Thousands of Tunisians demonstrated Saturday in the capital Tunis, denouncing a power grab by President Kais Saied and demanding accountability for the country’s long-running economic crisis, AFP correspondents said. Saied staged a dramatic power grab …
Afghanistan: Director of TOLOnews leaves Kabul
The head of the leading Afghan news channel, TOLONews, announced on Friday that he had left Afghanistan, saying that after months of Taliban rule he “couldn’t continue”. Khpalwak Sapai, a journalist for nearly 17 years, posted on his Twitter page that …
Two Palestinians wounded by Israeli fire in West Bank
Two Palestinians were critically wounded Saturday by Israeli military fire in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, amid increasing Israeli attacks in the occupied territory. One Palestinian was hit by “live bullets to the chest…
Israel interior minister calls Palestinian MKs ‘terrorists’
Israeli Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked attacked Palestinian Knesset Members on Friday describing them as terrorists. Responding to a video published by the Arab Front for Change parliamentary coalition, which shows Israeli abuses in occupied East Jeru…
Rights groups call for probe on Yemen child patient deaths
Human rights organisations have called for international bodies to open an investigation into the deaths of 10 child cancer patients in an area of Yemen controlled by the Houthi rebels after they were given expired medicine. The Houthi-run health minis…
Kwarteng previously praised Libya’s Haftar as stable option
Former UK Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng once praised Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar for offering “stable” leadership amid a time of political “chaos” in the north African country. The Conservative MP wrote an article in the Evening Standard in 2017 that lam…
Houthi official advises Saudi enemies on OPEC after US rift
Muhammad Ali al-Houthi, a senior leader in the Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi movement, has advised Saudi Arabia to respond firmly to US threats following OPEC’s recent decision to cut oil production. The Houthi movement, which seized control of the Yemeni…
Syria: Inter-rebel clashes spread out as peace talks fail
Clashes between rival rebel militias in northwest Syria have become more widespread after talks to strike a reconciliation deal failed, sources told The New Arab’s Arabic-language sister site. It had been hoped talks on Friday between hardline Islamist…
At least five killed in Sudan clashes
Clashes between rival groups in Sudan’s West Kordofan state have killed at least five people and wounded nine others, the army said Saturday. Violence erupted a day earlier between members of rival ethnic Nuba and Misseriya people in the town of Lagawa…
Palestinian gunman killed by Israeli forces near Ramallah
Israeli forces late on Friday killed a Palestinian who had opened fire at the Israeli settlement of Beit El, north of Ramallah. The Palestinian health ministry gave his identity as 23-year-old Qais Shijaiyah from the village of Deir Jarir north east of…