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Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): Paul and Tracy Naggear have lived in grief since the massive explosion that tore through the Lebanese capital in 2020, killing their three-year-old daughter, and their anger boils over the stalled investigation. The August 4 mega-blast, blamed on a fire that ignited tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertiliser haphazardly store...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – The Burkinabe army acknowledged on Wednesday that several civilians were killed in airstrikes, which it called “unfortunate and unintentional,” and said the collateral damage occurred during military operations against suspected terrorist groups in the country’s east on Monday. The Burkina Faso Ar...
ATHENS (AA) – The office of elected Muslim mufti in a region of Greece with a large minority Muslim Turkish population has cried foul at a move said to violate the minority’s rights guaranteed by treaty. “According to the Treaty of Lausanne, while the Turkish minority in Western Thrace has the right to elect their […]
BRUSSELS (AA) – The NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR) stands ready to intervene if needed, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told Serbian President Alexandar Vucic on Wednesday. The two had a phone call in which they discussed “tensions in northern Kosovo,” Stoltenberg said on Twitter. He called on all sides to “engage cons...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria on Wednesday justified the purchase and donation of $3.5 million in vehicles to neighboring Niger Republic. Finance Minister Zainab Ahmed said the president has the right to approve the purchase after assessing the security situation in such a friendly country. “Nigerians have the right to question. Pr...
TEHRAN / WASHINGTON (AA) – Iran and the US have confirmed that they are sending delegations to Vienna to resume indirect talks aimed at reviving the 2015 nuclear deal. Rob Malley, the US’s special envoy for Iran, said he is travelling to Vienna to continue talks on the basis of EU foreign policy head Josep […]
PARIS (AA) – French student Sebastien Raoult has been sent to jail in Morocco on suspicion of committing cyber crimes against US companies. Raoult, 21, who also goes by the name of Sezyo, is a computer science student from Alsace and faces 116 years behind bars if he is found guilty. He was detained by […]
ANKARA (AA) – The Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec) for multiple potential collaborations in Saudi Arabia. The MoU cements the bilateral ties between the parties and builds cooperation in several areas including refining and petrochemi...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Syria will hold local elections on September 18, according to the state news agency SANA. The date for the polls was set by a decree issued by the regime of Bashar al-Assad to elect members of the country’s local councils. Syria has 14 provinces some of which are controlled by armed opposition […]
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – Azerbaijan said it launched a retaliatory operation on Wednesday against Armenian forces in Nagorno Karabakh after Armenia opened fire and killed an Azerbaijani soldier, according to its defense ministry. “On the morning of August 3, members of illegal Armenian armed detachments in the territory of Azerbaija...
