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Ramallah, Dec 8 (Online): The Palestinian Health Ministry says Israeli forces have shot dead three Palestinians during a raid on the Jenin refugee camp in northern West Bank, as tensions continue to escalate across the occupied territories. Citing witnesses, Palestine’s official news agency reported that […]

Frankfurt, Germany, Dec 8 (AFP/APP): A German prince, known for his desire to revive the country’s monarchy and rejected by his own family as a “mad old man”, has emerged as a central figure in an alleged coup plot. Prince Heinrich XIII Reuss, descendant of […]

Moscow, Dec 8 (AFP/APP):Viktor Bout, a notorious arms dealer who was released as a result of a US swap, arrived in Russia on Thursday, state television said. “Don’t worry, everything is OK, I love you very much,” he told his mother Raisa in comments broadcast […]

Moscow, Dec 7 (AFP/APP): President Vladimir Putin warned Wednesday of a drawn-out military intervention in Ukraine more than nine months into a conflict the Kremlin had hoped would end after a days-long assault on Kyiv. His comments came after Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said fresh […]

Paris, Dec 7 (AFP/APP):French prosecutors said Wednesday it was “impossible” to convict Air France and plane maker Airbus over the 2009 crash of a Rio-Paris flight, enraging victims’ families after an eight-week trial. In an unusual conclusion to proceedings, prosecutors said they could not recommend […]

Paris, Dec 7 (AFP/APP): Tesla owner Elon Musk briefly lost the top spot on Forbes’ billionaire list Wednesday to Bernard Arnault, whose family owns the world’s leading luxury group, LVMH. With US tech stocks sliding as interest rates and recession fears rise, Musk’s fortune briefly […]

Bogotá, Dec 6 (AFP/APP): At least six Colombian soldiers died Tuesday in clashes with holdout fighters from the former rebel group FARC, the army said. It was the worst attack by the renegade FARC fighters since they said in September they were willing to negotiate […]

Thessaloniki, Greece, Dec 6 (AFP/APP):Thousands of protesters demonstrated in Athens, Thessaloniki and other Greek cities on Tuesday against police violence, a day after a Roma youth was shot in the head in a police pursuit. The demonstrations were part of planned annual commemorations to mark […]

Kyiv, Ukraine, Dec 5 (AFP/APP):Ukraine was targeted on Monday by a new wave of fatal Russian missiles, the latest attack to cause massive power disruptions across the country and pile pressure on its embattled critical infrastructure as temperatures plunge. Moscow in turn blamed Ukraine for […]

Beirut, Dec 4 (AFP/APP):A protester and a policeman were killed Sunday in Syria’s southern city of Sweida as security forces cracked down on a rare demonstration by hundreds against deteriorating living conditions. Tensions were high in the regime-held city after protesters threw rocks at a […]