sraeli forces shot and killed two young Palestinians — one 17-year-old and one 20-year-old — and injured at least two others after a violent military raid into Jenin refugee camp in the northern occupied West Bank erupted into clashes early Wednesday morning. An Israeli army spokesperson said that during an[…]
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has arrived in Saudi Arabia to hold talks with King Salman, before meeting with his counterparts from the kingdom and the other three Arab states that have imposed a blockade on Qatar. US and Qatar sign deal to combat ‘terrorism financing’ The visit to[…]
Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has formally declared victory over the Islamic State of the Iraq and Levant (ISIL) in Mosul. “I announce from here the end and the failure and the collapse of the terrorist state of falsehood and terrorism which the terrorist Daesh announced from Mosul,” Abadi said[…]
A U.S. military plane crashed in rural Mississippi on Monday evening killing at least 16 people, a regional emergency management official said. No official details were immediately available on the circumstances of the crash in northern Mississippi’s LeFlore County, about 100 miles (160 km) north of Jackson, the state capital.[…]
The president of Democratic Republic of Congo’s electoral commission said on Sunday that a vote to replace President Joseph Kabila will probably not be possible this year, violating a deal that let Kabila stay on past the end of his mandate. Kabila’s refusal to step down at the end of[…]
US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is expected to arrive in Kuwait on Monday to help seek a resolution to the crisis between Qatar and four Arab states. Tillerson will “meet with senior Kuwait officials to discuss the ongoing efforts to resolve the Gulf dispute”, the state department said in[…]
The United Nations’ cultural arm declared the Old City of Hebron a protected heritage site in a secret ballot, an issue that has triggered a new Israeli-Palestinian spat at the international body. UNESCO voted 12 to three – with six abstentions – to give heritage status to Hebron in the Israeli-occupied[…]
At least 28 inmates were killed in a brutal prison fight on Thursday in the Mexican Pacific resort of Acapulco, in one of the worst outbreaks of violence in the country’s troubled penal system in recent years. Acapulco is the biggest city in Guerrero, one of Mexico’s most lawless states[…]
At least 76 police officers and dozens of protesters have been injured in clashes in Hamburg ahead of the G20 summit, officials said. Police used water cannon, pepper spray and batons to disperse marchers after some attacked them with bottles and other objects on Thursday. The skirmishes came hours before[…]
Indonesian police are investigating allegations of blasphemy and hate speech against the youngest son of President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo. Police plan to summon Kaesang Pangarep for questioning after receiving a complaint about a video uploaded to YouTube in May, Jakarta police spokesman Argo Yuwono said Thursday. The nearly three-minute video[…]
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