Politics

Exiled Yemen president says fighting Huthis to stop 'Iran expansion' - 08/30/2015

KHARTOUM, SUDAN- Yemen's exiled President Abedrabbo Mansur Hadi said on Saturday that his forces were battling Shiite Huthi rebels across the country to check "Iranian expansion" in the region. Hadi...

New migrant truck found in Austria, three children hospitalised - 08/30/2015

VIENNA, AUSTRIA- Austrian police said Saturday that they intercepted another truck containing 26 migrants and that three young children had to be hospitalised, days after 71 people died in an...

Satellite images confirm Palmyra temple destruction: UN - 08/29/2015

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND- Satellite images confirm the destruction of the Baal Shamin temple in Syria's Palmyra, the United Nations said Friday, after international condemnation of the act claimed by the...

Empty chair for Snowden prize ceremony - 08/29/2015

OSLO, NORWAY- Edward Snowden will be represented by an empty chair next week when he is honoured with a freedom of expression prize in Norway, as he fears extradition to the US, organisers said...

Egypt court sentences 12 IS supporters to death - 08/27/2015

CAIRO, EGYPT- An Egyptian court sentenced to death 12 members of the Islamic State group Thursday for planning attacks against police and soldiers in the country, a judicial official said. Six of...

Up to 50 dead in Austria as migrant crisis rages - 08/27/2015

VIENNA, AUSTRIA, Simon Sturdee and Nina Lamparski- Austrian police found the decomposing bodies of up to 50 migrants in an abandoned truck on Thursday, sparking a cross-border hunt for the...

Governments must do 'much more' to end migrant crisis: UN chief - 08/27/2015

PARIS, FRANCE- UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon urged countries to show compassion and do "much more" to end the escalating migration crisis. He said during a visit to Paris that the hundreds of...

US envoy to Syria to hit road in push for progress - 08/27/2015

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- The newly appointed US special envoy for Syria will travel to Geneva, Moscow and Riyadh this week as American efforts to find a political solution to the conflict...

Saudi king to visit US for first time since rift - 08/27/2015

RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA- Saudi King Salman will visit the United States next month for the first time since acceding the throne and following a rift over America's rapprochement with Iran, a diplomat...

Moroccan charged with terror attack on French train - 08/26/2015

PARIS, FRANCE, Eric Randolph- Prosecutors have charged a Moroccan man over last week's attack on a high-speed French train, accusing him of a "targeted and premeditated" jihadist assault that would...
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