Middle East
Teenage patient dies in Gaza after being denied access to hospital
A 17-year-old Palestinian boy has died in the Gaza Strip after being denied access to hospitals in the Israeli-occupied territories, a human rights group says. The…
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Africa
Gunmen kill five policemen in Sinai: Report
Suspected militants in Egypt’s North Sinai Province have killed five off-duty security forces, a report says. Egyptian Rassad news outlet reported that the killings took place…
USA
Trump to begin renegotiating NAFTA deal with Mexico, Canada
US President Donald Trump is planning to start renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as soon as he meets with Mexican and Canadian leaders.…
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Delegates from Damascus, opposition groups in Kazakh capital for talks
Representatives of the Syrian government and opposition groups have gathered in the Kazakh capital Astana to hold peace talks aimed at ending the six-year conflict in…
Africa
Gambia’s Jammeh ‘emptied coffers’ before leaving
The Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh, who caused a political crisis in the African country before finally going into exile, has emptied the government’s treasury, plundering…
Europe
Hamon, Valls lead in first round of French socialist primaries: Early results
French politicians Benoit Hamon and Manuel Valls are in the lead in the first round of the Socialist Party’s primary elections in their quest to win…
Middle East
Abbas warns of ‘ramifications’ if US embassy moved
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has met with Jordan's King Abdullah II to discuss “ramifications” if the US moves its Israel embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem…
Middle East
Nearly 90 bodies exhumed at Daesh massacre site: Iraq
Iraqi forensic specialists and international activists have found a mass grave containing the remains of more than seven dozen victims of a June 2014 massacre by…
USA
3 Million people around the world held rallies to show solidarity with the massive Women’s March on Washington
People around the world held rallies to show solidarity with the massive Women’s March on Washington, which drew an estimated 3 million protesters across the United…
Middle East
Iran establishes saffron bank
Iran has launched a high-security bank to store major amounts of the crown jewel of its non-oil exports – saffron. The bank has been set up…
Middle East
Four killed in Satanic US drone strikes in Yemen
Separate US drone attacks have killed four people in the southwestern Yemeni province of Bayda. Yemeni security sources, who were speaking on condition of anonymity, said…
Asiia-Pacific
Two killed, 10 missing in central China landslide
Two people have been killed and another 10 are feared dead following a landslide that hit a mountainous area in central China. Local authorities confirmed that…