Saudi Arabia’s first election campaign open to women ends on Thursday but voters – who will include women for the first time as well – see little chance for female candidates. More than 900 women, along with some 6,000 men, are seeking seats on 284 municipal councils whose powers are[…]
Israeli authorities released a well-known Palestinian rights activist and journalist on Thursday after being held for 18 months under administrative detention, locals told Ma’an. Nidal Abu Aker, who has served a total of 14 non-consecutive years in Israeli prison, was released to his family in Duheisha refugee camp south of Bethlehem.[…]
At least 27 Iraqi soldiers have been killed in two suicide attacks northwest of Ramadi as the push to recapture the city from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group continues, military sources say. Ramadi, situated about 120km from the capital, Baghdad, was captured by ISIL in[…]
Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Abdel Al-Jubeir has issued a fresh call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down through negotiations or else be forcibly removed from power, as Syrian opposition groups held talks in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Jubeir made the statement on Thursday, while Syrian opposition leaders discussed[…]
One of nine top fugitive Rwandan genocide suspects, a former mayor accused of crimes against humanity, has been arrested in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations has said. Ladislas Ntaganzwa is accused of organising “the massacre of thousands of Tutsis at various locations,” the UN-backed Mechanism for International[…]
US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s latest pledge that he would “ban all Muslims” from entering the United States is being roundly criticized in the US, even by prominent members of his own party. Former vice president Dick Cheney called Trump’s statement “against everything we believe in,” and presidential candidate[…]
At least 70 people have been killed by Taliban fighters in a siege at Afghanistan’s Kandahar airport, officials told Al Jazeera. Official details about the number of casualties and the ongoing nature of the attack, which began on Tuesday night, have been conflicting – with the ministry of defence saying[…]
Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest crude oil exporter, has a lot to lose if the global economy shifts to clean energy. So at 195-nation UN talks in Paris aimed at forging a climate-saving accord that will slash greenhouse gas emissions, it is perhaps not surprising that Riyadh stands accused of[…]
Over $220 million has been given in tax-exempted US funds to illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank over the last five years, according to an investigative report by Israeli news site Haaretz this week. Haaretz published the findings after analyzing thousands of documents from filed taxes as well as[…]
Internet activists, rights campaigners and politicians are calling for the British government to ban Donald Trump from the UK on the grounds of hate speech, after the Republican presidential hopeful called for all Muslims to be banned from entering the United States. In a speech on Monday, Trump told a[…]
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