Thu, 2019-06-20 23:08 LONDON: The World Food Programme has begun the partial suspension of aid in areas of Yemen under Houthi control. The move announced Thursday comes after the UN agency warned this week that the Iran-backed militia was diverting … read more
Author: Thu, 2019-06-20 20:41 CAIRO: A Libyan commander, whose forces are fighting to take the country’s capital of Tripoli from militias allied with a UN-backed government based there, has dismissed an initiative by its prime minister for negotiations to end the … read more
Author: Thu, 2019-06-20 00:49 TUNIS: Tunisia has allowed dozens of migrants, mostly from Bangladesh, to disembark after three weeks stranded in the Mediterranean, so that they can return to their home countries, the Red Crescent said on Wednesday. An Egyptian boat … read more
Author: Thu, 2019-06-20 00:39 FOUSSANA/TUNISIA: Standing near the shrine of the Sufi scholar Sidi Boughanem in western Tunisia, Karim points to the earth below his feet. “There are stairs under the ground,” he said. “We started digging, but we had to … read more
Author: Thu, 2019-06-20 00:30 TRIPOLI: Libya’s National Oil Company deplored an air raid that on Tuesday evening destroyed a warehouse operated by a subsidiary and wounded three personnel near Tripoli. “A warehouse owned by subsidiary Mellitah Oil & Gas Company (MOG) … read more