Najaf, Iraq (AFP): Funerals were held Tuesday in Iraq for 78 people killed by the Islamic State group in 2014 and uncovered in a mass grave. DNA testing was used to identify the remains of hundreds of people slain by IS after their discovery in 2017 at the grave site on the outskirts of Mosul, […]
NEW DELHI (AA): India’s northeastern state of Manipur is reeling from ethnic violence which has affected thousands of people. Sixty people have died in the unrest, while 231 people have been injured and around 1,700 houses burnt. In addition, 20,000 people have been taken to safe places, while work on shifting another 10,000 people to [&...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Thousands of people continue to remain displaced as tense calm prevails in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur following deadly ethnic violence that left over 50 people dead last week. The violence followed a Manipur High Court ruling on April 19 that directed the state government to submit recommendations for the [&helli...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry late on Sunday confirmed a cyberattack on its information website but denied reports about the leak of documents and data. Nasser Kanani, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, said the ministry’s information website was hacked, but “necessary measures” were taken immediately to rest...
Amritsar, India (AFP): A second blast in 36 hours rocked the area around the Sikh holy site of the Golden Temple in India’s Amritsar city on Monday, police said. Authorities said that there were no casualties or damage reported in the incident, with police investigating the possible cause. The late Saturday night blast, which police [&he...
London, United Kingdom (AFP): A UK court on Friday jailed Nigeria’s former deputy Senate president for nine years and eight months, following his landmark conviction for plotting to harvest a man’s kidney for his sick daughter. In the first UK case of its kind, judge Jeremy Johnson handed Ike Ekweremadu, 60, the prison sentence for...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli settlers set fire to a Palestinian house in the West Bank, the latest attack on Palestinian properties, according to a local official. “The entire house was destroyed in the fire,” Ghassan Daghlas, who is in charge of monitoring settlement building in the northern West Bank, told journalists. He said no [&hel...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP): Saudi Arabia announced on Tuesday the seizure of more than 12 million amphetamine pills hidden in a shipment of pomegranate fruit, amid a crackdown on the widely used captagon drug. Authorities thwarted “an attempt to smuggle 12,729,000 tablets of amphetamine” concealed in the shipment passing through th...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Kosovo police confiscated cryptocurrency machines Friday in an operation in a northern municipality where Serbs make up the majority of the population. Economy Minister Artane Rizvanolli said 174 illegal devices were confiscated. “Failure to pay electricity bills encourages such illegal activities. Therefore, Serb...
Rabat, Morocco (AFP): Three defendants accused of repeatedly raping a Moroccan girl pleaded not guilty Thursday as the case went to appeal, after their light sentences shocked the country. The victim was only 11 when she was “repeatedly raped” and became pregnant, according to rights groups in the North African kingdom. The legal t...
