ANKARA (AA) – The global chemical weapons watchdog on Friday said probes had found the Assad regime responsible for a 2018 chlorine attack on Douma city which left 43 people dead. A report released by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said there are “reasonable grounds to believe” that an Assad regime [&hell...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The World Health Organization said Tuesday that one of its doctors had been abducted in Mali, adding that the motivation behind an attack on his car was unclear. “We deplore the abduction of WHO colleague Dr Mahamadou Diawara, who was taken by unidentified assailants from his car on January 23, in the […...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Duax Ngakuru, an alleged crime kingpin wanted for leading one of Australia’s drug gangs, has been arrested in Istanbul, Turkish authorities have confirmed. Turkish police teams raided a villa in the Sariyer district, where Ngakuru, the ringleader of the Comanchero motorcycle club, was caught on January 13. After the...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – A Mozambican national, accused of orchestrating kidnappings for ransom in his home country, has been arrested in South Africa, according to police sources. Esmael Malude Ramos Nangy, 50, who was wanted for kidnapping cases in Mozambique was arrested by a multidisciplinary security team, including Interpol, over the we...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – More than one dozen civilians were killed late Monday by Boko Haram in northeastern Nigeria, according to media reports. It attacked herders guarding cattle in a pasture near the of village Airamne in Borno state, said reports. Seventeen herders were killed in the fight and their cattle were taken away. Boko [&helli...
PARIS (AA) – A 69-year-old French man who is suspected of shooting three people dead in Paris has confessed to having an extreme hatred of foreigners, local media outlets said Sunday, a day after he was transferred to a police psychiatric unit for evaluation. The man was later discharged from the unit and retaken into […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called Wednesday for a restructured European Parliament amid an ongoing corruption case involving a high-ranking European parliamentarian. “The swamp should be drained,” Orban told reporters at an annual press conference, adding that Hungarians want the parliament to consi...
ANKARA (AA) – At least five people were killed and another injured at a condominium unit in a Toronto suburb on Sunday evening, according to police sources. Police found a “horrendous scene where numerous victims were deceased” after responding to an active shooting call at the building in Vaughan, a city just north of the […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Twenty-six prisoners fled from a prison in western Lebanon on Monday, according to local media. The prison break took place in Bekaa Valley, with most of the escapees convicted of drug and weapons trafficking, the National News Agency reported. Lebanese authorities have yet to issue an official statement on the prison [&...
New Delhi, India (AFP): Scores of activists and campaigners held a candlelight vigil on Friday for Jyoti Singh, the young woman who was brutally gang-raped and murdered on a New Delhi bus 10 years ago. The horrific crime appalled India and the world and highlighted the scourge of sexual crimes against women. The crowd at […]
