Middle East

Morning News Brief: Opioid Crisis, Netanyahu Faces Corruption Probe

8:27am August 08, 2017

President Trump will get a briefing on the opioid epidemic. The chief of staff for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be a witness for the state in a corruption inquiry into Netanyahu.

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War Crimes Expert Carla Del Ponte Resigns From U.N.'s Syria Inquiry

8:27am August 08, 2017

David Greene talks to former war crimes prosecutor Carla Del Ponte, who has announced she is quitting a U.N. commission investigating human rights abuses in Syria because it "does absolutely nothing."

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Does Israeli Corruption Probe Of Netanyahu Risk His Grip On Power?

8:27am August 08, 2017

by Daniel Estrin

Israeli police have been investigating possible corruption by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Now, his former chief of staff has struck a deal with authorities to become a witness for the state.

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Syrian Refugee And German Scientist Make An Unlikely Team

4:40pm August 07, 2017

In Leipzig, Germany, two scientists from very different backgrounds are working on a unique research project.

Carla Del Ponte, a former United Nations prosecutor and member of a U.N.-mandated commission of inquiry on the Syria conflict, at a 2013 press conference in Geneva.

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'I Give Up': Top War Crimes Expert Resigns From U.N.'s Syria Inquiry

3:59pm August 07, 2017

by Merrit Kennedy

"The states in the Security Council don't want justice," Carla Del Ponte told the Swiss publication Blick. "I can't any longer be part of this commission which simply doesn't do anything."

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Democracy Advocate Executed In Syria

8:11am August 05, 2017

by Scott Simon

It was reported this week that one of Syria's leading activists for democracy and free speech, Bassel Khartabil Sadafi, was executed by the Syrian government almost two years ago.

Fire damage is shown on the Torch Tower at Marina district in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Friday.

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Multistory Fire In Dubai's Torch Tower Extinguished Without Injuries

7:46am August 04, 2017

by Scott Neuman

It's the second time in two years that the 1,100-foot structure — one of the world's tallest residential skyscrapers — experienced a major fire.

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Refugees Are Being Returned To Rebel-Held Province In Syria From Lebanon

9:20am August 03, 2017

by Ruth Sherlock

Several thousand refugees displaced by Syria's civil war are moving back to their homeland from Lebanon. A bus convoy took the refugees to Idlib, a rebel-held province far in the north of Syria.

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Examining Jared Kushner's Chances At Achieving A Mideast Peace Solution

7:00am August 03, 2017

Ailsa Chang talks to ex-State Department negotiator Aaron David Miller, who says a leaked tape indicates the president's son-in-law may have no strategy for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Morning News Brief: Trump Backs Merit-Based Immigration System

5:14am August 03, 2017

The president says the system is so unfair that he wants to cut legal immigration in half over the next decade. In West Virginia, he'll point to the bill as way he's made good on a campaign promise.