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AINATA, LEBANON (AFP) – Braving the bitter cold, Lebanese villagers have been patrolling a mountainside in the country’s north, trying to protect trees from loggers who roll in under the cover of darkness. Near his village of Ainata, “nearly 150 centuries-old oak trees have been felled” in the past year, said Ghandi Rahme, pointing at […]
One senior police officer was killed on Thursday in clashes with demonstrators in the southern Jordanian city of Maan during protests over high fuel prices that spread to several cities across the kingdom, police and witnesses said.
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Witnesses said dozens of youths also staged a protest in the Tafiyla neighbourhood of the capital. Tensions have been mounting in Maan and several cities in southern Jordan after days of sporadic strikes by lorry drivers in protest at high fuel prices.