Erdogan hints at possible Syria ground offensive

Turkey will attack militants with tanks and soldiers soon, President Tayyip Erdogan said, signalling a possible ground offensive against a Kurdish militia in Syria after retaliatory strikes escalated along the Syrian border..His comments came as Turkish artillery kept up bombardment of Kur
22 November 2022, 15:30 PM

Prankster fools Polish president

The Polish president spoke to a hoax caller pretending to be France's Emmanuel Macron on the night that a missile hit a village near the Ukrainian border, his office said on Tuesday, an admission likely to raise questions about its operations..In a 7-1/2 minute recording of the call posted
22 November 2022, 12:56 PM

11 dead as bus crashes in Morocco

At least 11 people died and 43 were injured Tuesday when their bus overturned on a highway in northern Morocco, authorities said.
22 November 2022, 12:48 PM

'IS bride' was child trafficking victim, her lawyer tells UK court

Shamima Begum, who was stripped of her British citizenship after joining the Islamic State group in Syria was the victim of propaganda and should be treated as a child trafficking victim, a court in London heard on Monday..The woman, now 23, is one of hundreds of Europeans whose fate follo
22 November 2022, 03:04 AM

Erdogan threatens ground operation into Syria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday threatened to launch a ground operation into Syria after cross-border air strikes on Kurdish positions and deadly fire on Turkey.
21 November 2022, 18:00 PM

‘Torture’ sites found in Kherson

Ukraine yesterday said it had identified four locations where Russian forces tortured detainees in Kherson before Moscow withdrew troops from the southern Ukrainian city.
21 November 2022, 18:00 PM

UK court told ‘IS bride’ was child trafficking victim

Lawyers for a woman who was stripped of her British citizenship after travelling to join the Islamic State group in Syria challenged the decision yesterday, arguing she was a victim of child trafficking.
21 November 2022, 18:00 PM

Biden turns 80

For the first time in history, a sitting president turned 80 years old in the White House on Sunday but did not celebrate in any public way. It wasn’t
21 November 2022, 18:00 PM

WHO identifying potential pandemic pathogens

Geneva AFP Nov 21, 2022.The World Health Organization said on Monday it was thrashing out a new list of priority pathogens that risk sparking pandemics or outbreaks and need to be kept under close observation.
21 November 2022, 14:53 PM

Can Ukraine's grain deal ease the global food crisis?

A deal to free up vital grain exports from Ukraine's southern Black Sea ports - which had been due to expire on November 19 - was extended on Thursday for 120 days.
21 November 2022, 12:12 PM

Palestinian high-schooler killed in Israeli army raid

The Israeli army carried out an arrest raid on a flashpoint town in the occupied West Bank on Monday, touching off confrontations in which medics said its troops shot dead a Palestinian high-schooler.
21 November 2022, 10:14 AM

Shallow quake in Indonesia kills 62

A shallow 5.6-magnitude earthquake killed at least 62 people, with hundreds injured and others missing, when it toppled buildings and triggered landslides on Indonesia's main island of Java on Monday, officials said.
21 November 2022, 08:57 AM

2 top actors arrested in Iran for removing headscarves: State media

Iran has arrested two prominent actors who expressed solidarity with the protest movement and removed their headscarves in public in an apparent act of defiance against the regime, state media reported Sunday..Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi were both detained after being summoned by
21 November 2022, 05:03 AM

'IS bride' Shamima's UK citizenship hearing today

Shamima Begum, who lost her British citizenship after joining the Islamic State group in Syria, will on Monday have her case reviewed, with her lawyers arguing that she was a "victim of trafficking".
21 November 2022, 03:48 AM

Colorado mass shooting suspect in police custody

The gunman who opened fire inside a LGBTQ nightspot in Colorado Springs late on Saturday, killing at least five people and injuring 25 others, was stopped by "heroic" clubgoers, police said.
21 November 2022, 02:12 AM

Biden turns 80, no public celebration in White House

For the first time in history, a sitting president turned 80 years old in the White House on Sunday but did not celebrate in any public way.
21 November 2022, 01:42 AM

US envoy urges Chinese cooperation on emissions cuts

US climate envoy John Kerry yesterday called on Beijing to “accelerate progress together” on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, following a meeting with his Chinese counterpart at COP27 in Egypt.
20 November 2022, 18:00 PM

‘You’re playing with fire!’

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, which is under Russian control, was rocked by shelling yesterday, drawing condemnation from the UN nuclear watchdog which said such attacks risked a major nuclear disaster.
20 November 2022, 18:00 PM

COP27 strikes deal on fund for poor nations

Countries adopted a hard-fought final agreement at the COP27 climate summit early yesterday that sets up a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters - but does not boost efforts to tackle the emissions causing them.
20 November 2022, 18:00 PM

Nine die after car plunges into dam in Nigeria

Nine people drowned and three others were rescued when their overloaded car plunged into a dam in northern Nigeria, the fire service said yesterday.
20 November 2022, 18:00 PM