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PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE HAS ORDERED THE MILITARY TO PREPARE EQUIPMENT TO HELP EVACUATE FILIPINOS IN THE MIDDLE EAST IN CASE OPEN HOSTILITIES ERUPT.
OIL AND GOLD PRICES CONTINUED SURGING ON MONDAY AS ESCALATING TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST FANNED WORRIES ABOUT DISRUPTION TO GLOBAL OIL SUPPLIES, SENDING INVESTORS SCURRYING TO SAFER INVESTMENTS.
U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP AND HIS TOP AIDES SPENT THE WEEKEND ARGUING THAT THE KILLING OF IRANIAN GENERAL QASSEM SOLEIMANI WOULD DETER FUTURE ATTACKS AND HELP MAKE THE MIDDLE EAST SAFER.
TOKYO (REUTERS) - JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER SHINZO ABE REPEATED HIS PLANS TO DEPLOY THE SELF-DEFENSE FORCES TO THE MIDDLE EAST TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF ITS SHIPS, EVEN AS TENSIONS IN THE REGION ERUPT IN THE WAKE OF THE UNITED STATES’ KILLING OF ONE OF IRAN’S TOP MILITARY COMMANDERS.
THE NEW YEAR IS HERE, AND WITH THAT MEANS MORE INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL. BUT IF THE NEWS COMING FROM THE MIDDLE EAST IS CONFUSING AND ALARMING TO YOU, YOU AREN’T ALONE.
ISE, MIE PREF. – YUKIO EDANO, LEADER OF THE MAJOR OPPOSITION CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY OF JAPAN, HAS CALLED FOR AN ACTIVE DEBATE ON THE GOVERNMENT’S PLAN TO DISPATCH SELF-DEFENSE FORCES TROOPS TO THE MIDDLE EAST, AMID ESCALATING TENSIONS BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND IRAN.
SPECIAL OPERATIONS TROOPS ADD TO MIDDLE EAST BUILDUP
PARIS (REUTERS) - FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON AGREED WITH HIS IRAQI COUNTERPART ON SATURDAY TO MAKE EFFORTS TO DAMPEN TENSIONS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AFTER IRANIAN MILITARY COMMANDER QASSEM SOLEIMANI WAS KILLED IN A U.S. AIR STRIKE.
EMERGENCY MEETING. PRESIDENT RODRIGO DUTERTE MEETS WITH SECURITY OFFICIALS ON JANUARY 5, 2020, TO DISCUSS MEASURES TO PROTECT FILIPINOS IN THE MIDDLE EAST. MALACANANG PHOTO
IRAN COULD ATTACK U.S. SHIPS IN MIDDLE EAST MILITARY EXPERT WARNS
THE STATEMENT BY FOREIGN MINISTER WANG YI CAME AFTER HE SPOKE TO HIS RUSSIAN COUNTERPART SERGEY LAVROV LATE SATURDAY TO DISCUSS THE TENSION IN THE MIDDLE EAST, STATE-RUN XINHUA NEWS AGENCY REPORTED.
AN ELEMENT OF THE ARMY"S 75TH RANGER REGIMENT HAS BEEN ORDERED TO THE MIDDLE EAST, JOINING OTHER GROUND FORCES SURGING TO THE REGION AS TENSIONS ESCALATE WITH IRAN.
MANY READERS HAVE CONTACTED THE INDEPENDENT TO EXPRESS CONCERN ABOUT IMMINENT TRAVEL TO THE REGION. IT FOLLOWS THE ASSASSINATION IN BAGHDAD BY THE US OF THE IRANIAN MILITARY LEADER, QASSEM SOLEIMANI. THE KILLING HAS RAISED TENSIONS ACROSS THE MIDDLE EAST, AND IRAN HAS VOWED TO TAKE REVENGE. MANY TRAVELLERS MAY FEEL APPREHENSIVE.
(CNN)"JUST WHEN I THOUGHT I WAS OUT, THEY PULL ME BACK IN." MICHAEL CORLEONE"S LAMENT IN "THE GODFATHER PART III," ABOUT NEVER BEING ABLE TO ESCAPE HIS FAMILY BUSINESS OF CRIME, COULD WELL BE SAID ABOUT AMERICA"S ENTANGLEMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST.
IT WAS THE RACE"S FOCAL POINT FRIDAY, WHEN SANDERS" AND BIDEN"S DIVERGING APPROACHES TO FOREIGN POLICY AND MIDDLE EASTERN CONFLICT WERE ON DISPLAY IN SPEECHES FRIDAY AT TOWN HALLS IN EASTERN IOWA FOLLOWING SOLEIMANI"S KILLING.
USUALLY, WHEN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CHANGES HANDS, U.S. FOREIGN POLICY IN THE MIDDLE EAST REMAINS STEADY AND CONSISTENT. NO MORE. IF A DEMOCRAT REPLACES DONALD TRUMP IN THE OVAL OFFICE, MIDDLE EASTERN REGIMES EXPECT SHARPLY REVERSED POLICIES ON SUCH FRONT-LINE ISSUES AS THE NUCLEAR AGREEMENT WITH IRAN, THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN RELATIONSHIP, RELATIONS WITH TURKEY AND ALLIANCES IN THE PERSIAN GULF REGION. IF TRUMP REMAINS IN OFFICE, HE WILL BE UNLEASHED, CONVINCED BY HIS ELECTORAL SUCCESS THAT EVEN HIS MOST CONTROVERSIAL POLICIES WERE RIGHT.
WHAT SOLEIMANI"S ASSASSINATION MEANS FOR THE U.S. AND THE MIDDLE EAST NPR"S LEILA FADEL SPEAKS WITH FORMER AMBASSADOR ROBERT FORD ABOUT THE U.S." CURRENT SITUATION IN IRAQ IN THE WAKE OF PROTESTS AND THE U.S. ASSASSINATION OF A TOP-RANKING IRANIAN GENERAL.

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