Right-wing Israelis and settlers took to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Tuesday, as hundreds more foreign tourists toured the site, amid ongoing security restrictions on Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem for the Jewish holiday of Passover. Thousands of Israeli police were deployed across the city to provide protection for Israelis,[…]
The US defence secretary has said there is no doubt that the Syrian government was responsible for a poison gas attack last week on a rebel-held town, adding that it had used chemical weapons several times in the past. During a press conference in Washington on Tuesday, James Mattis told[…]
German investigators are hunting for possible suspects responsible for three explosions that rocked Dortmund football team’s bus, injuring a player. The assault, described by Dortmund city’s police chief as a “targeted attack” against the team, shook German football ahead of a Champions League quarter-final at home to Monaco. Borussia Dortmund’s[…]
Israeli forces detained 509 Palestinians across the occupied Palestinian territories in March, prisoners’ rights organisations said in a joint report yesterday. The report – written by the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), the Palestinian Committee of Prisoners’ Affairs, Al-Mezan Centre for Human Rights and Addameer – said that the detainees included[…]
Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialised nations meeting in Lucca in Italy are looking to put pressure on Russia to break its ties with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Calling last week’s US missile strike on a Syrian airbase a “game changer”, Boris Johnson, UK foreign minister,[…]
The Nigerian Army has released 593 people who have been cleared of having no ties with Islamist militant group Boko Haram. The Chief of Army Staff Lieutenant-General Tukur Buratai sanctioned their release which was done at a ceremony in Maiduguri on Monday, Brigadier General Abdulrahman Kuluya confirmed. Commander of the[…]
Egypt has declared a state of emergency following bomb attacks on two Coptic churches which left at least 45 dead. Both blasts were caught on camera. One hit Saint Mark’s Cathedral in Alexandria killing at least 17 and injuring dozens more. The other tore through the inside of St George’s[…]
Allies of Damascus have threatened reprisals against any party that carries out “aggression” against Syria, two days after US missile strikes hit a Syrian airbase. US sends mixed signals about strategy for Syria “The aggression against Syria oversteps all red lines. We will react firmly to any aggression against Syria[…]
A government programme for separate schools for pregnant students introduced two years ago in Sierra Leone is facing critical scrutiny. Pregnant students were not allowed to sit in the same class in the West African country as their peers because they are seen as a bad influence. In April 2015, schools[…]
The United States had fired nearly 60 Tomahawk missiles at a military airfield in Syria, the first direct military action Washington has taken against Syrian government forces in the six-year-old conflict. The US said the missiles on Friday severely damaged or destroyed Syrian aircraft and support infrastructure and equipment at[…]
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