Sidon, Lebanon (AFP): At least six people were killed Sunday in clashes in south Lebanon’s restive Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp, said Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas’s Fatah movement and a source at the camp. The fighting between Fatah and Islamists in the camp, which erupted overnight, killed a Fatah military leader a...
GENEVA (AA): For the first time in 20 years, a global decrease in the number of human trafficking victims was seen due to COVID-19 restrictions, according to a report from UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). “Pandemic-related restrictions on movement and business operations may have at least temporarily reduced some forms of traffickin...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s parliament on Tuesday approved new anti-narcotics legislation, removing capital punishment for drug trafficking convicts. The maximum punishment for a convict of a drug-related crime will be life imprisonment, whereas the minimum will be a six-month jail term. “Anti-narcotics bill passed, removing capital pu...
HUDUR, Somalia (AA): Somali authorities arrested security officials, including a senior commander, after a suicide bomber on Monday targeted a military training facility in the country’s capital Mogadishu, an official said on Wednesday. The bomber blew himself up inside the Jaalle Siyad military training facility and killed over 30 people, inc...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Authorities in Saudi Arabia seized more than six million narcotic pills concealed in sweets and nuts from a shipment coming from Oman and arrested a Saudi and a Syrian national on the charges of carrying them, local media reported on Saturday. More than six million Captagon tablets hidden in sweets, citrus, and […]
BAGHDAD, Iraq – Iraqi security forces announced Monday the seizure of nearly one million Captagon pills in the possession of a foreign drug trafficker. According to a statement, security forces seized large quantities of the drug hidden in a truck en route to a northern province. The statement did not name the nationality of the [&hellip...
Khuiratta, Pakistan (AFP): After spending weeks in Libya trying to reach Europe illegally, Muhammad Naeem Butt turned back — abandoning a journey that has already cost hundreds of Pakistani lives this summer. Shovelling sand onto a truck surrounded by Pakistan’s Kashmir valley, he says he ended his bid for a better life when an ove...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s parliament has approved new anti-narcotics legislation, removing capital punishment for drug trafficking convicts. “Anti-narcotics bill passed, removing capital punishment,” Commerce Minister Syed Naveed Qamar tweeted. The legislation “Control of Narcotics Substances Act, 2023” was passed during a...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s defense minister has said “every citizen” needs arms due to a “deteriorating” security situation in several parts of the country. Khawaja Asif made these remarks while endorsing a demand from several lawmakers during a parliamentary session in Islamabad on Monday for the issuance...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): A policeman was killed in an explosion in a mosque in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, the police said. The explosion occurred in the Khyber tribal district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan, Shoukat Abbas, head of the police’s counter terrorism cell, said. He said an investigation had begun ...
