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• Factbox - EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier
• Who are the refugees and immigrants entering the US since the travel ban was lifted?
• Erdogan says Turkish army close to taking IS-held town
• White House official attacks court after legal setbacks on immigration
• 'Islamophobia' fuelling terrorism: UN chief
• U.N. chief affirms full support for Yemen peace envoy
• Inter-Shi'ite tension mounts in Baghdad after clashes
• UN chief affirms full support for Yemen peace envoy
• Factbox - EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier
• Dubai's Al Khaleej Sugar operating at full capacity
• Factbox: EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier

Factbox - EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier Posted: 12 Feb 2017 04:35 PM PST BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The career of EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier: 1951 - Born Jan. 9 in La Tronche, a suburb of the French Alpine city of Grenoble. Now married, with three children. 1972 - Graduates from Paris business school ESCP. The next year, at just 22, elected to local council of department of Savoie, east of Grenoble. He would lead it from 1982 to 1999. 1978 - Elected to parliament aged 27, representing Gaullist, centre-right Savoie district, including major ski resorts. ...

Who are the refugees and immigrants entering the US since the travel ban was lifted? Posted: 12 Feb 2017 01:22 PM PST The Washington Times reported on Thursday that since the Feb. 3 suspension of Mr. Trump's order by a federal judge, 77 percent of the 1,100 refugees who had entered the country had been from the seven countries targeted in the order, with nearly a third hailing from Syria alone. According to the US State Department, more than 70 percent of the roughly 1,400 refugees admitted to the US from Feb. 4 to Feb. 10 have indeed come from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Sudan, Libya, and Yemen – and those numbers do indeed suggest an effort by the State Department and refugee resettlement agencies to resettle as many people as possible amid a period of uncertainty in the days immediately following the suspension.

Erdogan says Turkish army close to taking IS-held town Posted: 12 Feb 2017 12:42 PM PST Turkish troops backed by Syrian rebel fighters have entered the centre of the Islamic State group bastion of Al-Bab and will soon capture it, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday. The town in Syria's Aleppo province is the last stronghold of the jihadist group in the region, and has also been targeted by Syrian government forces. The Syrian opposition, meanwhile, announced the formation of a delegation to attend a new round of UN-sponsored peace talks in Geneva on February 20.

White House official attacks court after legal setbacks on immigration Posted: 12 Feb 2017 12:40 PM PST By Doina Chiacu and Julia Harte WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A White House official on Sunday attacked a U.S. court ruling that blocked President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration as a "judicial usurpation of power" and said the administration was considering a range of options, including a new order. Sustained criticism of the judiciary from the White House comes amid concern among Democrats and legal scholars over Trump's view of the constitutional principle of judicial independence as the administration seeks to overcome legal setbacks to its travel ban issued on Jan. 27.

'Islamophobia' fuelling terrorism: UN chief Posted: 12 Feb 2017 09:31 AM PST Riyadh (AFP) - "Islamophobia" in parts of the world is fuelling terrorism, the head of the United Nations said on a visit to Saudi Arabia Sunday, as anti-immigrant sentiment rises in some countries. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made the comment to reporters after talks with Saudi King Salman, Crown Prince and Interior Minister Mohammed bin Nayef, and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. "One of the things that fuel terrorism is the expression in some parts of the world of Islamophobic feelings and Islamophobic policies and Islamophobic hate speeches," Guterres said at a joint news conference with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir.

U.N. chief affirms full support for Yemen peace envoy Posted: 12 Feb 2017 07:43 AM PST By Katie Paul RIYADH (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday the U.N. envoy to Yemen had his full support, days after Yemen's Houthi group asked him not to renew the diplomat's term due to what it said was bias against the Iranian-aligned movement. "Our envoy has my full support and I believe that he is doing an impartial work, that he is doing it in a very professional way and independently of what other people may think, he has my full support," said Guterres during a stop in Riyadh, part of a regional tour that also includes the United Arab Emirates. In a joint news conference with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir in Riyadh, Guterres appealed to the combatants in Yemen's almost two-year-old war not to exploit the delivery of humanitarian aid, adding any such action was to be condemned.

Inter-Shi'ite tension mounts in Baghdad after clashes Posted: 12 Feb 2017 06:44 AM PST By Huda Majeed and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Tension between Iraq's Shi'ite leaders mounted on Sunday as the toll from protests in central Baghdad on Saturday increased to six killed, five demonstrators loyal to the fiery cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and one policeman. At least 174 other protesters were injured in clashes that pitted police and Sadr's followers who had gathered to demand an overhaul of a commission that supervises elections, ahead of a provincial poll due in September. The clashes broke out as the protesters attempted to cross the bridge that links Tahrir Square where they had gathered and the heavily fortified Green Zone, which houses government buildings, embassies and international organizations.

UN chief affirms full support for Yemen peace envoy Posted: 12 Feb 2017 06:35 AM PST U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Sunday the U.N. envoy to Yemen had his full support, days after Yemen's Houthi group asked him not to renew the diplomat's term due to what it said was bias against the Iranian-aligned movement. In a joint news conference with Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir on a visit to Riyadh, Guterres appealed to the combatants in Yemen's almost two-year-old war not to exploit the delivery of humanitarian aid, adding any such action was to be condemned. Houthi leaders controlling Yemen's capital called on the world body on Friday not renew the term of U.N. envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, saying he had shown "lack of neutrality" and sympathy for a Saudi-led coalition that is fighting to reinstate Yemen's internationally-recognised government.

Factbox - EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier Posted: 12 Feb 2017 01:53 AM PST BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The career of EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier: 1951 - Born Jan. 9 in La Tronche, a suburb of the French Alpine city of Grenoble. Now married, with three children. 1972 - Graduates from Paris business school ESCP. The next year, at just 22, elected to local council of department of Savoie, east of Grenoble. He would lead it from 1982 to 1999. 1978 - Elected to parliament aged 27, representing Gaullist, centre-right Savoie district, including major ski resorts. ...

Dubai's Al Khaleej Sugar operating at full capacity Posted: 12 Feb 2017 01:35 AM PST By Maha El Dahan DUBAI (Reuters) - Dubai's Al Khaleej Sugar Refinery, the world's largest port-based refinery for the commodity, said on Sunday it was operating at full capacity and expected to remain so for the next month. Jamal al-Ghurair, managing director of the refinery, also told Reuters he was satisfied with the current levels of sugar white premiums, which have been averaging at around $90 a tonne. "I think it is a good price to sell ... they should remain the same in the second half of the year," he said in an interview on the sidelines of the Dubai Sugar Conference.

Factbox: EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier Posted: 12 Feb 2017 12:04 AM PST BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The career of EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier: 1951 - Born Jan. 9 in La Tronche, a suburb of the French Alpine city of Grenoble. Now married, with three children. 1972 - Graduates from Paris business school ESCP. The next year, at just 22, elected to local council of department of Savoie, east of Grenoble. He would lead it from 1982 to 1999. 1978 - Elected to parliament aged 27, representing Gaullist, center-right Savoie district, including major ski resorts. ...

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