JERUSALEM (AA) – Palestinians staged a rally in occupied East Jerusalem on Friday to demand justice for slain journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Abu Akleh, 51, a Palestinian-American journalist working for the Doha-based Al Jazeera network, was shot dead on May 11 while covering an Israeli military raid near the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied [...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina is set to bid farewell on July 20 to 16 more victims of the Prijedor massacre who have recently been identified. The Institute for Missing Persons said the identifications of the 1992 massacre victims are 30 years late. Getting proper identifications involves unearthing bodies from mass grav...
Rabat, Morocco – (AFP) At least 23 migrants who died last month in a mass attempt to enter the Spanish enclave of Melilla from Morocco likely “suffocated”, Morocco’s state-backed CNDH rights group said on Wednesday. The death toll after around 2,000 people, many from Sudan, stormed the frontier on June 24 was the worst ...
PARIS (AA) – The Council of Europe’s Human Rights Commission has called on Spain to ensure that humane border control measures are conducted which do not lead to rights violations after dozens of migrants died last month while trying to scale a border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla. In the aftermath […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli settlers chopped down hundreds of olive trees in the occupied West Bank, a local Palestinian official said on Monday. “Settlers destroyed 200 olive trees and 250 fruit trees in the towns of Al-Mughayer and Turmus Aya near Ramallah,” Mohamed Elwan, coordinator of the Palestinian Farmers Association, told the s...
HEBRON, Palestine (AA) – Unlike the past six years, Eid al-Adha this year brought a special sense of joy to the family of Osaid Abu Khdair. Abu Khdair, 34, from the town of Surif near Hebron in the occupied West Bank, was released by Israel earlier this month, days before the start of Eid Al-Adha, […]
PARIS (AA) – In a first of its kind, the Catholic Church in France has paid financial reparations to six victims of child sexual abuse in the church, according to local media. The fund for solidarity and the fight against sexual assault on minors (SALEM), set up by the Conference of Bishops of France, has […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has said that at least 200 children in Somalia have died of malnutrition since January, with the country witnessing “catastrophic food insecurity” for the first time since 2017. Drought conditions have deteriorated follow...
PARIS (AA) – One person has been indicted by a court in Paris and nine others may soon be charged over the deaths of 27 migrants in the English Channel in November 2021. French police arrested 13 men and two women for their involvement in what the UN migration agency had described as the “worst […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Twenty bodies of people believed to be migrants were found in Libya’s desert close to the border with Chad, according to the Libyan authorities on Wednesday. In a statement, the Ambulance Service said the bodies were found inside a pickup truck 310 kilometers south of Kufra city. It said the truck […]
