Author: AFP ID: 1581445821601567000 Tue, 2020-02-11 17:45 BAGHDAD: Residents of Baghdad rushed to have snowball fights or take photographs Tuesday as the Iraqi capital woke carpeted in white by only its second snowfall in a century. The last recorded snowfall … read more
Author: Jay Deshmukh and Abdelmoneim Abu Idris Ali | AFP ID: 1581436469810841900 Tue, 2020-02-11 15:50 KHARTOUM: Sudan has agreed to hand ousted autocrat Omar Al-Bashir and others to the International Criminal Court for alleged war crimes in Darfur, a member … read more
Tue, 2020-02-11 18:34 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rejected US President Donald Trump’s peace plan on Tuesday during a meeting of the UN Security Council, but withheld a resolution urging the UN’s rejection of it. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres opened the … read more
Author: AFP ID: 1581435291250736800 Tue, 2020-02-11 15:33 BAGHDAD: Iraqi cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr announced on Tuesday he was dissolving the “blue caps”, an organised unit of his supporters accused of deadly attacks on anti-government protests in recent days. Al-Sadr, who has … read more
Author: Mon, 2020-02-10 22:44 ALGIERS: An Algerian military court on Monday confirmed a 15-year jail term for the brother of former president Abdelaziz Bouteflika and two former intelligence chiefs convicted of conspiracy against the state, a lawyer said. “Said Bouteflika, … read more