Madyan, Pakistan (AFP): Misery is mounting for millions trapped by the worst floods in Pakistan’s history, which have have submerged a third of Pakistan and claimed at least 1,300 lives. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has called it “a monsoon on steroids” as he launched an international appeal on August 30 for $160 mil...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian detainee has died in Israeli custody after his health deteriorated, according to a local NGO. Mousa Haroun Abu Mahameed, 40, passed away at the Assaf Harofeh hospital, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement. Abu Mahameed from the West Bank city of Bethlehem was arrested by Israeli forces [...
Paris, France (AFP): Rich carbon polluters should feel “moral pressure” to help fund climate-vulnerable nations wracked by weather extremes such as Pakistan, where monstrous flooding has caused devastation, diplomats and observers have said. Torrential monsoon rains have killed more than a thousand, left a third of Pakistan under w...
Nablus, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Doctors in the occupied West Bank are struggling to save Palestinians from permanent disability after having been being shot in an upsurge of violence resulting from incessant Israeli raids targeting Palestinians. At Rafidia Surgical Hospital in Nablus in the northern West Bank, a teenager with bandaged l...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Amid reports of gunfights between the Myanmar army and a rebel group that have been ongoing for more than a week, some mortar shells again landed inside Bangladesh on Saturday. Two shells fell inside no man’s land in the northeastern district of Bandarban, according to official sources. However, they caused no [&...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least 20 civilians were killed in an attack in central Somalia by al-Shabaab on a convoy carrying food supplies, officials said on Saturday. The victims in the attack, which took place near the district of Mahas in the Hiran region, included drivers and passengers in the convoy, with the members […]
ANKARA (AA) – A fire completely burnt down a mosque in northern France late Friday night, local media reported, with authorities suspecting an arson attack. The incident took place at the Rambouillet mosque in the Yvelines department of the Ile-de-France region, according to Le Parisien newspaper. An investigation has been launched to as...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Friday killed a Palestinian man for allegedly stabbing a soldier in southern occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. It said that the Israeli forces shot dead the man at the Beit Einoun junction, north of Hebron city. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on Twitter [&hellip...
Geneva, Switzerland (AFP): The United Nations has released a bombshell report about serious human rights abuses in China’s Xinjiang region, saying torture allegations were credible and citing possible crimes against humanity. The long-awaited report detailed a string of rights violations against Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities in the...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian security forces killed three gunmen from Jund al-Khilafa (Caliphate Soldiers) in the Kasserine province, the country’s Defense Ministry said on Friday. “Joint units of the army, the (gendarmerie) and the national security were able to eliminate three terrorists affiliated with the Jund al-Khilafa orga...
