NEW DELHI (AA) – The Indian Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear two separate pleas challenging the government of western Gujarat state’s remission of sentences of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang rape case. Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader Subhashini Ali, independent journalist Revati Laul, and Trinamool Congress party la...
Karbala, Iraq (AFP): The bodies of two pilgrims were pulled from an Iraqi shrine Monday, two days after its partial collapse in a landslide, taking the overall toll to seven dead, rescuers said. Emergency workers were trying to remove the rubble and debris from the shrine known as Qattarat al-Imam Ali near the Shiite holy […]
Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP): The families of Sierra Leoneans who died in protests against the spiraling cost of living arrived at a morgue in the capital Freetown on Monday to identify their loved ones. A small crowd gathered outside the Connaught Hospital, where officials said the remains of 31 people were waiting to be identified. […...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces on Monday demolished nine Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, according to witnesses. Israeli bulldozers razed eight houses under construction in the town of Al-Daouk near Jericho and a house in the town of Farasin near Jenin, the witnesses said. Israeli forces cited lack of building permits f...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron will pay an official visit to Algeria this week, the Algerian and French presidencies have announced. In a phone call, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and Macron discussed bilateral cooperation and the agenda of the upcoming visit. Macron thanked Tebboune for the invitation...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somali security forces fighting al-Shabaab militants inside a popular hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu ended the siege after nearly 30 hours of operations, a security official said on Sunday. Security forces eliminated al-Shabaab militants and ended the siege which had started on Friday evening in Hayat hot...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – El Shafee Elsheikh, the ISIS man who was part of a group known as the “Beatles,” was sentenced on Friday by a US court to eight consecutive life terms in prison for torturing and murdering four American nationals. “With today’s verdict, we finally have a bit of justice,” Diane Foley, the [&he...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Relentless rains and subsequent floods killed another 33 people across Pakistan over the past two days, , officials and local media reported on Saturday. Hundreds of thousands of people have been directly affected by flooding caused by torrential downpours in all four provinces, the northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, an...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – Four Palestinians were injured by Israeli army gunfire during clashes in the occupied West Bank on Friday. Israeli forces used rubber-coated bullets and tear gas canisters to disperse a Palestinian protest against settlement building in the town of Kafr Qaddum in the northern West Bank. The four injured protester...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories – (AFP): An unarmed Palestinian man returning from morning prayer was killed by Israeli forces during a raid in the north of the occupied West Bank. Salah Sawafta, 58, “died of critical wounds, sustained by live bullets from the occupation (Israeli military) in the head, in Tubas this morning,̶...
