CAIRO (AP) — A U.N. spokeswoman says at least 15 African migrants drowned when their boat capsized off the Libyan coast. The migrants were on a rubber boat, carrying at least 110 migrants, that embarked from the Libyan coastal town of Zawiya on Friday. The boat started to sink early Sunday. The tragedy is the […]
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said on February 27 that Iran is likely behind an explosion earlier this week on an Israeli-owned cargo vessel in the Gulf of Oman. The MV Helios Ray, a vehicle carrier, was traveling from the Saudi port of Dammam to Singapore when it was struck by an explosion on February […]
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Gunmen in Nigeria on Saturday released 42 people, including 27 students, who were kidnapped from a boarding school last week in the north-central state of Niger, the state’s governor said.
Issued on: 26/02/2021 – 15:18 Advertising Read more Washington (AFP) President Joe Biden said Friday that the United States will “never” accept Russia’s annexation of part of Ukraine seven years ago. “The United States does not and will never recognize Russia’s purported annexation of the peninsula, and we will stand with Ukraine against Russia’s aggressive […]
By Adam Vaughan and Ibrahim Sawal A man travelling on the London Underground railway system SOPA Images/LightRocket via Gett Mandatory wearing of face masks in shops and on public transport will probably stay in place in the UK until at least 2022, predict a majority of infectious disease experts polled by New Scientist. Expectations are […]
A State Department spokesman has said the United States will hold Iran “responsible” for a rocket barrage on February 22 that targeted the U.S. Embassy in the Iraqi capital. But it said it won’t “lash out” in response. Iraq’s army said earlier that there were no casualties when the embassy, within Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green […]
Issued on: 22/02/2021 – 19:14 Advertising Read more Tehran (AFP) Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Monday that the Islamic republic could boost uranium enrichment to 60 percent if needed, vowing to “not back down on the nuclear issue”. That would be far above the 3.67 percent limit Iran had accepted under the 2015 […]
Beijing has rejected what it called “slanderous attacks” against China about living conditions for Muslim Uyghurs and other minorities in its western region of Xinjiang. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva that Uyghurs and other minorities living in Xinjiang enjoy freedom of religion and labor rights. While […]
Authorities in Iran said on February 21 that an imprisoned activist from the Sufi Gonabadi dervish religious minority died days after being hospitalized for what they say was poisoning caused by drug consumption. Behnam Mahjubi had been jailed after taking part in a demonstration along with other members of the Gonabadi order in 2018 and […]
Issued on: 20/02/2021 – 07:32 Advertising Read more New Delhi (AFP) Indian cricket superstar Virat Kohli has revealed that he struggled with depression and felt like the “loneliest guy in the world” after failing with the bat during a tour of England in 2014. Kohli, one of the highest-paid athletes in the world with a […]