Sanaa, Yemen – AFP UN special envoy Hans Grundberg started his first visit to Yemen’s rebel-held capital Monday, following an April 2 ceasefire. The Swedish diplomat is scheduled to meet Huthi rebel officials during his first Sanaa visit since taking office in September. “He is looking forward to engaging with Ansar Allah (Hu...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – A passenger ship crashed into an oil tanker in the Port of Algiers, the tanker’s owner said Sunday. “The cruise ship named ‘Corsica Linea’ belonging to the French company Nicoli collided with an oil tanker of the Naftal Company which was anchored in Algiers port as the captain of the ship […]...
PARIS (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron, who won the first round of the country’s presidential elections Sunday, has said he does not want a France that would have international populists and xenophobes as its only allies. Macron made the statement at an event in Paris following the announcement of exit polls. Thanking Paris Mayor [&hell...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israel rounded up 21 Palestinians in raids carried out across the occupied West Bank on Monday, according to a local NGO. In a statement, the Asra Media Office said the arrests took place in the cities of Nablus, Tulkarem, Jenin, East Jerusalem, Ramallah and Bethlehem. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said [&hell...
ROME (AA) – A migrant shipwreck in the central Mediterranean has left at least 19 people dead, an official at the United Nation’s migration agency said Sunday. Flavio Di Giacomo, spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM), quoted information from Sea-Watch, a German charity that runs a sea rescue mission. “Another t...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – Thousands of supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party took to the streets in several cities across the country Sunday to protest his ouster in a no-confidence vote in parliament. According to local media, protests were staged in the capital Islamabad and many other cities,...
JENIN CITY, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian teen died Monday of his wounds he sustained from Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank a day earlier, according to a medical source. Mohammad Zakarneh, 17, was injured in clashes during an Israeli raid into Jenin city on Sunday. The medical source said that Zakarneh underwent several […]
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish security forces have struck targets belonging to the PKK in northern Iraq and parts of northern Syria, Turkiye’s National Defense Ministry said Monday. At least two PKK members in the Euphrates Shield Operation zone in northern Syria were killed, the ministry said on Twitter. Another PKK member identified via ...
ANKARA – Ukraine has claimed that a total of 19,100 Russian soldiers have been killed since the start of Russia’s war. In a statement, the Ukrainian General Staff said that since the beginning of the war, the Ukrainian army has destroyed 151 Russian-owned aircraft, 136 helicopters, 705 tanks, 1,895 armored vehicles, 335 artillery systems...
GENEVA – The civilian death toll in Russia-Ukraine war has climbed to 1,766 people with 2,383 others injured, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has said. In its daily update, the OHCHR said most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons, including shelling from […...
