Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The World Organization against Torture (OMCT) on Monday accused the Chadian authorities of summary executions and torture after 50 people died during clashes in the capital N’Djamena and the south. The Geneva-based NGO listed “serious human rights violations” during protests on Thursday against a mo...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 10 soldiers were killed and around 50 others wounded when suspected terrorists attacked an army base in Burkina Faso’s Sahel region on Monday, the army said. The attack targeted the 14th Inter-Arms Regiment in Djibo. A provisional assessment showed that 10 soldiers were killed in the fighting and about [&he...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces killed at least five Palestinians during raids in the occupied West Bank on Monday. Four Palestinians were killed in the city of Nablus and another in Nabi Salih, near Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The ministry said 22 others were wounded. According to a report by Palest...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian NGO has documented over 5,300 arrests by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank this year. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said around 4,700 Palestinians are still in Israeli custody, including 30 women and 190 minors. “The suffering of captives is escalating amid rising numbers of ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and eight others wounded when al-Shabaab attacked a popular hotel in the southern port city of Kismayo on Sunday, police said. Mahad Abdi, a regional police officer in Kismayo, said the attack started with bombing followed by gunfire after al-Shabaab men stormed Tawakal Hotel, a...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s nuclear energy agency said Sunday an email server of one of its subsidiaries was hacked from a foreign country amid ongoing protests over the death of a young woman in police custody. In a statement, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) confirmed the intrusion into an email server of […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A Pakistani soldier was killed in what the army said was a terrorist attack from Afghanistan’s soil. The attack – latest in a string of ambushes – occurred in the restive North Waziristan tribal district, which sits near the border with Afghanistan and has long been a hotbed of militancy. “Pakistan [&hellip...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel and Lebanon will sign a US-brokered agreement on their maritime border demarcation on Thursday, US mediator Amos Hochstein has said. “We’re going to have a deal,” Hochstein told CNN’s “Face the Nation” program. “We’re going to sign it hopefully this Thursday.” According to Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, the signing cerem...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Guinea’s military government has agreed on a shorter timeline for a transition to elections of 24 months, down from 36, a West African bloc said Saturday. In a statement, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) said it agreed with the junta leaders on a 24-month timeline after discussions with [&helli...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Prime Minister of Libya’s Tripoli-based unity government, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh, has rejected an agreement with East Libya-based parliament on changing heads of the country’s sovereign positions. On Friday, Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh and Khaled al-Mishri, head of the Tripoli-based High Council of State, which acts as a...
