Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian teen wielding a knife on Saturday in the occupied West Bank, police said. The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed the teenager had been killed. There was no other comment from Palestinian officials. A 17-year-old Palestinian approached a group of Israel
Supervisor General King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre, KSRelief, Dr. Abdullah Al Rabeeah met on Friday with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on the sidelines of the World Humanitarian Day in New York 2017. The meeting, which was attended by a number of officials, dealt with the grea
At least ten people were killed and dozens injured when an express train derailed in north India on Saturday, an official said. “Ten people have died and dozens have been injured. Most of the injured have been taken to the hospital,” said P S Mishra, chief medical officer for the area, b
Spanish authorities pressed their search Saturday for the supposed ringleader of an extremist cell that carried out vehicle attacks in Barcelona and the seaside resort of Cambrils, as they looked into links among the Moroccan cell members. Early in the morning, police searched two buses in northwest
A knife-wielding man went on a stabbing rampage in a Siberian city on Saturday, wounding seven people before police shot and killed him. A statement from Russia’s Investigative Committee said the mid-day attack took place on a central street in Surgut. The suspect, who had been identified as a
Finnish police are investigating Friday’s wild knife attack that killed two and injured eight in the western city of Turk as a crime related to terrorism, they said on Saturday. “Due to information received during the night, the Turku stabbings are now being investigated as murders with
Afghan security forces were on high alert Saturday as the war-weary country, reeling from a number of high-profile deadly attacks, marked its independence day with muted celebrations. There was an increased police presence in the capital Kabul where President Ashraf Ghani hosted a private ceremony f
The Lebanese army launched on Saturday an offensive against an ISIS enclave on the northeastern border with Syria, as Hezbollah and Syrian forces announced an assault from the Syrian side of the border in the western Qalamoun mountain range. The Lebanese army was targeting ISIS positions on the outs
US President Donald Trump parted ways with his controversial chief strategist Steve Bannon on Friday in the latest White House shake-up. But the 63-year-old vowed to keep pushing the president’s right-wing agenda, as he returned to his former home at the ultra-conservative Breitbart News. 
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats were enemies of Turkey and called on Turks in Germany to vote against major parties in next month’s elections, prompting a sharp warning from Berlin. “I am calling on all my
The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud received Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi at his residence in the Moroccan city of Tangier on Friday, the Saudi Press Agency reported. During the audience, they reviewed various issues of mutual interest, in addition to t
Venezuela vowed on Thursday that it would crackdown and jail the leaders of violent protests that have been taking place in the country since April as the US Vice President called on Latin American countries to step up pressure on Caracas. Venezuela’s new top prosecutor Tarek Saab pledged to track d
Washington’s most senior military officer warned Pyongyang on Friday that an attack against Japan would be the same as an attack as the United States. “I think we made it clear to North Korea and anyone else in the region that an attack on one is an attack on both of us,” Joseph Dunford,
A samurai sword-wielding Taiwanese attacker injured on Friday a guard outside Taiwan’s presidential office in what was described as politically-motivated assault. Carrying the national flag of China, the perpetrator, identified only by his family name Lu, slashed a military police guard outside the
French police evicted more than 2,000 migrants living on sidewalks in an area north of Paris on Friday and Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said the latest action proved the system for handling migrants is “dysfunctional”. Dozens of police and white police vans moved in at around 5 a.m.
Israel froze on Friday a controversial settlement law that legalizes dozens of Jewish settlements built on private Palestinian land, which the UN labeled a “thick red line”. Supreme Court documents seen by AFP show that Judge Neal Hendel issued Thursday an open-ended restraining order su
Police on Friday hunted for the driver who rammed a van into pedestrians on an avenue crowded with tourists in Barcelona, leaving 13 people dead, just hours before a second deadly assault in the coastal resort of Cambrils. Police said they killed five “suspected terrorists” during the ni
The death toll from floods and consequent mudslides in Sierra Leone has passed 400, while some 600 people are still unaccounted for, announced the Red Cross on Friday. “Today we are counting more than 400 people dead,” the president of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Cr
Belgian judges on Thursday ordered Abdeslam, 27, and his alleged accomplice Sofiane Ayari, 24, to stand trial in Brussels criminal court, with the date set in a few weeks, the federal prosecutor’s office said. The two will be tried for “attempted murder of several police officers in a te
Yemeni President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi said that Iranian plots meant for his country have failed and has found rejection among the Yemeni People. Hadi’s comments came during his meeting here today with Yemeni Vice President Ali Mohsen Saleh, Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin Dagher, and a number
