Armenia and Azerbaijan accused each other at the UN Security Council Thursday of being responsible for border clashes that killed dozens of people in recent days. The United Nations said, however, that it was unable to verify the allegations from eithe…
10 killed in clashes between farmers and herders in Chad
Ten people have been killed in two days of clashes between herders and farmers in southern Chad, a local governor said Thursday. Tensions between semi-nomadic Arab herders and sedentary African farmers is a traditional problem in central and southern C…
King Charles to host world leaders ahead of Queen’s funeral
Presidents, prime ministers and monarchs from around the world will travel to London over the weekend to pay their respects to Queen Elizabeth and attend a reception at Buckingham Palace to be hosted by King Charles the day before her funeral. US Presi…
Morocco, Nigeria agree to pipe gas to West Africa, Europe
A memorandum of understanding was signed Thursday for the development of a project to pump gas from Nigeria to Morocco via West Africa and then to Europe, the parties said. The agreement to go ahead with the Nigeria-Morocco Gas Pipeline project was ink…
Tunisia government reaches pay deal with key union
Tunisia’s government and the country’s powerful UGTT union signed a deal boosting public sector salaries on Thursday, three months aftera strike that paralysed the country. The deal involves a five percent annual hike to public sector wages every year …
‘Miracle’ in Jordan as baby rescued from collapsed building
Jordanian mother Israa Raed said she was indescribably happy on Thursday, after emergency workers rescued her four-month-old daughter Malak from therubble of a collapsed building in the capital Amman. “I knew it was her by her pink pyjamas,” Israa Raed…
After heist, Lebanese activists promise more bank raids
A Lebanese activist group on Thursday vowed to organize more bank heists to help people retrieve their locked savings as the country’s years-long economic crisis continues to worsen. Activists from Depositors’ Outcry group accompanied Sali Hafez into a…
New batch of Syrian prison photos opens ‘old wounds’
It had been nearly a decade since Mahmoud al-Khalaf laid eyes on his father, but he immediately recognised the bruised and battered face in the graphic photograph circulating online. It was one of four published samples from a cache of 800 images alleg…
Egypt orders release of 46 detainees in latest pardons
Egyptian authorities announced on Thursday the release of 46 detainees, including a prominent human rights lawyer, the latest to be freed from jail amid intensifying international attention. Tarik el-Awady, a member of Egypt’s presidential pardon commi…
US predicts IS group would strengthen: declassified reports
US intelligence officials predicted two years ago that the Islamic State group would likely regain much of its former strength and global influence, particularly if American and other Western forces reduced their role in countering the extremist moveme…