There are only ten days left for European Union officials to significantly reduce the flow of migrants and asylum-seekers into the EU from Turkey, or the Schengen system is at risk of total collapse, according to the EU’s migration commissioner. “In the next 10 days, we need tangible and clear[…]
Imprisoned Palestinian hunger-striker Muhammad al-Qiq on Friday ended a grueling 94-day hunger strike that has brought him close to death after his lawyers struck an eleventh hour deal with the Israeli authorities. Qadura Fares, the head of the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society, told Ma’an that while Israel had not agreed to[…]
Omar Nayef Zayed, a former Palestinian political prisoner and escaped hunger striker whose extradition from Bulgaria Israel demanded in December, was found dead on Friday morning inside the Palestinian embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria, where he had sought refuge. “Omar Nayef Zayed was targeted as a Palestinian, as a struggler, as[…]
African mobile giant MTN has paid the Nigerian government $250 million in a bid to settle a dispute over unregistered SIM cards. Authorities feared the sim cards were being used by members of Boko Haram. The Nigerian government slapped a record 1.04 trillion naira ($5.2 billion) fine on South Africa-based[…]
The war in Syria has robbed it of its modern history and four decades of social and economic progress, a UN official said at the Valdai discussion forum in Moscow, where over 100 international officials have gathered to discuss the Middle East crisis. Over 100 political, academic and clerical figures[…]
Iran’s elections this week are crucial as they will determine whether the Persian-style controlled opening conducted by President Hassan Rouhani – and his premier Javad Zarif – will ensure continuity, supported by a favorable Majlis (Parliament). Not only have Iran’s elections yielded prime political players, such as “dialogue of civilizations”[…]
The United States presented a draft Security Council resolution on Thursday it negotiated with China that would dramatically tighten existing restrictions on North Korea after its Jan. 6 nuclear test and create the toughest U.N. sanctions regime in over two decades. The draft, seen by Reuters, would require U.N. member[…]
A huge explosion rocked a divisional police headquarters in Jimeta town of Nigeria’s northeastern state of Adamawa on Thursday, according to local authorities. The Adamawa state authority has confirmed the suspected bomb blast at the premises of Adamawa Motor Traffic Department of the Nigeria Police. Harun Furo, Permanent Secretary of[…]
While Ugandans spar over President Yoweri Museveni’s disputed re-election this month, a bigger battle is already looming: whether the country will change its constitution to allow him to stay in power for life. Museveni, 71, who came to power in 1986 and has endeared himself to the West by fighting[…]
Business came to a standstill on Thursday and Friday when local employees at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Botswana were released to go home as the embassy staff focused attention on addressing the issue of the Islands in South China Sea. Visa application processing was also[…]
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