Israel bombed the Gaza Strip by air and with tank fire on Sunday after Israeli police said a rocket fired from the Palestinian enclave landed in the Israeli city of Sderot. Police said the rocket hit “between two buildings on a road” in Sderot, which is less than four kilometres[…]
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and counterparts from eight African nations meet in Nairobi on Monday to discuss ways to prevent South Sudan from sliding back into civil war and advance a political transition in Somalia. Kerry arrived in the Kenyan capital late on Sunday – after a two-week[…]
Supporters of the US-based Islamist cleric Fethullah Gulen whom Ankara believes to have been behind the military coup attempt last month have already “infiltrated” India, the Turkish FM claimed, urging Indian authorities to shut down Gulenist organizations. Referring to the group led by Gulen as FETO (Gulenist Terror Organization, a[…]
More than 500 Syrian civilians have been killed in a single week, mostly in government and Russian air raids and shelling, across several cities in the war-torn country. Casualty figures released on Saturday by the Local Coordination Committees (LCC), a grassroots network of activists in Syria, recorded 508 civilians killed[…]
A blustery storm, a touch of melancholy and a sense of pride converged at the closing ceremony of the 2016 Rio Olympics as Brazil breathed a collective sigh of relief at having pulled off South America’s first Games. After a gruelling 17 days, Rio de Janeiro cast aside early struggles[…]
At least 50 people have been killed and 94 more wounded in an explosion at a wedding ceremony in Turkey’s southeastern province of Gaziantep, near the Syria border. The blast, which occurred at around 11pm local time on Saturday in the Akdere neighbourhood of Sahin Bey district, was a “terror[…]
Iraq on Sunday hanged 36 men convicted over the 2014 massacre by extremists and allied militants of hundreds of military recruits, officials said. They had been found guilty of involvement in the “Speicher” massacre, named after a base near Tikrit where up to 1,700 recruits were kidnapped before being executed.[…]
At least 10 people were killed when two suicide car bombers attacked the local government headquarters in Somalia’s Galkayo town in the semi-autonomous Puntland region on Sunday, police said, and the al Shabaab group claimed the attack. “We have confirmed 10 people dead including civilians and security forces,” said Ali[…]
The UN Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance and Development Aid in the occupied Palestinian territory Robert Piper said he was “deeply concerned” about the declining health of hunger striking Palestinian prisoners protesting their administrative detention and called on Israel to release or charge all detainees “without delay.” “I am deeply concerned about[…]
Former intelligence minister Ronnie Kasrils is challenging Kabby Maphatsoe to prove the allegation levelled against him and has taken to court to sue for R1m. “He said I had given instructions to the young woman (“Khwezi”) who alleged Jacob Zuma had raped her,” said Kasrils. “He also said I dismissed[…]
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