Politics Feb 01 Top UK diplomat says Britain could recognize a Palestinian state before a peace deal with Israel British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said that U.K. recognition of an independent state of Palestine, including in the United Nations, "can't come at the start of the process, but it doesn't have to be the very end of the process."…
World Sep 23 77 migrants from Lebanon dead after boat sinks, Syrian official says Syria's health minister says at least 77 people died when a boat with migrants from Lebanon sank off Syria's coast this week. The minster was quoted by state TV on Friday as saying that he fears the death toll from…
World Nov 14 Al-Jazeera says bureau chief detained by Sudanese forces The development comes after security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas Saturday to disperse protesters denouncing the military’s tightening grip on the country.
World Nov 13 Sudanese rally against army tightening grip on power; 5 dead Sudanese security forces fired live ammunition and tear gas on Saturday to disperse protesters denouncing the military’s tightening grip on the country, killing at least five and wounding several, activists said.
World Nov 11 Two weeks after coup in Sudan, a general tightens grip on power Sudan's top general has reappointed himself as head of the army-run interim governing body, a sign that he is tightening his grip on the country two weeks after he led a coup against civilian leaders.
World Jul 13 Families of Lebanese blast victims protest interior minister Demonstrators gathered Tuesday outside the home of Lebanon's caretaker interior minister demanding an end to what they say is obstruction of the investigation into one of the largest non-nuclear explosions in history.
World Dec 12 Shadowy Ethiopian massacre could be ‘tip of the iceberg’ Witnesses say security forces and their allies attacked civilians in Mai-Kadra with machetes and knives or strangled them with ropes. The stench of bodies lingered for days during the early chaos of the Ethiopian government’s offensive in the defiant Tigray…
World Nov 24 ‘We just ran’: Ethiopians fleeing war find little relief More than 40,000 have fled the Ethiopian government's offensive in the defiant Tigray region into Sudan, often under gunfire, sometimes so quickly they have had to leave family behind.
World Sep 18 U.S. says attack on Saudi oil site was an Iranian ‘act of war’ Iran, which has denied involvement in the attack, warned the U.S. it will retaliate immediately if it is targeted.
World Sep 18 Saudi officials say oil attack could not have come from Yemen Saudi military spokesman Col. Turki al-Malki said the attack "came from the north," without saying specifically where it originated. Iraq and Iran are to the north of Saudi Arabia across the Persian Gulf.