Afghans living in a makeshift refugee camp in the United Arab Emirates staged demonstrations this week protesting the uncertainty of their status, participants told Reuters, and one refugee now in Canada said they are “psychologically suffering”. Resid…
Zelensky seeks mechanism to punish all Russian ‘murderers’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Thursday stressed the need to punish all Russian “murderers and torturers” and appealed for more air defence systems to fight Moscow’s renewed offensive. Zelensky told the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council …
North Korea launches ballistic missile into sea: South Korea
North Korea fired an unidentified ballistic missile into the sea off its east coast, South Korea’s military said on Friday, the latest in a series of launches by the nuclear-armed country. A statement from South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) gave…
Frontex covered up Greek migrant pushbacks, EU report says
A much-anticipated report by the European Union’s anti-fraud watchdog into the alleged involvement of the EU border agency Frontex in Greece’s illegal pushbacks of migrants to Turkey has concluded that agency employees were involved in covering up such…
UK repatriates British mother, child from Syria
The British government has repatriated a woman and her child from Syria, human rights group Reprieve said Thursday. London has previously repatriated British children from Syria, but the mother repatriated this week is the first adult the UK has taken …
Morocco court jails 15 more migrants following Melilla disaster
A Moroccan court has handed heavy prison terms to 15 Sudanese migrants arrested after a June tragedy at a Spanish border in which two dozen migrants died, their lawyer said Thursday. They had been detained after some 2,000 people, stormed the frontier …
Torrential rain, flooding kills four in western Algeria
Flooding caused by torrential rains has killed at least four people in Algeria’s western province of Tiaret, the Algerian Civil Defence said on Thursday. The four victims, who included three children, were all members of the same family, the rescue aut…
Kremlin says its goals in Ukraine may be achieved through talks
The Kremlin was quoted as saying on Thursday that the goals of its “special military operation” in Ukraine are unchanged, but that they may be achieved through negotiations. The comments by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov to Russian newspaper Izvestia …
Canada slaps more sanctions on Iran over rights violations
Canada announced more sanctions Thursday against Iran over human rights violations during the protests now sweeping that country. The sanctions target three Iranian entities and 17 individuals including Saeed Mortavazi, a prosecutor at the Iranian Revo…
Stunning Roman-era mosaic unearthed in Syria’s Rastan
Syrian regime authorities on Wednesday revealed a remarkably intact 1,600-year-old Roman-era mosaic including depictions of warriors in the Trojan War, with officials hailing it as one of the “rarest” found. Much of Syria’s cultural heritage has been d…