UN calls for week-long Libya Ramadan truce
Tripoli: The United Nations has called for a “humanitarian truce” to halt fighting in Libya from the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan on Monday. Around 400 people have been killed in clashes since military strongman Khalifa Haftar launched an offensive against the seat of the internationally recognised unity government in Tripoli on […]
41 feared dead in Russian plane blaze disaster: investigators
MOSCOW, MAY 6: Forty-one people including at least two children are believed to have died when a Russian passenger plane made an emergency landing and was engulfed in flames at Moscow’s busiest airport Sunday, investigators said. Dramatic footage shared on social media showed Aeroflot’s Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft, land at Sheremetyevo international airport, flames and […]
Senegal MPs pass reform to scrap post of prime minister
Dakar, May 5 : Senegalese lawmakers on Saturday approved a constitutional reform to scrap the post of prime minister, the first initiative of President Macky Sall’s second term in office. The motion passed with 124 MPs voting in favour and only seven against, National Assembly president Moustapha Niasse said Saturday evening after a nine-hour debate. […]
Erdogan condemns Israeli Gaza bombing of Turkish news agency offices
Istanbul, May 5 : President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday fiercely denounced Israel for the bombing of a building housing Turkey’s state news agency Anadolu in Gaza. “We strongly condemn Israel’s attack against Anadolu Agency’s office in Gaza,” Erdogan said on Twitter. “Turkey and Anadolu Agency will continue to tell the world about Israeli terrorism […]
Newly-crowned Thai king carried in elaborate royal procession
Bangkok, May 5 : Thailand’s newly-crowned King Maha Vajiralongkorn was carried by soldiers on a gilded palanquin through the streets of Bangkok Sunday, in front of crowds who craned to witness the historic event. The king, Rama X of the Chakri dynasty, wore a bejewelled robe and broad-brimmed hat with a feather on the second […]
3 Palestinians killed in Gaza after army says soldiers wounded
Gaza City (Palestinian Territories) May 4 : Three Palestinians, including two Hamas militants, were killed by Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip Friday, authorities in the enclave said, after Israel said two of its soldiers were wounded in a shooting on the border. One of the Palestinians was shot dead during clashes along the […]
US targets Iran uranium but lets nuclear deal stay alive
Washington, May 4 : The United States said Friday it would start imposing sanctions over Iranian exports of enriched uranium allowed under a nuclear deal rejected by President Donald Trump, even as it granted waivers to allow the accord to survive. The move comes amid growing Iranian frustration with the nuclear deal, with which UN […]
Pentagon preparing to move F-35 work out of Turkey
Washington, May 4: US Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan warned Friday that the Pentagon will halt manufacturing support for the F-35 in Turkey if Ankara buys a Russian missile defense system. Shanahan told journalists the government remained steadfast in its opposition to Turkey’s adoption of the S-400 anti-aircraft technology. “If Turkey decides that the S-400 […]
Main UK parties suffer Brexit battering in local elections
London, May 4 : Britain’s two main parties suffered a drubbing Friday in English local elections, with Prime Minister Theresa May’s governing Conservatives bearing the brunt of voter frustration over the prolonged Brexit deadlock. May’s Conservatives lost control of several local authorities and well over a thousand seats, performing far worse than even the gloomiest […]
Afghanistan loya jirga demands ‘immediate and permanent’ ceasefire
Kabul, May 3: A historic “loya jirga” peace summit in Kabul ended Friday with delegates from across Afghanistan demanding an “immediate and permanent” ceasefire. “The government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan and the Taliban movement should declare and implement an immediate and permanent ceasefire, starting from the first of Ramadan,” delegates said in a […]
