A report released by rights group The Syria Campaign accuses the United Nations of delivering 99 percent of its aid to government-controlled territories, and calls on the UN to “restore its impartiality”. The report, based on interviews with aid workers, including current and former UN staff, finds the UN in[…]
The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub knew of his plans for the attack and could soon be charged in connection with the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, a law enforcement source said on Tuesday. The source told Reuters that a[…]
US President Barack Obama has called the debate surrounding “radical Islam” a political distraction, stressing that calls for tougher talk on terrorism and a strict ban on Muslim immigration would make Muslim Americans feel betrayed by their government. Obama told reporters after meeting with the US National Security Council on[…]
The Ethics Committee of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, decided to uphold a provision Tuesday prohibiting members of the Knesset (MK), both Jewish and Palestinian, from entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, according to a press release from the Israeli Knesset. The measure was implemented in November by the Ethics Committee amid a[…]
Saudi green card will only be given to foreign investors and highly qualified experts among expats, according to a top Shoura Council official. He said a number of ministries are still studying the procedures of granting the permanent residence card. The regulations will be announced soon. Speaking to Arab News,[…]
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange warns more information will be published about Hillary Clinton, enough to indict her if the US government is courageous enough to do so, in what he predicts will be “a very big year” for the whistleblowing website. Expressing concerns in an ITV interview about the Democratic[…]
An attacker has killed a French police commander and his wife at their home in a Paris suburb before being shot dead by police officers. The attack on Monday evening was claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group, which said the assailant was one of[…]
At least 224 people were killed in the first week of Ramadan in Syria, with the majority of the deaths resulting from bombings by Syrian and Russian warplanes, according to a monitor. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based monitor, said on Monday that between 6 and 12 June[…]
Germany and Namibia are in the advanced stages of talks on officially recognising as “genocide” a colonial-era crackdown more than a century ago in which more than 65 000 ethnic Hereros were killed, the German government said on Monday. It hopes to conclude them by late next year. Historians say[…]
The UN Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Monday calling for Libya’s feuding militias and security forces to unite and strengthen national security forces to defend the country from “terrorism.” The resolution encouraged the recently formed national unity government to finalise interim security arrangements to stabilise the country “as[…]
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