The UK home office has launched a series of adverts marketing Rwanda to asylum seekers after their policy to deport individuals seeking safety in the UK for processing was met with mass backlash. The video campaign highlights “success stories” of migra…
IS claims northeastern Nigeria bar bomb, injuring 11
Explosives planted at a bar in northeast Nigeria injured 11 people, police said Saturday, the second attack in days targeting drinking spots in Taraba state and claimed by affiliates of the Islamic State group. The blast went off at a moonshine bar in …
Israeli forces block Palestinian Christians from Old City
Israeli forces have obstructed Palestinian Christians from observing Holy Saturday at the Church of the Resurrection, in line with the Orthodox Christian calendar. Footage posted by worshippers on social media reportedly shows heavily guarded blockades…
Lebanon banks reject latest government financial plan draft
The Association of Banks in Lebanon said on Saturday it “completely rejects” the government’s latest draft of a financial recovery plan meant to pull the country out of an economic meltdown. In a statement shared with Reuters, the ABL called the plan “…
Eight including child killed in Sudan’s Darfur: aid groups
Tribal violence between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan’s war-ravaged Darfur region killed at least 8 people including a woman and a child, an aid worker and activists said Saturday. The clashes erupted Thursday with the killing of two people by an unknow…
Osman Kavala makes final appeal before verdict in Turkey
One of Turkey’s most famous prisoners made his final appeal for freedom on Friday, at the culmination of a years-long trial that has come to define Ankara’s tense ties with Western allies in the wake of a failed 2016 coup. Paris-born activist and phila…
Hate-filled songs used in India as weapon to target Muslims
The frenzied fury against Muslims began with provocative songs played by Hindu mobs that called for violence. It ended with Muslim neighborhoods resembling a war zone, with pavements littered with broken glass, charred vehicles and burned mosques. On A…
US envoy urges formation of Iraqi government
The US has stressed the importance of timely government formation in Iraq following its elections in October, Jennifer Gavito, deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs has said in a press briefing on Friday, adding that the mov…
Russia invades Ukraine updates: Hopes wane for Easter truce
Hopes for a weekend truce in Ukraine to celebrate the Orthodox Easter faded with talks between Moscow and Kyiv stalled as Russia said it aimed to take full control over the east and south of its neighbour. The war enters its third month on Sunday but a…
Indonesia’s Indrawati joins calls for World Bank reform
Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati on Friday joined a growing chorus of officials calling for reforms aimed at better equipping the World Bank to address mounting global challenges such as climate change and the changing nature of its cl…