Hundreds of employees with the UN body assisting Palestinian refugees have protested in the Gaza Strip over what they describe as the agency’s slashing of the vital services it provides to Palestinians, especially schooling. The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) had warned that schooling for half a million Palestinian[…]
Israeli authorities on Monday offered to free Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad Allan if he leaves the country, a demand his lawyer immediately dismissed, while the Israeli Supreme Court postponed taking a decision on whether to release him. Issa Qaraqe, the head of the Palestinian Authority Committee for Prisoners’ Affairs, said that[…]
At least 12 people have been killed and 78 wounded by a bomb blast that hit the commercial centre of the Thai capital Bangkok, police have said. The blast, which was said to have taken place near the Erawan Shrine, occurred about 7.10pm local time, according to the Bangkok Post.[…]
Egyptian authorities have opened the Rafah crossing with the besieged Gaza Strip, allowing Palestinians to travel in both directions for the first time in two months. The border crossing, Gaza’s only gateway to the outside world with no Israeli control, opened on Monday for four days. Palestinian border official Khaled[…]
The Syrian air force bombarded an area northeast of Damascus on Monday, keeping up its attack on a rebel-held district where close to 100 people were killed on Sunday in an air strike on a market, a monitoring group reported. An insurgent rocket attack on the government-held coastal city of[…]
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday approved an anti-terrorism law that sets up special courts and provides protections to its enforcers in the face of a two-year-long insurgency that aims to topple his government. The law also details sentences for various crimes ranging from five years to the death[…]
At least 110 people have been killed in a string of Syrian government air strikes on a marketplace in Douma, a rebel-held town near Damascus, activists said. At least 300 people were injured, with the death toll, most of them civilians, likely to rise as many of the wounded were[…]
An Indonesian search and rescue plane spotted debris on Monday believed to be from a crashed aircraft with 54 people on board in Papua province, the local police chief said. The debris thought to be from the Trigana Air Service plane was sighted in the heavily-forested Bintang Mountains regency, police[…]
An Indonesian twin-turboprop aircraft carrying 54 people lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday in the remote, forested eastern Papua region, the National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) said, with search efforts hampered by failing light as night falls. “We can’t confirm it has crashed. We can say contact[…]
Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian after he stabbed a Border Police officer near Beita in southern Nablus, Palestinian medics and Israeli police said. Israeli police identified him as 21-year-old Rafeeq Kamil Rafeeq al-Taj, based on his identity card. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society earlier identified him incorrectly as his[…]
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