Tens of Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza Strip Wednesday protested in front of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in solidarity with the people of eastern Aleppo who have faced government bombardment and massacres since forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad launched a devastating military offensive to[…]
Syria’s government resumed air strikes on remaining rebel-held territory in east Aleppo on Friday, a day after ally Moscow announced a “pause” in the assault, an activist group said. The apparent resumption came hours after Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Syria’s army was halting its three-week[…]
France has accused Syria and its allies of using political uncertainty in the US to launch “total war” against opposition-held areas in the country and called for new sanctions on Bashar al-Assad’s government for the use of chemical weapons. Making the accusations after a weekly cabinet session on Wednesday, Jean-Marc[…]
Congo’s prime minister and cabinet resigned on Monday as part of a deal that extends the tenure of President Joseph Kabila, who also defended the right of the Congolese people to change the constitution currently barring him from running again. Kabila is supposed to step down when his mandate runs[…]
The Syrian army captured the Dahiyet al-Assad district of western Aleppo on Saturday, reversing all the gains made by rebels two weeks into their counter-attack against government-held areas, a war monitor and rebel official said. State television said the army swept the suburban area for landmines after regaining full control.[…]
There is “no turning back” from a global accord to combat climate change, Morocco’s foreign minister said on the eve of UN talks in Marrakesh, amid fears that US presidential candidate Donald Trump will try to pull his country out of the pact if he wins the upcoming election. “There[…]
South Africa has formally requested to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC), according to a document seen by Reuters news agency on Thursday. The move comes as several African countries have expressed concern that The Hague-based court has tried mostly African leaders. Last year, South Africa said it planned[…]
An Israeli human rights group has vowed to continue its battle against Israel’s settlements built on occupied lands sought by the Palestinians, rejecting a harsh rebuke by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Israeli leader accused B’tselem of joining a “chorus of slander” against Israel, after the rights group urged the[…]
The United States, Britain and the UN peace envoy to Yemen on Sunday urged the warring parties in the country’s civil war to declare a ceasefire they said could start within days. The United Nations envoy, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, said: “We are here to call for an immediate cessation[…]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon visited victims of devastating Hurricane Matthew, saying the destruction wrought by the storm was “heartbreaking”. During the trip on Saturday, he renewed a pledge to help the nation cope with a deadly scourge of cholera that was introduced by UN peacekeepers after an earthquake in 2010.[…]
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