The United Nations refugee agency evacuated 325 refugees from a detention centre on the southern outskirts of Tripoli amid escalating violence near the Libyan capital. UNHCR said in a statement on Wednesday those rescued from the Qasr bin Ghashir centre were transported to another detention facility in Az-Zawiyah, northwestern Libya, where they were “at reduced risk of being caught up” in ongoing fighting between renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar’s eastern… Read more »
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarifdoes not believe US President Donald Trump wants war with Iran, but he has told Reuters news agency that Trump could be lured into a conflict. “I don’t think he wants war,” Zarif said in an interview at the Iranian mission to the United Nations in New York on Wednesday. “But that doesn’t exclude him being basically lured into one.” The… Read more »
Two runaway Saudi sisters have urged Apple and Google to pull an “inhuman” app allowing men to monitor and control female relatives’ travel as it helped trap girls in abusive families. Maha and Wafa al-Subaie, who are seeking asylumin Georgia after fleeing their family, said Absher – a government e-services app – was bad for women as it supported Saudi Arabia‘s strict male guardian… Read more »
The humanitarian situation has greatly deteriorated in and around the Libyancapital Tripoli, where “densely populated residential areas are gradually turning into battlefields”, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has said. Hospitals are struggling with chronic shortages of medical supplies amid power outages and weakened water pumping stations, the aid agency said on Thursday, after three weeks of clashes around the… Read more »
Khartoum, Sudan – Huge crowds of protesters have rallied in the streets of the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, stepping up pressure on the country’s ruling military council to cede power to an interim civilian body. Tens of thousands of people chanting “We will protect the revolution with our blood” marched through Khartoum’s main streets on Thursday before converging outside the military headquarters,… Read more »
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden formally announced his candidacy Thursday for 2020 — instantly making him a front runner to win the Democratic presidential nomination and take on Donald Trump. >> Subscribe for just $1 now Biden, who at 76 will the second oldest candidate running (after Bernie Sanders at 77), brings with him decades of experience from the U.S. Senate,… Read more »
ve never felt much fear or anxiety about traveling to Israel. I always knew I was protected by my American passport and, above all, by my status as a Jewish person. And I knew that Israeli Arab citizens do not share this sense of safety while traveling to or from their home country. But an experience I recently had at… Read more »
Palestinian terrorist convicted of attempting to bomb an Israeli bus managed to obtain US citizenship, according to a report from CNN. This would apparently be the second time a convicted terrorist became a US citizen after the 9/11 attacks. In 2017, Rasmeah Odeh was convicted of illegaly obtaining US citizenship, after lying about her involvement in two terror bombings in… Read more »
Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden formally announced his candidacy Thursday for 2020 — instantly making him a front runner to win the Democratic presidential nomination and take on Donald Trump. Biden, who at 76 will the second oldest candidate running (after Bernie Sanders at 77), brings with him decades of experience from the U.S. Senate, where he served as the top… Read more »
Built by Lockheed Martin, the jets have an extremely low radar signature allowing the jet to operate undetected deep inside enemy territory as well as evade advanced missile defense systems like the S-300 and S-400 missile defense systems, which have been deployed in countries such as Syria. With close air-support capabilities and a massive array of sensors, pilots of the… Read more »
