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  • ICRC decries Yemen’s ‘dire’ health woes

    The International Committee of the Red Cross has raised an alarm over Yemen's challenges in the health sector. Peter Maurer, the charity's president, said the overall situation in Yemen was "very dire, and very catastrophic". The two-year war has resulted in the world's worst-ever cholera epidemic, and hospitals are unable to keep up. According.. More

  • Qatar Airways expected to access new flight routes

    Qatar Airways is expected to have access to three contingency routes over international waters in early August, after delegates at a UN-led meeting on Monday discussed air corridors for Doha following a rift with its neighbors. The closed-door meeting with the UN aviation agency's governing council in Montreal discussed contingency routes that had.. More

  • Russia expels 755 US diplomats in response to sanctions

    Russian President Vladimir Putin has said Russia will expel 755 US diplomatic staff and could consider imposing additional measures against the United States as a response to new US sanctions. Putin said in an interview televised on state television on Sunday that he ordered the move because he "thought it was the time to show that we're not going.. More

  • Israeli army kills Palestinian teenager on Gaza border

    A Palestinian teenager was killed and another six injured Friday evening during clashes between protesters and Israeli soldiers on the borders of Gaza, according to a Palestinian official. Israeli soldiers shot dead Abdel Rahman Abu Hamaisa, 16, on the eastern border of al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza Strip, Hamas-run Health Ministry spokesman.. More

  • Moroccan king pardons more than 1,000 protesters

    King Mohammed VI of Morocco on Saturday pardoned more than a thousand people who were under arrest for taking part in protests in the troubled northern Rif region, the justice ministry announced. The monarch pardoned a total of 1,178 detainees, including a number who had joined demonstrations in the northern port city of al-Hoceima and surrounding.. More

  • Libya: Pro-Haftar fighters storm constitution assembly

    Fighters aligned with Khalifa Hafter, the military general based in the remote east of Libya, have stormed the headquarters of the constitution drafting assembly in the city of al-Bayda. They held assembly members at gunpoint, and demanded they back down from a recently approved draft constitution. It is unclear whether the fighters are still in the.. More

  • Shehbaz Sharif named Pakistan's new prime minister

    Pakistan's ruling party on Saturday named chief minister of the Punjab province, Shehbaz Sharif, as the country's new prime minister, following the disqualification of former premier Nawaz Sharif by the Supreme Court in the Panama Papers scandal. Shehbaz Sharif, a younger brother of Nawaz Sharif, will however have to wait for 45 days to get elected.. More

  • US House approves new Russia, Iran, N Korea sanctions

    The US House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to slap new sanctions on Russia and force President Donald Trump to obtain politicians' permission before easing any sanctions on Moscow. The sanctions bill comes as politicians investigate possible meddling by Russia in the 2016 presidential election and potential collusion by Republican Trump's campaign. Ne.. More

  • Libya rescues 150 migrants off Tripoli

    Libya's coastguard rescued at least 150 migrants who were trying to reach Europe on Monday, after their inflatable boat had engine problems and began to sink, a navy spokesman said. A coastguard patrol was informed that a boat had run into trouble around seven nautical miles offshore and a rescue mission was launched, Colonel Abu Ajela told AFP. A.. More

  • Palestinian hospitals stretched with influx of wounded

    More than 900 Palestinians have been injured in confrontations with Israeli forces in the last 10 days over the al-Aqsa Mosque compound, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent. Palestinian hospitals, already overstretched, fear a large influx of injured if tensions, which erupted on July 14 after Israel closed the sensitive site in occupied East.. More

  • Clashes leave 57 Palestinians injured in Jerusalem

    At least 57 Palestinians were injured as clashes broke out with Israeli police outside Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinian Red Crescent said on Saturday. In a statement, the Palestinian Red Crescent said 12 wounded were taken to hospitals while the others were treated at the scene. Most of the injuries were caused by rubber bullets, it added. Isr.. More

  • Palestinian shot dead by Israeli army in Hebron area

    A Palestinian man has been shot and killed by Israeli forces after allegedly carrying out a car-ramming attack in north Hebron. According to Palestinian eyewitnesses, Israeli soldiers responded with a barrage of bullets, killing the driver. They told local media that a large group of Israeli soldiers converged on the spot and shut down the entire.. More

  • US announces new sanctions over missile programme

    The United States has slapped fresh economic sanctions on Iran, designating 18 individuals and entities for supporting "illicit Iranian actors or transnational criminal activity". Heather Nauert, the state department spokeswoman, accused Iran on Tuesday of testing and developing ballistic missiles "in direct defiance" of a UN Security.. More

  • Air strikes kill 10 in Syria's Eastern Ghouta: SOHR

    At least 10 people have been killed by air strikes in the opposition-held Damascus suburb of Ein Tarma, according to a UK-based monitor. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said at least two children were among those killed in the air strikes on Friday. The assault took place in the Eastern Ghouta region, which has been partially besieged.. More

  • Huge rallies in Turkey mark failed 2016 coup

    A commemoration ceremony to mark the first anniversary of defeated coup attempt began Saturday at Istanbul’s iconic July 15 Martyrs' Bridge with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in attendance. Erdogan hundreds of thousands of people at the bridge over the Bosphorous, which was renamed to honor the martyrs after the coup attempt. The commemoration.. More