Author: Wed, 2019-03-20 21:16 CAIRO: A water crisis brewing between Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan over a contentious Nile dam could escalate into a conflict with “severe humanitarian consequences”, a think-tank said on Wednesday. Egypt, which relies almost totally on the Nile … read more
Author: Tue, 2019-03-19 22:36 GAZA: One year on from the start of Gaza’s border protests, the weekly clashes with Israeli soldiers have become part of the texture of life in the Palestinian enclave, providing inspiration and even raw materials for local … read more
Author: By FARES AKRAM | AP ID: 1553023466777366300 Tue, 2019-03-19 19:18 GAZA CITY: Hamas is facing the biggest demonstrations yet against its 12-year rule of the Gaza Strip, with hundreds of Palestinians taking to the streets in recent days to … read more
Tue, 2019-03-19 21:33 LONDON: An airliner caught fire on landing at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport on Tuesday but all 100 passengers were evacuated without injury, the head of Iran’s emergency department said on state television. Pir-Hossein Kolivand said the fire broke … read more
Tue, 2019-03-19 19:24 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations will present a new plan for the pullback of forces from Yemen’s flashpoint city of Hodeidah following talks with the government and the Houthis, a UN envoy said Tuesday. The redeployment of forces … read more