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DAMASCUS – August 19 (ONLINE) Nine people were killed including at least five children in a rocket attack on a market in the northern Syrian city of Al-Bab on Friday, according to emergency responders working in rebel-held areas. The White Helmets, a rescue group working […]

Odessa, Ukraine, Aug 19 (AFP/APP): Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed for a team of independent inspectors to travel to the Moscow-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant via Ukraine, the French presidency said on Friday. The apparent resolution of a dispute over whether inspectors travel to the […]

Tokyo, Aug 17 (AFP/APP): A board member for the Tokyo Olympics was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of taking bribes, prosecutors said, along with three other men connected to the scandal. Haruyuki Takahashi allegedly received $380,000 from high-street business-suit retailer Aoki Holdings, an official partner of […]

Cairo, Aug 17 (AFP/APP): An electrical fire that turned a crowded Cairo church into a deathtrap highlights a persistent problem, say Coptic Christians in majority-Muslim Egypt — a struggle to build or renovate their places of worship. The residential-style multi-storey building housing the Abu Sifin […]

Yangon, Aug 15 (AFP/APP):A Myanmar junta court jailed Aung San Suu Kyi for six years for corruption on Monday, a source close to the case said, taking the ousted leader’s prison time to 17 years. Suu Kyi, 77, has been detained since the generals toppled […]

Tunis, Aug 15 (AFP/APP): Tunisian authorities said Monday they intercepted or rescued more than 650 migrants trying to reach Europe by sea at the weekend, the latest of numerous such cases in the past two months. Tunisia and Libya are the main points of departure […]

Cairo, Aug 14 (AFP/APP): More than 40 people died when fire ripped through a Cairo-area Coptic Christian church during Sunday mass, forcing worshippers to jump out windows while bystanders braved flames and smoke to save children. The blaze, blamed on an electrical fault, hit the […]

Yerevan, Aug 14 (AFP/APP): An explosion at a market in the Armenian capital Yerevan sparked a fire and left victims, the emergency situations ministry said on Sunday. The blast, the cause of which was not immediately known, ripped through the “retail market in Surmalu. According […]

Sydney, Aug 14 (AFP/APP): A gunman fired around five shots inside Canberra’s main airport Sunday, sending passengers fleeing but injuring no one before he was detained by Australian police. Images posted on social media showed a police officer restraining a man on the ground inside […]

Jerusalem, Aug 14 (AFP/APP): Israeli police Sunday arrested a suspect in a pre-dawn shooting spree targeting a bus just outside Jerusalem’s Old City that wounded eight people, including a pregnant woman and several US citizens. “The terrorist is in our hands,” police spokesman Kan Eli […]