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PORT SUDAN: A major city in Sudan’s western region of Darfur has been rocked by fighting involving “heavy weaponry,” a senior UN official said Saturday. Violence erupted in populated areas of El-Fasher, putting about 800,000 people at risk, Clementine Nkweta-Salami, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator for Sudan, said in a statement. Wounded civilians were being rushed […]

Suspected militants blew up a school for girls in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country’s volatile northwest, badly damaging the structure but no one was harmed in the overnight attack, a local police official said Thursday. The attack happened Wednesday night on the only school for girls in Shawa, a town

CAIRO/DUBAI – The United Arab Emirates hit out at Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Saturday after the Israeli leader said the Gulf state could be involved in aiding a future government in Gaza after the war. The prominent and influential Gulf state, is one of few Arab states with official diplomatic ties to Israel,

TUNIS: Tunisian police stormed the building of the Deanship of Lawyers on Saturday and arrested Sonia Dahmani, a lawyer known for her fierce criticism of President Kais Saied, and then arrested two journalists who witnessed the confrontation, a journalists’ syndicate said. Two IFM radio journalists, Mourad Zghidi and Borhen Bsaiss, were arrested, an official in

Activists of the Dal Khalsa Sikh organisation, a pro-Khalistan group, stage a demonstration demanding justice for Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was killed in 2023 [GETTY] A fourth Indian national living in Canada has been charged in the slaying of a Sikh separatist leader last June that became the centre of a diplomatic spat with India.

TUNIS – Hundreds of protesters gathered in the Tunisian capital on Sunday to demand the release of imprisoned journalists, activists and opposition figures, and the setting of a date for fair presidential elections. The protest comes amid an economic and political crisis and a wave of arrests targeting journalists, lawyers, activists and opponents. Tunisian police

KUWAIT CITY: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Sunday urged an immediate halt to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, the return of hostages and a “surge” in humanitarian aid to the besieged Palestinian territory. “I repeat my call, the world’s call for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire, the unconditional release of all hostages and an immediate surge

Students participate in an assembly to talk about the protest camp in solidarity with Palestine at Complutense University in Madrid, Spain [Getty] Spanish universities expressed willingness Thursday to suspend ties with any Israeli educational institution that failed to express “a clear commitment to peace” as Israel’s war on Gaza rages. Students protests have gathered pace

NAJAF, Iraq – Powerful Iraqi Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is laying the groundwork for a political comeback two years after a failed and ultimately deadly high-stakes move to form a government without his Shia rivals, multiple sources said. His return, likely planned for the 2025 parliamentary election, could threaten the growing clout of rivals including

TUNIS: Tunisian police stormed the building of the Deanship of Lawyers on Saturday and arrested Sonia Dahmani, a lawyer known for her fierce criticism of President Kais Saied, and then arrested two journalists who witnessed the confrontation, a journalists’ syndicate said. Two IFM radio journalists, Mourad Zghidi and Borhen Bsaiss, were arrested, an official in