One police officer was killed and two others wounded Thursday in a shooting on Paris’s famed Champs Elysees, just days ahead of France’s presidential election, police said. AFP cited France’s interior ministry stating that the gunman was killed after opening fire on the officers on
Last week, Egypt’s Coptic Christians cancelled Easter celebrations in mourning for those who were killed in two separate terrorist explosions targeting churches in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria. In Iraq too, new maps are being drawn by sectarianism, while minorities shrink and ethno-relig
Human Rights Watch has accused Houthi putschists, and their allies, of using banned landmines in Yemen, resulting in the maiming and deaths of “hundreds of civilians.” “Al-Houthi rebels and pro-Saleh forces have used antipersonnel landmines in at least six provinces since the Arab coalition be
United States Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo on Thursday, vowing to uphold support for the American ally on his first regional tour. Sisi’s visit Washington in April marked a shift in relations after US President Donald Trump’s predec
Riyadh- Saudi judiciary sentenced on Wednesday a Saudi citizen to six years in prison and banned her from traveling for supporting ISIS and seeking to join it. Saudi authorities foiled her attempt to travel to Syria with her children, through Yemen, and arrested her in the border area with Yemen. Sa
Stanglwirt is a sprawling bio-hotel located in the Austrian Alps and which at first glance looks like the setting for a slow-burning, creepy horror movie. With its mountainous background and somewhat kitsch interior – heavy wood paneling, stripy sofas – it brings about memories of the Overlook Hotel
The only modern president who rivaled Donald Trump in his lack of preparation for global leadership was Harry Truman. Both men took office with little knowledge of the international problems they were about to face, and with worries at home and abroad that they weren’t up to the job. “I pray God I c
An estimated 2,150 to 4,100 children in France suffered “severe malformations” in the womb between 1967 and 2016 after their mothers took a treatment against epilepsy and bipolar disorders known as valproate, France’s drug regulator said on Thursday. Women who took the drug during pregnancy to
Moscow-The elder brother of the prime St. Petersburg bombing suspect was detained just outside Moscow on Wednesday. “Originally from Kyrgyzstan, Akram Azimov, born in 1988, was arrested in Odintsovo, outside Moscow,” according to the media communications office of Russia’s Federal Security Service (
New York – Widespread conflicts could return to Libya, yet the Libyan agreement could be amended to overcome the current political impasse, according to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. An emerging consensus on the need for limited amendments to the agreement “represents
Air strikes have killed 19 members, including several leaders, of Egypt’s ISIS affiliate in the Sinai Peninsula where the extremists are waging an insurgency, the Egyptian military said on Thursday. In a statement on its official Facebook page, the military said the air strikes were directed a
European Union Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and the bloc’s chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier will hold talks with British Prime Minister Theresa May in London next Wednesday to assess the upcoming two years of negotiations which were triggered by Britain on March 29. “Pr
London- Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei indirectly criticized some political parties for reiterating slogans to distance the country from war. Khamenei addressed a gathering of top military and army staff, telling them a country would be in its worst situation if its officials fear the slightest
A Canadian woman has been charged with human smuggling offences in connection with a recent wave of asylum seekers walking across the border from the US, police said Wednesday. Michelle Omoruyi, 43, was stopped near the Canada-US border last Friday and charged with one count each of human smuggling
Terror group ISIS has been pounded with consecutive strikes targeting the very foundations of its self-proclaimed “caliphate.” Military defeats in Syria and Iraq have undermined the group’s influence. Close to losing Mosul, and the battle for driving the terrorists out of their de facto Syria capita
London- The Gulf Cooperation Council and the United Kingdom held on Wednesday the UK-GCC Public Private Partnership (PPP) Conference to implement National Transformation plans. The conference, which is the first of its kind, aims at enhancing bilateral economic cooperation through public and private
It is not strange that Iran is the only country in the Middle East that blocks services which are considered essential now like Twitter, Facebook, and WhatsApp as part of its continuous blackout policy. Tehran even disturbs the signal of several broadcast channels blocking citizens from any external
Washington – World Bank Senior Official Mahmoud Mohieldin said that Arab countries could benefit from major economic opportunities by depending on their human resources, especially in the field of Information Technology. In an interview with Asharq al-Awsat newspaper, Mohieldin said that despite slo
Riyadh – On Tuesday, Riyadh witnessed the performance of the Hungarian pianist Gergely Boganyi playing the works of famous musicians, such as Johann Bach, Schubert, Beethoven, Mozart, and Chopin at a classical musical evening. The evening, organized by Awtar Association and under the supervision of
Venezuela’s opposition vowed fresh huge protests on Thursday, upping the ante in its bid to oust unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro a day after deadly clashes rocked the country. A 17-year-old boy and a 23-year-old woman died after being shot Wednesday during what the opposition called the “
