At least 84 people were killed and 100 injured in the French city of Nice when a man deliberately drove a lorry into a crowd celebrating the country’s main national holiday, authorities said. The attacker behind the wheel on Thursday drove at high speed along the famed Promenade des Anglais[…]
Fighting in Yemen killed at least 44 people in a 24-hour period to Wednesday, military officials said, as the UN’s peace envoy arrived in the capital to meet rebels. Saudi-backed government forces clashed with the Houthi rebels and fighters loyal to ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh in battles across western[…]
Israel opened a major crossing between Israel and Gaza on Wednesday to allow the passage of vehicles carrying goods for the first time in nine years, officials said. An AFP photographer saw deliveries arriving through the Erez crossing at the northern entry to the Palestinian territory that has been under[…]
The Philippines has said that Beijing should respect an international tribunal’s ruling that rejected Chinese claims to most of the South China Sea, adding that it will raise the issue at a regional summit. The Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague ruled on Tuesday that China’s claims to the[…]
Omar al-Shishani, a top commander of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), has been killed in Iraq, a website affiliated with the armed group said. Citing a “military source”, ISIL’s website on Wednesday said that Shishani was killed “in the town of Sharqat as he took part[…]
Charges and a trial are expected soon over last year’s crane collapse in Makkah that killed 111 pilgrims and injured 238 people just days before the start of the annual Haj pilgrimage. The Bureau of Investigation (BIP) and Prosecution in Makkah has handed over its findings to Makkah’s criminal court[…]
The New Black Panther Party, a “black power” movement, will carry firearms for self-defense during rallies in Cleveland ahead of next week’s Republican convention, if allowed under Ohio law, the group’s chairman said. The plan by the group this weekend comes as police in Cleveland brace for an influx of[…]
Somali schoolgirls risk losing out on education and becoming child brides if they are forced to leave the world’s largest refugee camp in Kenya and move to their war-torn country where there are not enough schools, Malala Yousafzai said on Tuesday. The Pakistani teenage education activist, who survived a near-fatal[…]
Train services on the longest rail motorway in Europe have been shut down after numerous attempts by migrants from the so-called “Jungle” camp near the French city of Calais to break into the unaccompanied trailers transporting goods from Spain to the UK. The migrants repeatedly attempted to get inside the[…]
The Chinese government has blamed the Philippines for stirring up trouble in South China Sea, a day after an international tribunal ruled China had no legal basis for its expansive claims. “It is the Philippines that has created and stirred up the trouble,” Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin said[…]
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