Monthly Archive:: June 2015
Middle East
GAZA: Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza began receiving $100 payouts from Qatar on Monday, the latest tranche of funds under an informal deal between the territory’s
Read More
Middle East
JERUSALEM: Hollywood star Gal Gadot has leapt to defend a fellow actress who was chided by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for challenging his party’s treatment of Arab
Read More
Middle East
JERUSALEM: Hollywood star Gal Gadot has leapt to defend a fellow actress who was chided by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for challenging his party’s treatment of Arab
Read More
Middle East
Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has said he will not seek a fifth term and announced the delay of the country's presidential polls amid mass protests against his reelection
Read More
Middle East
Negotiations aimed at resolving an almost-year-long crisis in Nicaragua have stalled as country's opposition walked out of talks on Sunday. The Civil Alliance is calling on the government
Read More
Middle East
Turkey's economy fell into its first recession in a decade at the end of last year, official data has shown, as the country heads towards key local elections
Read More
World
(CNN)A close aide to leading Rwandan opposition leader Victoire Ingabire has been found dead in the country, a party statement said.Anselme Mutuyimana, 30, was found in the Gishwatu
Read More
World
(CNN)Zinedine Zidane has made a surprise return to coach Real Madrid less than a year after leaving the Spanish giants in the wake of one of its great
Read More
World
(CNN)A police officer in Paris died after her colleague shot her in the head, in what police union leader Christophe Crepin called "a tragedy due to a mistake
Read More
Middle East
Nigerians have voted in governorship and state assembly elections, the second poll in a fortnight, as monitors expressed concerns about political violence, vote-buying and an increased military presence.
Read More
Middle East
On December 31, 2018, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina secured her third consecutive term with a landslide victory in Bangladesh's national election, raising concerns that the south Asian country
Read More
Middle East
There is an uncertainty for the one and a half million Britons, who live all over the European Union. Many who have made a new life overseas, say
Read More
Middle East
TUNIS: Forces from eastern Libya who have swept through the south and taken control of remaining oilfields in recent weeks have now reinforced a base in the centre
Read More
Middle East
TUNIS: Forces from eastern Libya who have swept through the south and taken control of remaining oilfields in recent weeks have now reinforced a base in the centre
Read More
Middle East
The Human Rights Information and Training Center in Yemen exposed thousands of violations and crimes committed by the Iran-backed Houthi militia in Taiz since the start of Yemen’s
Read More
Middle East
Embroiled in a major political crisis, Venezuela has been witnessing another tussle for the last two days with millions of people going without power. President Nicolas Maduro and
Read More
Middle East
Rights groups are criticising the United States government for storing a database of journalists covering asylum seekers from Central America. Leaked documents show that US Customs and Border
Read More
Middle East
The United Kingdom's Home Secretary Sajid Javid has faced criticism following the death of the baby son of a British teenager stripped of her citizenship for joining the
Read More
Middle East
NEAR BAGHOUZ: Salwa Sayed Al-Omar spent years as a Yazidi prisoner of Daesh, but she escaped its clutches this week, fleeing its last populated enclave in east Syria
Read More
Middle East
The baby son of a British teenager stripped of her citizenship for joining ISIL in Syria has died, according to a spokesperson for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Mustafa
Read More
Middle East
India and Pakistan have retreated from the brink of possible war but an information conflict still rages over their tit-for-tat air strikes and an aerial dogfight between the
Read More
Middle East
Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has ordered the release of all women protesters detained during nationwide demonstrations that have rocked his rule since December. Bashir made the announcement on
Read More
World
(CNN)Satellite images suggest that North Korea could be preparing to launch a missile or space rocket in the near future, analysts said Friday, signaling a potential blow to
Read More
World
Paris (CNN)Recent weeks have seen black swastikas scrawled across portraits of Auschwitz survivor, Simone Veil; 96 tombs at a Jewish cemetery defaced in eastern France; and the words,
Read More
World
(CNN)The newborn son of British ISIS bride Shamima Begum has died, the Kurdish Red Crescent confirmed to CNN.Begum, who left east London to join ISIS in Syria when
Read More
Middle East
CAIRO: The chairman of the Arab Council for Childhood and Development (ACCD), Saudi Prince Abdul Aziz bin Talal, has praised the role of the council in monitoring and
Read More
Middle East
DUBAI: The centuries-old sectarian Sunni-Shiite divide is arguably so entrenched that many — even Muslims — would be hard-placed to pinpoint the source of the largest cultural dispute
Read More
