Indonesian police have arrested three men over links to attacks in Jakarta that left seven people dead including five attackers, local TV reported. The arrests on Friday came less than 24 hours after the shooting and bombing rampage, the first such attack in the country since 2009. Colonel Dwiyono told[…]
Theeb, a Jordanian film about a young Bedouin boy during the first World War, has been nominated for an Academy Award. If the coming-of-age desert drama, which was funded by film organisations in the UAE, Qatar, Jordan and the UK, wins at the ceremony on February 28, it will become[…]
The U.S. Justice Department has begun talks with Mexican authorities about extraditing drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman to the United States, a spokesman said on Thursday. Guzman’s extradition to face charges in the United States was discussed on Tuesday at a meeting in Miami between Arely Gomez, Mexico’s attorney[…]
The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has claimed responsibility for the coordinated bomb and gun attacks in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, a news agency linked to ISIL reported on Thursday. At least seven people, including five attackers, were killed in the explosions and gun battle between[…]
Aid was sent on Thursday to a Syrian town blockaded by pro-government forces and two villages besieged by rebels for the second time this week, and a U.N. official said he hoped to make more deliveries to areas where people are starving. Dozens of trucks left Damascus for the town[…]
Palestinians say Israel has severely curtailed gas supplies to the occupied Gaza Strip this winter, fueling a major disruption to ordinary life for most families and exacerbating the harsh impact of the cold weather. Tholfikar Sweirjo, a member of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine’s committee in[…]
A cartoon in the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has caused online shock by suggesting drowned toddler Alan Kurdi would have grown up to be a sexual abuser like those immigrants allegedly involved in the assaults in Cologne. Under the headline “Migrants”, the drawing shows two lascivious pig-like men with[…]
A car bomb blast near a police building in a Kurdish-majority province in southeastern Turkey has killed five people and injured more than 30 others, officials told Al Jazeera. The bomb attack, blamed by officials on the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), caused heavy damage to outer walls of the[…]
Iran released 10 U.S. sailors on Wednesday after holding them overnight, bringing a swift end to an incident that had rattled nerves days ahead of the expected implementation of a landmark nuclear accord between Tehran and world powers. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it had freed the sailors[…]
Four flotilla activists have filed a suit against Israel in a US federal court, seeking damages for injuries they say they sustained during a 2010 Israeli raid on a boat bound for besieged Gaza Strip. Lawyers for the plaintiffs in the civil case, who include three Americans and one Belgian[…]
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