Author: AFP ID: 1570024250841794000 Wed, 2019-10-02 13:37 QAMISHLI: Hundreds of Kurds demonstrated in northeast Syria on Wednesday in protest at their minority community’s “exclusion” from a United Nations-backed committee tasked with drafting a new constitution for the war-devastated country. Carrying … read more
Author: Associated Press ID: 1569950369023721800 Tue, 2019-10-01 17:11 TUNIS: A Tunisian court has ordered that jailed presidential candidate Nabil Karoui stay in prison as he competes in the country’s presidential runoff. One of Karoui’s lawyers, Ined Ben Halima, told The … read more
Author: Associated Press ID: 1569948361933487800 Tue, 2019-10-01 16:16 CAIRO: Libya’s coast guard says it has intercepted around three dozen Europe-bound migrants off the country’s Mediterranean coast. Tuesday’s statement by spokesman Ayoub Gassim says the rubber boat with 31 African migrants … read more
Author: AFP ID: 1569944286862976600 Tue, 2019-10-01 14:18 TEHRAN: Iran’s judiciary on Tuesday announced it had convicted four people on charges of spying for the United States or Britain, sentencing one of them to death. “Last week, a person accused of … read more
Author: Reuters ID: 1569941446192607100 Tue, 2019-10-01 12:31 AMMAN: Tens of thousands of Jordanian teachers on Tuesday defied a government call to end their four-week nationwide strike over pay, in a deepening crisis that threatens to further strain the heavily indebted … read more