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[…]
Harrowing accounts by pre-teen victims of a rapist at Turkey’s Nizip refugee camp paint a picture of systematic abuse at the site designed to be a sanctuary. Amid the ongoing probe, neither reporters, nor opposition MPs are able to freely access the camp. Sputnik agency has obtained an indictment of[…]
Senior diplomats from the West and the Middle East are meeting in the Austrian capital Vienna in an effort to salvage efforts to halt Syria’s civil war. John Kerry, US secretary of state, and Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, will chair the meeting on Tuesday. At the gathering, the 17-nation[…]
Authorities worried about increasingly strident calls for Hong Kong independence are taking no chances ahead of a rare visit from one of China’s top ranking officials, shutting down swathes of the city and reportedly gluing down pavers to quell the prospect of violent protests. Mainland Chinese media have cited the[…]
The NSA participated in Guantanamo Bay interrogations, while the US military took part in a rendition from Bosnia, newly released leaks by whistleblower Edward Snowden show. A decade’s worth of NSA newsletters will be published over the coming months. On Monday, The Intercept published the first three months’ worth of[…]
World powers are ready to consider demands from Libya’s new unity government for exemptions from a UN arms embargo and militarily equip it in its fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) and other groups. The joint decision, announced by US Secretary[…]
Last week, as Israelis celebrated their Independence Day, Palestinians in the country’s south held the annual March of Return, walking to the site of one of hundreds of Palestinian villages destroyed between 1947 and 1949. This mass displacement and dispossession, known as the Nakba (catastrophe), is commemorated internationally each May. But[…]
One of Italy’s most popular politicians, the comedian Beppe Grillo, took a swipe at Sadiq Khan, saying London’s first Muslim mayor would “blow himself up in front of Westminster”. Racist and misogynist humour is not uncommon within extreme parties in Italian politics, but the remark by the head of the[…]
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