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[…]
More than 200 Palestinians from the besieged Gaza Strip traveled to occupied East Jerusalem to attend Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, according to Palestinian liaison officials. The officials told Ma’an that 250 Palestinian worshipers, all above the age of 50, traveled to Jerusalem via the Erez crossing between the besieged[…]
The Bureau of Investigation and Public Prosecution (BIP) has dismissed any criminal motive behind the fall of the giant crane on the Grand Mosque last September, according to sources of the Summary Court in Jeddah which is trying 14 suspects in the case. Hundreds of pilgrims were killed and injured[…]
Leading international medical charity MSF has evacuated staff from six hospitals in Yemen due to frequently occurring “indiscriminate shelling” by the Saudi-led coalition. The latest airstrike on a MSF facility killed 19 people and injured 24 this week. As a result of the August 15 aerial bombardment of Abs hospital[…]
History-maker Usain Bolt said he deserves to be among sport’s all-time greats after romping to a third straight Olympic 200m gold. With a third consecutive sweep of the 100m, 200m and relay sprints in sight on Friday, the world’s fastest man argued he should be in the pantheon of sporting[…]
Syrian government fighter jets have bombed Kurdish-held areas of the northeastern city of Hasakah for the first time in the five-year-old civil war, according to fighters and a monitoring group. The Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), a key US ally in the fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and[…]
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