Lebanese army fires into the air near Tripoli: al-Jadeed TV, witness
The Lebanese army fired gunshots into the air during a protest blocking a road near the city of Tripoli on Saturday, a witness and Lebanese broadcaster al-Jadeed said.
Turkey will clear Syria border area of Kurdish fighters if Russia fails to act: Erdogan
(This October 26 story has been refiled to fix translation of word ‘clearing’ in quotation in paragraph 5)
Lebanon army tries to open roads as nationwide protests hit tenth day
Protesters trickled back on to the streets across Lebanon on Saturday, despite army efforts to unblock roads, with no end in sight to a crisis that has crippled the country for 10 days.
UK police ask Vietnamese community for help on 39 truck dead
British police want help from the Vietnamese community in Britain and abroad to identify the 39 people found dead in the back of a refrigerated truck on Wednesday, a senior officer said on Saturday.
Argentines, in shadow of crisis, weigh vote for change ahead of Sunday ballot
By Cassandra Garrison, Hugh Bronstein and Joan Manuel Santiago Lopez
Two killed, 26 wounded as protests flare again in Iraq
Two people were killed in southern Iraq and 26 were wounded in Baghdad on Saturday, police and hospital sources said, as demonstrators and security forces clashed in protests against Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi’s government.
Two protesters killed, 17 wounded in southern Iraqi city Nasiriya
At least two protesters were killed and 17 wounded in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriya on Saturday, police and medical sources said.
Violence during Ethiopian protests was ethnically tinged, say eyewitnesses
Much of the fighting seen during protests in Ethiopia this week was ethnically tinged, eyewitnesses said on Saturday, describing attacks by young men from the Oromo ethnic group against people from other ethnic groups.
Vietnam PM orders probe into human trafficking allegations in UK truck deaths
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc on Saturday ordered local authorities to establish whether Vietnamese citizens are among the 39 people found dead in the back of a truck near London on Oct.23.
Turkey will remove Kurdish YPG from Syrian border area if Russia won’t
Turkey will clear the Kurdish YPG militia from its border area with northeast Syria if Russia does not fulfill its obligations under a bilateral accord clinched this week, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday.
