ALGIERS: Algeria's newly-appointed prime minister has started talks to form a new government, state media reported on Sunday, in a move designed to placate protesters demanding President Abdel Aziz Bouteflika and his inner circle step down.The discussions began as some workers at Algeria's biggest gas field staged a protest against "extending the fourth term", an energy…
JERUSALEM: An Israeli court on Sunday ordered the temporary closure of a side building at a highly sensitive Jerusalem holy site that has been the source of tensions in recent weeks. The Jerusalem magistrates court said the building known as the Golden Gate at the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount,…
JERUSALEM: Israel’s rescue service says a pair of shooting attacks in the West Bank has wounded three Israelis, including one critically. Eli Bin, the head of Magen David Adom, says Sunday’s attacks were at the entrance to the Ariel settlement, southwest of the Palestinian city of Nablus. The Israeli military said two attacks took place…
JERUSALEM: At least one person was killed and two others were wounded in a shooting attack in the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Israel Radio said. The incident began when a Palestinian grabbed a weapon from an Israeli at an intersection near the Jewish settlement of Ariel and then shot him, Channel 13 television said.…
Yemen’s national army killed 25 Houthis in clashes west of Taiz province, national press agency SPA reported Saturday. The army, backed by coalition jets, freed Al-Maksab valley and Al-Mathhabah mountain from Houthi militia. Meanwhile, Iranian-backed Houthi militants exhausted all rounds of talks sponsored by the United Nationas, from Geneva to Stockholm, Yemen’s minister of information…
AMMAN: “One of the reasons I decided to live in New Zealand is that they don’t pay attention to who you are, and they treat you as a human being. You can do what you want.” These are the words of 36-year-old Jordanian Wasseim Alsati, a barber who made Christchurch his home.He is injured and…
AMMAN: “One of the reasons I decided to live in New Zealand is that they don’t pay attention to who you are, and they treat you as a human being. You can do what you want.” These are the words of 36-year-old Jordanian Wasseim Alsati, a barber who made Christchurch his home.He is injured and…
SANAA: Yemen’s Houthi militia warned on Saturday they could launch attacks against the capitals of Saudi Arabia and the UAE.The threat came as the United Nations was trying to salvage a truce deal in Yemen, seen as crucial to diplomatic efforts to end the country’s four-year war.The Iran-backed Houthis have targeted Saudi border towns and…
ERBIL: The Iraqi government has started exhuming a mass grave left behind by Daesh in the northwestern Sinjar region in the presence of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad, whose slain relatives are believed to have been buried in the area.The exhumation, which is being carried out with UN support, began Friday in the village…
ERBIL: The Iraqi government has started exhuming a mass grave left behind by Daesh in the northwestern Sinjar region in the presence of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Nadia Murad, whose slain relatives are believed to have been buried in the area.The exhumation, which is being carried out with UN support, began Friday in the village…
DUBAI: Four Jordanians were killed and five others injured - with two in critical condition - during the New Zealand terrorist attack on two mosques on Friday. On Friday, Jordan's Foreign Ministry announced that Khaled Haj Musatafa was killed in the attack, while Jordanian barber Wasseim Alsati and his daughter were among those critically injured. The foreign ministry said efforts are being…
ALGIERS: A huge crowd of demonstrators marched through the Algerian capital for a fourth consecutive Friday to step up demands for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s ouster, rejecting his offer not to seek re-election. With police standing back without intervening, protesters converged on Algiers’ landmark Grand Poste Square for the rally calling on the 82-year-old to step…
BAGHOUZ, Syria: War is personal. And in Syria, after eight years of a grinding conflict, there are as many stories of loss, dispossession and desperate hope as there are people.What started as peaceful protests in 2011 asking for government change turned into one of the cruelest modern wars and left a trail of broken lives…
ALGIERS: A huge crowd of demonstrators marched through the Algerian capital for a fourth consecutive Friday to step up demands for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s ouster, rejecting his offer not to seek re-election. With police standing back without intervening, protesters converged on Algiers’ landmark Grand Poste Square for the rally calling on the 82-year-old to step…
ALGIERS: A huge crowd of demonstrators marched through the Algerian capital for a fourth consecutive Friday to step up demands for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s ouster, rejecting his offer not to seek re-election. With police standing back without intervening, protesters converged on Algiers’ landmark Grand Poste Square for the rally calling on the 82-year-old to step…
ALGIERS: A huge crowd of demonstrators marched through the Algerian capital for a fourth consecutive Friday to step up demands for President Abdelaziz Bouteflika’s ouster, rejecting his offer not to seek re-election. With police standing back without intervening, protesters converged on Algiers’ landmark Grand Poste Square for the rally calling on the 82-year-old to step…
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration opposes curbs on US assistance for the Arab coalition fighting to support the legitimate government in Yemen, United States US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday.“The way to alleviate the Yemeni people’s suffering isn’t to prolong the conflict by handicapping our partners in the fight, but by giving the…
WASHINGTON: The Trump administration opposes curbs on US assistance for the Arab coalition fighting to support the legitimate government in Yemen, United States US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Friday.“The way to alleviate the Yemeni people’s suffering isn’t to prolong the conflict by handicapping our partners in the fight, but by giving the…
New Zealand terrorist attacks: One Jordanian dead, eight injured with two in critical condition DUBAI: One Jordanian was killed and eight others were injured - with two in critical condition - during the New Zealand terrorist attacks on the two mosques on Friday. Jordan's Foreign Ministry announced that Khaled Haj Musatafa was killed in the attacks,…
BEIRUT: Eight years of war in Syria have left more than 370,000 people dead including 112,000 civilians, a monitor said Friday.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which has a network of sources across the country, said more than 21,000 children and 13,000 women were among the dead.The conflict flared after unprecedented anti-government protests in the…
