Iranian parliament has passed a bill demanding that the government seek damages from the United States’ “hostile action and crimes” committed since 1953, citing “material or moral damage” caused by Washington’s policy toward Iran. Among the “hostile actions” mentioned in the bill are the US support for the coup against[…]
Two Chinese fighter jets carried out an “unsafe” intercept of a U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft over the South China Sea, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, a further escalation of tensions in and around the contested waterway. The incident took place in international airspace on Tuesday as the U.S. maritime patrol[…]
The extremist armed group Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has unlawfully executed at least 49 people in its Libyan stronghold of Sirte since February 2015, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Those killed, by means such as decapitating and shooting, include captive fighters, political opponents, and[…]
Col Kizza Besigye has formally been charged with treason at Nakawa Chief Magistrate court and remanded back to Luzira prison. Besigye appeared in a court session that lasted only about 10 minutes, 30 minutes earlier than the scheduled 9am session. The session led by Nakawa Chief Magistrate James Eremye was[…]
More than 3,000 desperate Iraqi Sunni refugees have arrived in the al-Hawl refugee camp on the Syria side of the border in the past week as the fight against the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq gathers pace. Fresh advances were reported on Wednesday in the western Iraqi city of Rutba[…]
One of the 219 schoolgirls abducted in Chibok in northeast Nigeria has been found, the first such development since their seizure by Boko Haram more than two years ago, according to activists, the head of a support group and a community leader. Boko Haram, an armed group fighting against Western[…]
The Moroccan Interior Ministry has expressed outrage at the US State Department’s report on human rights in its country, which it says is based on unreliable sources and contains outright “lies.” The North African US ally warns it is “prepared to go to the end” to defend its record. The[…]
While the world powers that gathered in Vienna on Tuesday to discuss the Syrian peace process stressed that all parties to the conflict should make peace a priority, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister warned that time may be coming for “Plan B” in Syria. “It was made clear that Bashar al-Assad[…]
More than 150 people are feared dead after they were buried under two landslides in central Sri Lanka, disaster officials said on Wednesday. Rescue workers recovered 19 bodies after the landslides caused by days of heavy rains, government officials said. About 350 people were plucked to safety during rescue operations[…]
Saudi Arabia’s Cabinet of Ministers Monday reaffirmed its committed to ensuring Muslims from around the world can perform the pilgrimage. The Saudi Press Agency reported that the kingdom ‘welcomes and is honored in serving pilgrims, Umrah performers and visitors of all nationalities and it does not prevent any Muslim from[…]
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