RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A 17-year-old Palestinian was killed in an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, the Health Ministry said. Another young Palestinian was injured when Israeli forces pushed into the city of Jenin in the northern West Bank, the ministry said in a statement. Jani Abu Jokha, the director […]...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – At least four irregular migrants died and 10 others went missing after their boat sank off the eastern coast of Tunisia, Tunisia’s official TAP news agency reported Thursday. Search and rescue efforts were launched after the boat sank off the coast of Sfax city, said TAP, citing a statement by the […]
DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Eleven soldiers were killed and 20 injured in an attack in eastern Burkina Faso, the army announced Thursday. The military headquarters in the Madjoari department of Kompienga province in eastern Burkina Faso was directly targeted by artillery and gunfire, according to the army statement. Following the attack, 15 te...
ANKARA – North Korea has reported over 232,000 more cases of “fever” and six related fatalities over the past day in a suspected COVID-19 outbreak. The figures were released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). However, so far, North Korea has refused to link the rising cases with coronavirus-like symptoms to t...
ANKARA – At least 229 children have been killed and 424 others injured so far in the war with Russia, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Office has said. Children in the eastern Donetsk, north-central Kyiv, and northeastern Kharkiv regions have been the most affected in Ukraine, the office said in a statement. Russia’s daily bombin...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army detained seven Palestinian students Tuesday who are studying at Birzeit University in the central occupied West Bank. The Asra Media Office, a Palestinian NGO that documents Israeli arrests, said the students are activists and heads of the Islamic Bloc, the Hamas group’s students’ w...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Nigerian Vice President Yemi Osinbajo commiserated with the victims of a gas explosion near a private secondary school in the Sabon Gari area of northern Kano state, where officials confirmed nine fatalities. The National Emergency Management Agency confirmed that nine bodies have been recovered so far from the rubbl...
DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Rescue workers in Burkina Faso found no survivors in a flooded zinc mine’s rescue chamber after eight miners became stranded 32 days ago due to heavy rains, the government said Tuesday. The miners were not found in the room. Rescue teams had taken a long time to reach the room due […]
DOUALA, Cameroon – At least five people have been arrested in N’Djamena, Chad’s largest city and capital, following sporadic but violent protests against France over its alleged backing of the country’s military junta, the government said Monday. The Wakit-tamma coalition, a civil society group, held an authorized demonstrati...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye has killed 10 more PKK fighters in northern Iraq, the Turkish National Defense Ministry reported on Sunday. “We continue to put locks on the nests of terror,” the ministry said on Twitter. The PKK men were killed by Turkish forces under the country’s Operation Claw-Lock, raising the total to 95. Th...
