Author: Zaynab Khojji ID: 1581186910286683700 Sat, 2020-02-08 21:34 CAIRO: Last week’s foiling by police of an attempt to smuggle 269 artifacts out of Egypt was just the latest in a series of such incidents. One such attempt that succeeded was … read more
Author: Zaynab Khojji ID: 1581181527786300800 Sat, 2020-02-08 20:04 LONDON: Russian claims that the UN weapons watchdog manipulated evidence of a Syrian government chemical weapons attack have been undermined by an official inquiry showing that two former UN employees hailed as … read more
Sat, 2020-02-08 16:07 SANAA: A second medical evacuation flight carrying 24 critically ill Yemenis left the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Saturday, the World Health Organization said. “The flight just took off from Sanaa headed to Amman,” a WHO spokesperson told AFP. … read more
Author: Fri, 2020-02-07 23:13 KARBALA, BAGHDAD: Iraq’s top Shiite cleric on Friday condemned recent deadly attacks on anti-government demonstrators, chastising security forces for not doing more to prevent violence in protest squares across the country. Eight demonstrators were killed this … read more
Author: Zaynab Khojji ID: 1581100202560084000 Fri, 2020-02-07 21:28 LONDON: Military operations in northwest Syria have caused “unacceptable” human suffering and “massive waves of civilian displacement and major loss of civilian life,” the UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen told … read more