Author: Wed, 2019-01-09 00:10 JEDDAH: The United Nations envoy for Yemen held talks Tuesday with the country’s president, as he sought to shore up a truce in key port Hodeidah. Martin Griffiths met with the Yemeni authorities after seeing Houthi … read more
Author: Tue, 2019-01-08 22:25 BAGHDAD: Security forces in Iraqi Kurdistan have been “torturing children” to force them to confess to having links with Daesh, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. The rights group said it interviewed 23 boys aged between 14 … read more
Author: Reuters ID: 1546971247555586900 Tue, 2019-01-08 17:57 WASHINGTON: The US State Department said on Tuesday it was aware of reports of the detention of a US citizen held in Iran for more than six months, amid heightened tensions between the … read more
Author: AFP ID: 1546962377464843600 Tue, 2019-01-08 15:12 KHARTOUM: Hundreds of protesters on Tuesday staged a “martyrs’ rally” in an eastern Sudanese town to honor those killed in anti-government protests last month, witnesses said. Deadly protests have rocked Sudan since December … read more
Author: Reuters ID: 1546962123024826900 Tue, 2019-01-08 14:50 BEIRUT: Storms in Lebanon have flooded Syrian refugee camps, ruining tents, mattresses and food and compounding the misery of people enduring powerful winter winds and biting cold. More than a million Syrians fled … read more