KHARTOUM, Sudan: At least 14 workers are dead after a gold mine collapsed in northern Sudan, state mining authorities said Friday.
According to the state-run news agency, SUNA, the fatal collapse happened after one of the hillsides that surround the Jebel Al-Ahmar gold mine — situated near the Egyptian border — gave way Thursday afternoon.
Many other miners are still missing among the rubble, it said.
Witnesses cited by SUNA said the workers were searching inside mining wells for gold using heavy machinery which caused the collapse.

DAMASCUS: Iran’s Revolutionary Guard said in a statement that one of their military advisers was killed in an Israeli attack on the Syrian capital Damascus on Friday, Iranian media reported.
“The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has announced the martyrdom of guardsman Milad Haydari, one of the IRGC’s military advisers and officers, in the criminal attack of the Zionust regime on the outskirts of Damascus at dawn today,” the media quoted an IRGC statement.

RAMALLAH: The Israeli army has allowed settlers to organize the largest demonstration in the northern West Bank in years on April 10, in which dozens of settler organizations will participate.

The Israeli Channel Seven reported that the army agreed to a request by the Nakhla settler organization to hold a massive demonstration that would start from the Za’tara checkpoint, south of Nablus, and proceed toward the Avitar settlement outpost built on Mount Sabih, where the army would provide security for the march.

BEIRUT: Military pensioners and angry public sector workers held demonstrations on Thursday after being told that their already eroded pay had effectively been cut in half overnight.
The cut will take effect in April when the government calculates salaries using an exchange rate of one US dollar to 90,000 Lebanese pounds, double the rate used in February. The black-market rate, which many shops use, is now more than 100,000 pounds to the dollar. Four years ago, it was closer to 2,000.

CAIRO: On the commemoration of the 47th Palestinian Land Day, the Arab League has called on the international community to take serious measures to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
The AL’s General Secretariat underlined the need to grant Palestinians the right to freedom and independence, reported Kuwait News Agency on Thursday.