OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Spanish authorities are investigating a machete attack in Algeciras that left one clergyman dead and four injured on Wednesday night. The attacker, who has been identified as Yassine Kanza, was arrested immediately after his rampage. He is a 25-year-old Moroccan said to have been living in Spain irregularly as a squa...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – A group of 27 Fulani herders was killed Wednesday and several others were wounded when a bomb exploded in the village of Rukubi on the border between Nasarawa and Benue states in central Nigeria, police said. Nasarawa state police spokesman Ramhan Nansel said the local police command was working in collaboration [&he...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories (AFP): An Israeli raid on the occupied West Bank’s Jenin refugee camp Thursday killed nine Palestinians, including an elderly woman, Palestinian officials said, also accusing the forces of using tear gas inside a hospital children’s ward. The death toll rose to “nine martyrs including an elderly...
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): The judge leading the investigation into Beirut’s deadly 2020 port blast refused Wednesday to step down from the probe, rejecting charges brought against him by Lebanon’s top prosecutor in the politically charged case. Investigative judge Tarek Bitar defied Lebanon’s entrenched ruling elite this week by...
ANKARA (AA) – Egypt’s Al-Azhar University has called for a boycott of Dutch and Swedish products amid anger over the desecration of the Quran in the two European countries. On Sunday, Edwin Wagensveld, a far-right Dutch politician and leader of the Islamophobic group Pegida, carried out a despicable act of desecration and filmed it for [...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least five people including two high school students and a woman were wounded when a mortar targeting Somalia’s presidential palace rocked the Somali capital Mogadishu on Tuesday, an official said. Osman Mohamed, a security official in Mogadishu, told Anadolu over the phone that several mortar shells that the...
NEW DELHI (AA) – A local court in the western Indian state of Gujarat acquitted 22 people accused of killing 17 Muslims during the 2002 communal riots due to lack of evidence, a defense lawyer said on Wednesday. The additional district court in Halol, Gujarat state, acquitted 22 people, eight of whom have died, on […]
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The World Health Organization said Tuesday that one of its doctors had been abducted in Mali, adding that the motivation behind an attack on his car was unclear. “We deplore the abduction of WHO colleague Dr Mahamadou Diawara, who was taken by unidentified assailants from his car on January 23, in the […...
Mogadishu, Somalia (AFP): At least six people were killed in an attack by Al-Shabaab militants at the mayor’s office in central Mogadishu on Sunday, police said. A suicide bomber set off a huge blast that tore through a building near the office complex with gunfire starting afterwards, Somali police spokesman Sadik Dudishe said at the [&...
Aleppo, Syria (AFP): A building collapsed in Syria’s war-damaged second city of Aleppo, killing 16 people including children, on Sunday. Much of Aleppo was destroyed during Syria’s conflict that began nearly 12 years ago and left many of the remaining structures in a decrepit state. “The number of victims of the residential b...
