A suicide car bomb attack in the heart of Kabul’s diplomatic district has killed at least 12 people and wounded 92, according to officials, in a powerful blast described as “one of the biggest” to have hit the Afghan capital. Sources said the explosion on Wednesday took place near Zanbaq[…]
The US Department of Justice has opened an investigation on a New Jersey city’s rejection of a planned mosque, a spokesman confirmed on Tuesday. The US Attorney’s office in New Jersey, in conjunction with members of the department’s civil rights headquarters in Washington, DC, is examining whether officials in Bayonne,[…]
Following reports that US President Donald Trump has prioritised the normalisation of relations between Israel and Arab countries prior to restarting diplomatic negotiations for the two-state compromise, misplaced accusations of “incitement” have resurfaced, allegedly during Trump’s meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. According to Israeli media, Trump “yelled” at[…]
Marwan Barghouthi, the imprisoned Fatah leader who led a mass 40-day hunger strike across Israeli prisons, released a statement on Tuesday for the first time since the end of the hunger strike several days ago, calling the strike a “turning point” in the Palestinian prisoners’ relationship with Israeli prison officials[…]
Two Venezuelan opposition leaders were among more than a dozen people wounded by security forces dispersing protests in the capital Caracas against President Nicolas Maduro. Maduro’s adversaries have for two months been blocking highways and setting up barricades in protests demanding he call early elections and address an increasingly severe[…]
Bangladesh has evacuated at least 350,000 people as Cyclone Mora lashed coastal areas on Tuesday, packing heavy rains and winds that destroyed hundreds of homes on several islands in the Bay of Bengal. The severe storm made landfall between Cox’s Bazar and the main port city of Chittagong early on[…]
Egypt issued a new law on Monday that regulates the work of non-governmental organisations, a measure seen by rights groups as the latest sign of a growing crackdown on dissent against President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Human rights groups and activists say the law in effect bans their work and makes[…]
An Israeli man attempted on Monday to enter the al-Qibli mosque — the main mosque where Muslim worshippers perform prayers — located inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem, but was prevented by a group of worshippers. Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) Jerusalem chapter director Nasser Qaws told Ma’an[…]
A day after hundreds of Palestinians held in Israeli prisons suspended a 40-day mass hunger strike, more details emerged on Sunday regarding the outcome of negotiations between hunger strikers and the Israel Prison Service (IPS), with a Palestinian Committee of Prisoners Affairs official saying that 80 percent of the strike’s[…]
Egypt has blocked the website of one of its most prominent financial newspapers, the paper’s owner said on Sunday, expanding a media blackout initiated last week to curb what authorities called support for terrorism and fake news. Egypt blocked access to a number of news websites including Al-Jazeera and Huffington[…]
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