Muslims heeded calls Monday not to enter a Jerusalem holy site and protested outside after Israeli authorities installed metal detectors at entrances to the ultra-sensitive compound following an attack that killed two policemen. The compound was largely empty on Monday apart from tourists and Jewish visitors, with Muslims again praying and protesting outside the site … Read more
A suicide car bomber pursued by security forces blew himself up in eastern Damascus on Sunday, with a monitor reporting 18 killed in the deadliest attack to hit the Syrian capital in months. Syrian state media and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said security forces intercepted three car bombers on their way … Read more
A suicide car bomber pursued by security forces blew himself up in eastern Damascus on Sunday, with a monitor reporting 18 killed in the deadliest attack to hit the Syrian capital in months. Syrian state media and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said security forces intercepted three car bombers on their way … Read more
Several people were killed and others wounded on Sunday when a suicide bombing struck an eastern district of Damascus, Syrian state television reported. It said security forces intercepted three suicide car bombers on Sunday morning, blowing up two at the entrance to the city. The third was able to enter Damascus and detonated a bomb … Read more
Dozens of Palestinians were hurt on Friday in the occupied West Bank and Gaza during clashes with Israeli forces after marches backing hunger-striking prisoners, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said. Both the Red Crescent and the health ministry in Gaza said protesters were injured by tear gas, rubber bullets and live fire. Thousands of people … Read more
An explosion at a mine in northern Iran on Wednesday left at least 26 workers trapped in a mile-long tunnel filled with gas that hampered rescue efforts, media reports said. The coal mine in Golestan province collapsed when methane gas exploded underground as workers tried to jump-start a locomotive engine, according to the reports. Two … Read more
More than 30 civilians and Kurdish-led fighters have been killed in an attack by Islamic State militants near Syria’s north-eastern border with Iraq. They targeted a makeshift camp for displaced Syrians and Iraqi refugees at Rajm al-Salibi, near the town of Shaddadi in Hassakeh province. The militants also also clashed with members of the Syrian … Read more
Hundreds of frightened Syrians being evacuated from besieged towns were stuck Thursday at a rebel-held transit point where more than 120 of their fellow townspeople were killed in a weekend bombing. The 3,000 evacuees left their homes in the government-controlled towns of Fuaa and Kafraya at dawn on Wednesday as part of a deal that … Read more
The Swiss Red Cross (SRC), a Swiss Humanitarian Foundation, has provided financial support to the Central Region Red Cross of the Ghana Red Cross Society, to help embark on cholera prevention campaigns in the region. Consequently, one hundred volunteers have been trained as part of measures to prevent a possible outbreak of cholera in the … Read more
A bomb attack on a bus in Syria’s third city Homs killed five people and wounded at least seven on Wednesday, state media reported. The blast hit a small bus carrying passengers in the Al-Zahraa neighbourhood, which has repeatedly been targeted in bombings. Most of the neighbourhood’s residents belong to the same Alawite religious sect … Read more
The wail sliced through the stuffy underground medical centre in a besieged town near the Syrian capital. Dania, 14, was writhing in pain ahead of her first ever dialysis session. She was one of dozens of patients being treated for renal insufficiency inside a basement-turned-clinic in Douma, the largest town in the Eastern Ghouta rebel … Read more
The migrants were picked up in batches by Italian coast guards between Tuesday and Thursday About 2,500 migrants were rescued off the Mediterranean in the past three days by Italian coast guards. 1,100 were taken from nine flimsy vessels off the Libyan coast on Thursday while another 1,360 others had been picked up on Tuesday … Read more
Armed groups traded fire with heavy weapons in the centre of Tripoli, injuring at least nine people and paralysing the Libyan capital, residents and the Red Crescent said on Friday. “Our team… rescued nine people injured in the indiscriminate firing,” said the Libyan Red Crescent, which has set up a field hospital on a roundabout … Read more
Burkina Faso’s Diebedo Francis Kere will be the first African architect to design a temporary pavilion in London’s Hyde Park, a prestigious assignment given to a world-famous architect every year. Kere’s design is inspired by a tree in his hometown of Gando that serves as “a central meeting point for life”, the Serpentine Galleries said … Read more
Refugee deaths have risen to record levels across the Mediterranean Sea in the past year Libya’s Red Crescent has said that 74 bodies of refugees have washed ashore in the western city of Zawiya on the Mediterranean Sea. The aid organisation’s spokesman Mohammed al-Misrati told the AP news agency that the bodies washed ashore on … Read more
The bodies of 74 migrants who drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe have washed up on a beach west of the Libyan capital, the Red Crescent said Tuesday. Residents of the village of Harcha, outside Zawiya, 45 kilometres (30 miles) from Tripoli, alerted the emergency services after finding a wrecked boat on the … Read more
A man taking a selfie after an Iranian dam burst was among at least seven people killed as floods, avalanches and dust storms gripped the country, state media reported Saturday. The 40-year-old was swept away while taking the photograph beside a river swollen by the breach of the earthen dam near the southeastern city of … Read more