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World condemns Israeli attacks on Palestinians

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 urges Arab League meeting on Gaza killings

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...

Bodies of Indians killed by Daesh in Iraq to be flown home

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...

Iraqis stage sit-in to protest collapse of services

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...