Seven people including at least six police were killed Sunday in a prison riot in eastern Mexico, authorities said, the latest outburst of deadly violence in the country's jails. Police were trying to transport a group of "highly dangerous" prisoners from the La Toma prison in...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 52 regime troops and allied militants from coastal Tartus province killed by rebels in March, pro-regime news feeds said. The death toll included six officers as most of slain fighters killed in Eastern Ghouta suburbs near the capital. More...
Although he hasn't said it openly, there's no doubt that Zinedine Zidane knows his Real Madrid line-up for Tuesday night in Turin.What happened against Las Palmas on Saturday in their 3-0 victory will not have influenced his decision. Karim Benzema has scored many goals since joining...
Israeli forces arrested a Palestinian while trying to sneak into Israel from the Gaza Strip, according to the military. In a statement on Sunday, the army said the detained Palestinian was unarmed and was taken into custody for investigation, according to Yedioth Ahronoth...
A growing list of world leaders on Saturday condemned Israeli attacks on civilians in the Gaza Strip that martyred 15 Palestinians during peaceful protests the previous day. The German foreign ministry voiced deep concerning for the tensions between Palestinians and Israeli security...
Palestine on Sunday called on the Arab League to hold an emergency meeting on "Israeli crimes against Land Marches," Palestine’s ambassador to Cairo told Anadolu Agency. Diab al-Louh said his country had submitted a memorandum to the Arab League to hold an emergency meeting at the level...
Islamist insurgents battled for hours on Sunday with African Union troops after exploding a car bomb outside their base, Somali police, military and the militants said. Al-Shabab militants attacked the African Union (AU) peacekeepers' base in the town Bulamarer, 130 kilometers to the...
The remains of 38 Indian construction workers captured and killed by Daesh (ISIS) in northern Iraq have been handed over to Indian authorities in Baghdad and will be flown home. Indian Ambassador Pradeep Singh Rajpurohit said the bodies had been taken to Baghdad International Airport...
Hundreds of Catalan independence supporters marched in Berlin on Sunday to demand the release of ex-regional president Carles Puigdemont, who was arrested in Germany last week and faces extradition to Spain on rebellion charges. Huddled under umbrellas in the rainy German capital,...
Rex Tillerson has all but vanished from the State Department's website as his unceremonious firing by tweet took effect over the weekend. The "Secretary of State Tillerson" link on the department's homepage disappeared overnight Saturday and was replaced with a generic "Secretary of...
Hundreds of Iraqis staged an open sit-in on Sunday to protest the collapse of services in the eastern part of the capital. “We have come out today to protest years of deliberate government negligence,” Jabbar Latif, an elder from the Shia-majority al-Fadhiliya district in eastern...
A Kuwaiti court Sunday sentenced in absentia a Lebanese man and his Syrian wife to death by hanging over the murder of a Filipina maid, a judicial source said. The court issued the sentence in the first hearing in the case of Joanna Demafelis, the 29-year-old maid whose body was found...
Pope Francis celebrated Easter mass under tight security and a sunny sky Sunday in front of tens of thousands of pilgrims gathered in a flower-bedecked St Peter's Square. Under a longstanding tradition, the Netherlands donated some 50,000 tulips, daffodils, roses and orchids for the...
Iraq exported 3.453 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil from its southern ports in March, slightly above the February average, the oil ministry said Sunday. Iraq's exports from the ports, managed by the central government in Baghdad, averaged 3.426 million bpd in February, down...
The EU's diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini called Saturday for an independent investigation into the use of live ammunition by Israel's military following clashes in Gaza that left 16 Palestinians dead. "The EU mourns the loss of life. Our thoughts are with the families of the...
Nobel laureate Malala Yousufzai on Saturday visited her hometown in northwestern Pakistan for the first time after being shot by Taliban militants. Accompanied by her parents, two brothers, and Information Minister Marriyum Aurangzeb, the 20-year-old arrived in Swat Valley on a special...
Three-fourths of Jerusalem’s historic Al-Aqsa Mosque was built by the Ottoman Empire, said a Palestinian scholar on Saturday. "Al-Aqsa is an issue which concerns the whole Muslim community. Today we see Turkey leading this community," Nawaf Takruri, head of the Council of Palestinian...
Israeli troops fired warning shots towards Palestinian youths gathered at the Gaza-Israel border Saturday, wounding 13 people, health officials said. Tensions remained high in the area a day after deadly violence broke out in one of the biggest Palestinian demonstrations there in years....
A fire broke out at the Houthi-controlled Yemeni port of Hodeidah early Saturday, destroying warehouses filled with cooking fuel and foodstuffs, port workers said. They told Reuters that, as of 1100 GMT, fire trucks had not been able to put out the blaze in the warehousing area, which they...
An Israeli drone crashed in southern Lebanon on Saturday, according to Lebanon’s official National News Agency. The unmanned spy plane fell down between the villages of Beit Yahoun and Baraachit, the agency said. Local media aired images of the crashed...
