Europe has answered the call of the French youth-led ‘Nuit Debout’ movement urging people to protest against austerity and other troubling social and economic issues. Rallies have been held in dozens of cities, with the largest crowds in Paris and Madrid. The capital of Spain saw thousands rally in Madrid’s[…]
An ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) attack on a state-run gas plant in Baghdad’s northern outskirts on Sunday killed at least 11 people, including policemen, and forced two power stations to suspend electricity production. A suicide car bomb went off at the entrance of the facility in[…]
Top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine was killed in an Israeli strike in Syria this week, the Lebanese Shia group has said. “He took part in most of the operations of the Islamic resistance since 1982,” Hezbollah said in a statement on Friday, announcing his death and describing him as a[…]
Muslims in Iran could miss out on the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia this year as Tehran and Riyadh trade blame over a failure to agree organisational details, according to media reports. A delegation from Tehran held four days of talks in Saudi Arabia last month, aimed at reaching[…]
Israeli authorities allowed hundreds of Palestinian worshipers from the Gaza Strip to enter occupied East Jerusalem to perform Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque. Sources at the Palestinian liaison office told Ma’an that 300 Gazans above the age of 50 headed to Jerusalem via the Erez crossing in the northern[…]
Thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel participated in the annual “March of Return” on Thursday afternoon near Bedouin towns in the Negev (Naqab) in southern Israel, commemorating the 1948 Nakba, amid the conclusion of Israeli independence day celebrations. Demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and held banners emblazoned with support for the[…]
The Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has been rocked by three successive bombings that claimed the lives of dozens of civilians, according to police sources and media. Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks. The car bombing attack in the city’s district of Sadr City killed at least 63 people and[…]
Brazil’s senators are debating whether to put President Dilma Rousseff on trial over allegations that she illegally manipulated the budget to hide a growing fiscal deficit. The debate, which continued into the early hours of Thursday, will be followed by a vote that could suspend Rousseff, the first woman to[…]
Vietnam would welcome the United States “accelerating” the lifting of a lethal arms embargo, which would reflect trust between the two countries and recognition of its needs to defend itself, its foreign ministry said on Thursday. The comment by Vietnam comes just over a week ahead of a visit to[…]
A car bomb in a predominantly Shia district of the Iraqi capital has killed at least 50 people and wounded at least 100 others, police sources told Al Jazeera. A 4WD vehicle packed with explosives blew up near a beauty salon in a bustling market at rush hour in Baghdad’s[…]
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