a larger say in oil prices through export rates, thus putting Washington in dilemma to increase its outputs or pressure allies and partners to increase theirs.
Global demand for oil continually has increased amid plummeting prices through the ISIS conflict when the myrmidon group took control of swathes of oil-rich territory in Iraq and Syria.
Brent crude sold for $35 per barrel at the height of the ISIS in early 2016. As of Friday, it traded around $85 per barrel.
The economies Iraq and the Kurdistan Region are heavily dependent on oil revenues and both the federal and regional governments have worked with officials in Washington to prevent violating the upcoming sanctions.
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That’s carefully nonspecific: do they mean a hijab showing the face, hijab plus niqab showing only the eyes, or the lovely blue Afghan burqa, where even the eyes are coveed with a woven screen?
[AnNahar] A judge cannot refuse to take testimony from a woman because she is wearing an Islamic veil, a court has ruled.
A citizen may wear any religious attire in a courtroom so long as their "religious beliefs are sincere" and they do not "conflict with another person's constitutional rights," the Quebec Court of Appeal ruled unanimously.
Montrealer Rania El-Alloul, a Moslem, was expelled from a courtroom in 2015 for wearing a hijab.
Judge Eliana Marengo of the Court of Quebec had cited a court ruling that every person must be "appropriately dressed" and compared El-Alloul's headscarf "to a hat or sunglasses."
But Marengo did not take into account the right of El-Alloul "to religious expression," the three appeals judges ruled.
[DAWN] Perpetual arrest warrants were issued on Friday for former envoy to the United States Hussain Haqqani, to bring him back to the country, based on the findings of a Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) report, DawnNewsTV reported.
The FIA had started the paperwork but haven't done much else against Haqqani in March for committing "criminal breach of trust, misuse of authority and embezzlement of funds".
The former US envoy is the principal accused in the Memogate scandal.
A hearing in the matter was held on Friday which was presided by special judge central, Irum Niazi.
According to the FIA report, Haqqani was also involved in the misappropriation of embassy funds to the tune of $2 million.
The report observes that the former envoy has purposely gone into hiding and mentions that a notification of summons had already been pasted outside his residence in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... An FIA official had earlier said that Haqqani’s wife was an American national, he might also be holding American nationality which may create a hurdle for the Pak authorities to bring him back.
In March, the official had said that according to the standard operating procedure, the FIA needed an arrest warrant issued by the court and other relevant documents regarding the case to get red warrants from Interpol.
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[DAWN] Former Punjab chief minister Shahbaz Sharif was on Friday arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) at its Lahore office in connection with the Rs14 billion Ashiana-i-Iqbal Housing Scheme case, the bureau said in a statement.
Shahbaz, the Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly, has been accused of corruption in the Ashiana Housing scheme case. He will be produced before an accountability court for remand tomorrow.
He will be kept in a highly-secured lock-up inside the NAB Lahore office until his appearance in court.
The PML-N president will be presented before Administrative Judge Syed Najmul Hassan amidst tight security. NAB will request the court for a 14-day physical remand of Shahbaz, NAB prosecutor Waris Ali Janjua told DawnNewsTV.
Lawyer Amjad Pervez will represent Shahbaz before the court.
Shahbaz was detained by NAB officials after he appeared before the bureau in the Saaf Pani Company scam case at around 2:55pm. The news of his arrest emerged around 3:35pm after his car was sent away. His private staff who accompanied him as security were also sent away.
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Jerusalem's mayor Nir Barkat said Thursday he plans to remove a UN agency for Palestinian refugees from the city, accusing the body of operating illegally and promoting incitement against Israel.
Barkat said schools, clinics and sports centers, among other services operated by UNRWA in east Jerusalem, will be transferred to Israeli authorities. The municipality did not provide an exact timeline but it said schools serving 1,800 students would be closed by the end of the current school year.
[IsraelTimes] ’If tomorrow I organize an attack, I’ll be in the main headlines of all the newspapers,’ Yahya Sinwar says, it’s the only way to send messages to Israel.
