At least three Palestinians were injured with rubber-coated steel bullets, while several others suffered from severe tear-gas inhalation during clashes that erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces overnight between Tuesday and Wednesday in the northern occupied West bank city of Nablus. Palestinian security sources told Ma’an that hundreds of Israeli[…]
US President Donald Trump is planning to abandon the Iran nuclear deal shortly, according to US media reports. If he fails to certify the accord, Congress will decide whether to re-impose economic sanctions on Iran. Mr Trump has until 15 October to decide. Opposition to the deal was a major[…]
The US military has halted some exercises with its Gulf Arab allies over the ongoing diplomatic crisis targeting Qatar, trying to use its influence to end the months-long dispute, authorities told The Associated Press. While offering few details, the acknowledgement by the US military’s Central Command shows the concern it has over[…]
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman is in Moscow on his first official visit to Russia. The monarch arrived in Moscow on Wednesday for a three-day trip expected to focus on energy and the Syrian conflict. Saudi Arabia and Russia are heavily dependent on oil exports and the plunge of the price[…]
The girlfriend of a retiree who killed 58 people and then himself in a shooting rampage in Las Vegas arrived from the Philippines in Los Angeles, where FBI agents hoped to question her about the massacre, law enforcement officials said. Marilou Danley, who U.S. authorities have described as a “person[…]
The University of Nairobi has closed following a series of violent clashes between the administration, students and police. The top Kenyan university, with more than 84,000 people enrolled, announced that students had until 9am on Tuesday to leave their residence halls. This meant students had less than 12 hours to[…]
Police sought clues on Tuesday to explain why a retiree with a penchant for gambling but no criminal record set up a sniper’s nest in a high-rise Las Vegas hotel and poured gunfire onto a concert below, slaying dozens of people before killing himself. The Sunday night shooting spree from[…]
At least two suspected rebels have been killed and three soldiers wounded in Indian-controlled Kashmir after fighters stormed a paramilitary base, according to local officials. The attack began in the early hours of Tuesday when three fighters raided the highly-guarded Border Security Force (BSF) camp outside a regional airport in[…]
At least 20 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when a gunman opened fire on a country music concert in Las Vegas. Dozens of patrol vehicles descended on the famous Vegas Strip after reports of an “active shooter” near a country music festival late on Sunday. “We have[…]
Hamas freed five prisoners belonging to the rival Fatah party on Sunday and Egypt sent a delegation to the Gaza Strip to oversee the group’s planned handover of administrative control of the Palestinian enclave to a unity government. The West Bank-based Palestinian prime minister, Rami al-Hamdallah, and other officials of[…]
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