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Tue, 26 Oct 2021 08:21:07 +0000Afghanistan: Surge in Islamic State Attacks on Shia (HRW)
The Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP), an armed group affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS), is carrying out bombings and other targeted attacks against Afghanistan’s Shia religious minority that amount to crimes against humanity, Human ...
Tue, 26 Oct 2021 07:49:03 +0000UN Warns of Hunger in Afghanistan During Winter
United Nations agencies have warned on Monday that millions of people in Afghanistan are facing hunger this winter due to government instability in the war-scarred nation and economic sanctions related to the Taliban takeover in the summer...
Tue, 26 Oct 2021 07:28:43 +0000South Sudan: Dialogue is the Only Solution to Solve Sudan Issues
South Sudan called on Sudan’s leadership Monday to return to dialogue after the country’s military dissolved the government and enacted a state of emergency...
Tue, 26 Oct 2021 06:48:31 +0000US Mall Shooting Kills 2, Injures 4 in Idaho
Two people were killed and at least four others wounded, including a police officer, in a shooting Monday at a mall in the US state of Idaho, police said...
Tue, 26 Oct 2021 06:46:22 +0000The Ottoman Sultan Comes to Africa
Erdogan feels as much at home in Africa as he does in Ankara, Istanbul or up the Bosphorus. He visited the continent 38 times, travelling to 28 countries over the past 19 years of the Justice and Development (AK) Party rule...
Mon, 25 Oct 2021 17:51:03 +0000Where is Abdalla Hamdok? Sudanese Want to Know Where Their PM is Being Held
ALBAWABA - Reports of a military coup in Sudan is rife. The military has taken over the government and arrested the civilian members of the so-called Transitional Sovereignty Council...
Mon, 25 Oct 2021 11:21:18 +0000Sudan General Declares State of Emergency, Dissolves Government After 'Coup' (AFP)
Sudan's top general declared a state of emergency, dissolved the authorities leading country's democratic transition, and announced the formation of a new government after soldiers detained civilian leaders Monday in what activists denounced as a "co...
Mon, 25 Oct 2021 09:52:40 +0000Timeline: Sudan Since the Fall of Bashir (AFP)
Here is a recap of events in Sudan since autocratic president Omar al-Bashir was toppled over two years ago provided by AFP:
2019: Bashir ousted
On April 11, 2019, four months after mass protests sparked by a hike in bread prices spiral into ...
Mon, 25 Oct 2021 05:32:21 +0000Israel Considers Building Over 1,300 New Settler Units
The Israeli regime is planning to construct over 1,300 new settler units in the occupied West Bank as Tel Aviv continues to press ahead with its illegal settlement expansion activities and land grab policies across the Palestinian territories despite...
Mon, 25 Oct 2021 05:26:44 +0000Colombia Arrests Drug Lord Usaga
Colombian military forces captured the leader of one of the nation's largest drug cartels, President Ivan Duque announced...
Mon, 25 Oct 2021 05:16:33 +0000Hamas Starts Mass Hunger Strike to Support 7 Palestinian Inmates
The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas says dozens of its prisoners in Israeli jails are preparing to go on hunger strike in solidarity with seven inmates who are already refusing food in protest at their detention without charge and other repress...
Mon, 25 Oct 2021 05:08:28 +0000Members of Sudanese Civilian Government, Ruling Coalition Arrested
Sudan’s military has arrested members of the civilian government and leaders of the ruling coalition of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC), according to officials in the capital Khartoum early Monday...
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 12:41:40 +0000Turkey's Erdogan Orders Expulsion of 10 Ambassadors (AFP)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday told his foreign minister to expel the ambassadors of 10 countries, including Germany and the United States, who had appealed for the release of a jailed civil society leader...
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 05:44:28 +0000Pakistan Denies Availing Airspace for US to Attack Afghanistan
Pakistan refused a report on a formal deal for the use of its airspace by the United States to make military strikes in Afghanistan, saying there is "no such understanding" between the two countries...
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 05:34:11 +0000Gunmen Attack Nigerian Prison Releasing Hundreds of Inmates
Hundreds of inmates were released as gunmen attacked a jail in Nigeria's Oyo State, authorities revealed on Saturday...
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 05:26:02 +0000Amnesty International, HRW Slam Israeli Criminalization of Palestinian Civil Groups
The world is slamming Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz’s decision to declare six Palestinian human rights groups as “organizations of terror...
Sun, 24 Oct 2021 05:14:15 +0000Libya Discovers New Mass Grave in Tarhuna
Libyan authorities have unearthed a new mass grave in the southwestern city of Tarhuna, a former stronghold for warlord Khalifa Haftar...
Fri, 22 Oct 2021 17:26:45 +0000China Starts COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters Ahead of The Winter Olympics
Many residents in the Chinese capital of Beijing are now able to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster dose -- a little more than three months before the city hosts the 2022 Winter Olympic Games, officials said Friday...
Fri, 22 Oct 2021 17:20:08 +0000Putin Meets Israel's Bennett in Sochi to Talk on Syria, Iran and Business
Russian President Vladimir Putin has welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett at his residence Bocharov Ruchey in Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi on Friday...
Fri, 22 Oct 2021 17:14:51 +0000Australia: The 'Most Locked-Down City' Eases Restrictions
People in Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city and the state capital of Victoria, are celebrating new freedoms as the world’s "most locked-down city" lifted its latest round of restrictions on Friday...