Veteran Venezuelan opposition leader Antonio Ledezma, under house arrest after his 2015 arrest for alleged coup plotting, escaped across the border to Colombia on Friday. Ledezma, the best-known detained opponent of leftist President Nicolas Maduro after Leopoldo Lopez, said he had gone...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- The Council of Damascus Governorate issued new decree to evacuate the Allawan area in Kafarsousa district, such a step enhancing the Iranian presence in the capital and endorsing forced displacement of the indigenous people due to sectarian agenda, local activists said....
Salvatore “Toto” Riina, the Sicilian Mafia’s most powerful boss of the 20th century who was convicted for ordering dozens of murders, died of natural causes early on Friday after almost a quarter of a century in jail. Riina, who turned 87 on Thursday, died in the prison ward of a...
Jews and Syrians are the groups most frequently targeted by hate speech in Turkish media, the latest report on the topic has revealed. As many as 48 different ethnic groups and communities were targeted in 2,466 instances of media hate speech in the four months from May to August,...
