KHARTOUM: Thousands of protesters marching in the Sudanese capital Khartoum faced tear gas on Friday as they demonstrated against an almost year-long military coup amid efforts to come to a political settlement.

Sudan has slid further into political and economic turmoil since the Oct. 25, 2021 coup, but political parties said this week that discussions had begun, supported by international facilitators, to reach an agreement to form a new civilian government.

DUBAI: Nearly 12,500 people have been arrested and more than 250 killed since the start of protests across the Iran sparked by the death in police custody of Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Amini just over a month ago, according to a prominent human rights group.

LONDON: An Iranian women who broke Iran’s strict hijab laws while competing at a climbing event in South Korea was forced to publicly apologize over the incident, the BBC reported.

In a statement this week after taking part in the competition without a headscarf, 33-year-old Elnaz Rekabi said her hijab had “fallen off inadvertently.”

But a source told the BBC that Rekabi’s family had been threatened by Iranian authorities after footage of the climber at the event went viral online.

CAIRO: Syrian air defenses intercepted an Israeli missile attack over the capital Damascus and the southern region late on Friday and explosions were heard in the capital’s vicinity, state media reported.
No immediate information was immediately available on damages or casualties.

CAIRO: Water resources are a priority subject at COP27, said the head of the EU delegation in Cairo as Egypt prepared to host the UN Climate Change Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh next month.

Christian Berger’s comments came during his visit to Cairo Water Week, where experts discussed the effects of climate change on an essential natural resource.