The trial, criticised by rights groups and decried by a defence lawyer as a “masquerade”, is of unprecedented scale with around 40 defendants, including vocal critics of President Kais Saied. They were found guilty of “conspiracy against state security” and “belonging to a terrorist group”, and received sentences ranging from 13 to 66 years, an […]
Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani was also present at the meeting with Republican Cory Mills at the presidential palace in Damascus, a presidency statement said. Mills arrived in Syria on Friday along with Marlin Stutzman, another politician from the Republican party of US President Donald Trump. In late December, less than two weeks after a coalition […]
Hundreds of passengers were crowded onto a wooden boat on the Congo River near Mbandaka, capital of Equateur Province, on Tuesday when an explosion caused by a cooking fire ignited a larger blaze, according to Josephine-Pacifique Lokumu, head of a delegation of national deputies from the region. “A first group of 131 bodies was found […]
According to the Foreign Office, this high-level visit reflects the deep-rooted, fraternal relations between Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. It also underscores the two countries’ shared commitment to strengthening bilateral cooperation across all areas of mutual interest. The Foreign Office Spokesperson said Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of […]
More than half of the casualties were in Gaza City and northern Gaza, but deadly attacks took place across the Palestinian Strip, including in Khan Younis and Rafah in the south. The Israeli military said troops were operating in the Shaboura and Tal as-Sultan areas near Rafah, as well as in northern Gaza, where Israel […]
Israeli officials have vowed to prevent Tehran from acquiring a nuclear weapon, and Netanyahu has insisted that any negotiation with Iran must lead to the complete dismantling of its nuclear program. U.S. and Iranian negotiators are set for a second round of preliminary nuclear talks in Rome on Saturday. Over the past months, Israel has […]
Washington has had troops in Syria for years as part of international efforts against the Islamic State (IS) group, which rose out of the chaos of the country’s civil war to seize swaths of territory there and in neighboring Iraq over a decade ago. They have since suffered major defeats in both countries but remain […]
Araghchi, who is slated to hold a second round of Oman-mediated talks with US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff, was shown disembarking from an Islamic Republic airplane. The United States and Iran are set to resume high-stakes talks Saturday on Tehran’s nuclear programme, a week after an initial round of discussions that both sides described […]
U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy’s preliminary injunction was the latest setback to an immigration crackdown launched by President Donald Trump when he took office on January 20. The Boston-based judge last month temporarily blocked the administration from fast-tracking deportations, hobbling its ability to remove migrants who, in some cases, have legal protections preventing them from […]
“Quickly, we want to get it done,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “Now, if for some reason one of the two parties makes it very difficult, we’re just going to say, ‘you’re foolish, you’re fools, you’re horrible people, and we’re going to just take a pass. But hopefully we won’t have to do […]
