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The biggest party in Tunisia's parliament on Monday rejected the idea of a government that excludes other parties, adding that it was ready to contest another election. The statement by the moderate Islamist Ennahda threatens to upend a second attempt to form a coalition government since elections in October, which fragmented the political establishment. "We reject the government coalition being confined to some parties," said Abd Karim Harouni a senior official of Ennahda, which has been part of recent unity coalitions that included most parties.

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:51:00 -0500

An Egyptian court sentenced 37 people on Monday to jail terms including life imprisonment for joining or supporting Islamic State's Sinai Province affiliate, judicial sources said. Militants loyal to Islamic State have been waging an insurgency in the north of the Sinai Peninsula and other parts of the country that has killed hundreds of soldiers, police and residents. A Cairo criminal court sentenced eight defendants to life terms and 29 to terms ranging from one to 15 years, after prosecutors accused them of planning attacks, promoting the group's ideology in prisons and financing its cells, the judicial sources said.

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:50:07 -0500

Several people, including young children, were shot and killed while sitting in their own home early Sunday morning during a home invasion that authorities are now suspecting was a targeted attack. The incident was reported at a home on Sunday in Newburgh County, New York, at around 8 a.m. when witnesses nearby heard gunshots. “We’ve got several witnesses that we have spoken to,” said Chief Bruce Campbell of the Newburgh Police Department while addressing the media on Sunday.

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:50:00 -0500

Cedric Villani, out campaigning to be the next mayor of Paris, was dressed in his trademark three-piece suit with pocket watch and spider brooch under his overcoat. "Don't go changing," a passerby said as Villani chatted to shoppers and stallholders in the Marche Monge, an open-air market in Paris's Latin quarter. Opinion polls show Villani, 46, a mathematician who turned politician three years ago, is a long shot to win the election in March.

Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:41:03 -0500

“If John Bolton said this, it was only to sell a book,” the president fumed on Twitter.

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