BERLIN (AA) – German police arrested an Iranian citizen on suspicion of planning a chemical terror attack, authorities said on Sunday. The 32-year-old man was arrested in the western city of Castrop-Rauxel after special police forces stormed his home. “The accused is suspected of having prepared a serious act of violence,” Dusseldorf pro...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA) – A collision of two buses in Senegal early Sunday claimed the lives of 38 people and injured 87 others, the fire brigade said. The accident occurred near the town of Kaffrine on the No. 1 national road at 3.15 am local time (0315 GMT), according to Col. Cheikh Fall, in charge […]
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Gunmen attacked the Igueben railway station in Nigeria’s Edo state late Saturday and abducted scores of passengers, police said. Police spokesman Chidi Nwabuzor said a number of passengers were also injured as gunmen with AK-47 rifles invaded the train station and shot sporadically. Security forces visited the ...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The final stage of Sudan’s political process is set to kick off on Sunday, according to the country’s trilateral mechanism body. In a statement, the Trilateral Mechanism said the final stage of the political process aims to reach “a final and just political agreement”. The Trilateral Mechanism comprises the African Union...
Ara, Israel (AFP): “The Israeli passport is the most despised in the world. It is a nationality that does not honour its bearer,” says Arab-Israeli Karim Younis, who was released after spending 40 years in prison for killing a soldier, and greeted by hundreds of supporters in his home village of Ara in northern Israel. […]
LONDON (AA) – Britain’s Prince Harry has revealed in an upcoming book of his memoirs that he killed 25 people as an Apache helicopter pilot during his second tour in Afghanistan, a British daily reported. Prince Harry’s claim in the book, titled Spare, which will be available at bookstores in the UK next week, came […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The Pakistan army killed at least 11 militants in an operation in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near the border with Afghanistan on Thursday. In a statement late Thursday, the Pakistan army said security forces conducted an operation in Wana town of South Waziristan district along the Afghan border and ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli authorities on Thursday released a Palestinian prisoner after he had spent 40 years in jail, according to the Palestinian Prisoners Society. Karim Younis from the town of Ara in northern Israel was arrested on Jan. 6, 1983, and was sentenced to imprisonment for life, which was later set for 40 […...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The Afghan Taliban on Thursday claimed that they have wiped out a network of ISIS involved in last month’s attacks on Pakistan’s Embassy and a Chinese hotel in Kabul. In a statement, the Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the Taliban forces carried out an operation on Wednesday against the ISIS in Kabul […]...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least 20 people were killed, including security personnel and civilians, and several others wounded in twin suicide car bomb attacks in Somalia’s central town of Mahas, according to officials. Bishar Abdullahi, a security official in Hiran province, confirmed the fatalities that included security officials. H...