The leader of Hamas, one of the armed feet of the Moslem Brüderbung millipede, in the Gazoo Strip defended its use of suicide kabooms, incendiary airborne balloons and other violent tactics to target Israel over the years, while asserting it is interested in peace.
In a rare interview with the Israeli paper Yedioth Ahronoth, published Friday, Yahya Sinwar also said conditions during his time in Israeli prison were better than conditions in Gazoo and that though they were once famous for their intellectual feats, Jews are now known for "executions without trial."
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What a difference an election makes: saving billions in the US federal budget by doing good, as laid out in yesterday’s antiterrorism strategy.
[AnNahar] The U.S. embassy in Beirut has reportedly "intensified threats to cut any US or international assistance for Lebanese ministries allocated for Hizbullah ...Party of God, a Leb militia inspired, founded, funded and directed by Iran. Hizbullah refers to itself as The Resistance and purports to defend Leb against Israel, with whom it has started and lost one disastrous war to date, though it did claim victory... party" in a bid to pressure officials tasked with forming the government, al-Akhbar daily reported on Friday.
Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too. affimed in a televised interview on Thursday that he "does not mind" allocating the health portfolio in the new government for Hizbullah, noting that the international assistance approved earlier for that ministry "could stop."
"We don’t mind that Hizbullah gets the Ministry of Health. But let’s be frank. If Hizbullah gets any ministry pledged with loans from the World or any international community, there is a great possibility that these loans come to a halt. We have to be realistic here."
The latest batch of US sanctions on Hizbullah was against Lebanese businessman and seven companies of his allegedly over funding the party.
The US Treasury Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on Mohammed Abdullah al-Amin and seven companies he owns allegedly for providing financial and technological support for Hizbullah.
[AnNahar] The US Treasury Department on Thursday imposed sanctions on Mohammed Abdullah al-Amin and seven companies he owns allegedly for providing financial and technological support for Hizbullah.
The Treasury has imposed sanctions on companies owned by al-Amin which include Leb-based company Sierra Gas S.A.L. Offshore, Lama Foods S.A.R.L, Lama Foods International Offshore S.A.L, Impulse S.A.R.L, Impulse International S.A.L. Offshore, M.Marine S.A.L. Offshore and Thaingui SAL Offshore.
The Treasury accused al-Amin of concealing money for Adham Tabaja, an alleged Hizbullah financier who has been under sanctions since 2015.
Treasury officials said that al-Amin has been "listed on the international terrorist list."
"Hizbullah is an Iranian-proxy, and this Administration is focused on exposing and disrupting its terrorist funding networks," Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Sigal Mandelker said in a statement.
"Our action should serve as a warning that we will impose sanctions on anyone engaging in business relationships with Amin or other Hizbullah support networks," he said.
[Rudaw] US prosecutors in Guantanamo seek life imprisonment for Nashwan al-Tamir, a member of al-Qaeda identified as a Kurd and accused of plotting to attack coalition forces and civilians in Afghanistan. al-Tamir denies the charges and says he is not a Kurd.
Al-Tamir was unable to attend his hearing on September 28 for health reasons. Prior to his arrest he had degenerative disk disease and has undergone five back surgeries in prison. He is one of 40 "high value" detainees at Guantanamo.
Lt. Col. Michael Libretto, the judge, proceeded with the hearing where both the prosecution and the defense teams presented their arguments on the defendant’s refusal to attend the hearing. Prosecution argued the court should not be held "hostage" by al-Tamir, while his defense argued that traveling to and sitting at court for hours caused him pain and therefore knowingly subjecting him to such conditions would amount to "torture".
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
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...also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
[Rudaw] With less than a month until the United States targets Iran with energy sanctions, several oil exporters including 
Second son of Rafik Hariri, the Leb PM who was assassinated in 2005. He has was prime minister in his own right from 2009 through early 2011. He was born in Riyadh to an Iraqi mother and graduated from Georgetown University. He managed his father's business interests in Riyadh until his father's assassination. When his father died he inherited a fortune of some $4.1 billion, which won't do him much good if Hizbullah has him bumped off, too.
Hizbullah.
