ATHENS (AA): At least 29 people were injured Wednesday, including four in serious condition, in a massive explosion that rocked central Paris, according to media reports. Army troops, police, 230 firefighters and other emergency services, rushed to the scene in the Fifth Arrondissement, according to broadcaster BFMTV, which said at least two p...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA): Multiple casualties are feared after two huge bomb blasts rocked Somalia’s southwestern town of Bardhere in the Gedo region on Wednesday. The explosions targeted a base housing the Somali national army and Ethiopia’s forces serving under the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), according to State Minist...
Muscat, Oman (AFP): Iran’s top diplomat arrived Wednesday in Oman where he is to meet senior officials, a day after discussing his country’s nuclear programme with his Qatari counterpart in Doha. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian is on a tour of the Gulf that will see the Iranian foreign minister also making stops later in Kuwait and the [&...
ISTANBUL (AA): Two people were killed and 31 others injured in a train derailment in eastern Tunisia, according to local media on Wednesday. A driver and his assistant were killed when a train on the Tunis-Gabes route derailed late Tuesday, state radio reported. The cause of the accident was not yet clear. Tunisia has seen […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces in the West Bank city of Tubas on Tuesday, according to the Health Ministry. A ministry statement said that another Palestinian was injured by Israeli fire. The casualties occurred when a special Israeli force staged a raid into the city, witnesses said. Early Tuesday, [&h...
SANAA, Yemen (AA): A flight carrying pilgrims from Yemen’s Houthi rebel group has left the capital Sanaa for Saudi Arabia for Hajj pilgrimage for the first time since 2014. A number of Houthi leaders are on board, including Deputy Minister of Guidance Allama Fouad Naji and Houthi negotiator Yahya al-Razami, the Houthi-run Saba news agency [&he...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank killed five Palestinians on Monday and injured 91 others. The sound of gunfire was heard across Jenin as wounded Palestinians continued to arrive by ambulance at the northern West Bank city’s Ibn Sina hospital, an AFP journalist said. Crowds gathered outside J...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): An attacker fatally stabbed a security guard on Monday outside Brazil’s embassy in Tunis before being shot and arrested, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said. The guard “was wounded by a sharp object” wielded “by a person he was questioning over the reason for his presence in the perimeter of the em...
JERUSALEM (AA): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that his government will advance plans to develop a natural gas field off the coast of the Gaza Strip. “In the framework of existing efforts between Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority (PA), the [Israeli] government is moving forward with developing the Gaza Marine g...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): The Palestinian Authority (PA) will boycott a meeting with Israel on Monday in protest against new settlement plans in the occupied West Bank. “We decided to boycott the meeting of the Joint Economic Committee between the two parties [Israel and PA], which was scheduled to be held tomorrow,” Hussein Al-She...
