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French prosecutors have charged a 26-year-old schoolteacher on suspicion he translated religious chants into French for the Daesh group, the national anti-terror prosecutor’s office said this week. The man was indicted on February 16 over alleged “terrorist criminal conspiracy with a view to committing crimes against people,” the prosecutor’
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On Monday, the scope of the 142-day confrontation between Israel and Hezbollah Lebanon’s southern border expanded after Israeli warplanes raided two sites near the city of Baalbek. The strikes on the city, deep in the Bekaa, killed two people and lead to numerous injuries among Hezbollah members, civilians, and
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Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune officially inaugurated the Grand Mosque of Algiers, the third largest in the world and the biggest in Africa, on Sunday. The vast mosque, which can hold 120,000 worshippers, first opened for prayers in October 2020, but Tebboune was suffering from Covid-19 and did not attend.
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The United Kingdom on Friday signed an agreement with the EU border agency Frontex to jointly crack down on irregular immigration, the government in London said. Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has made stopping migrants from crossing the Channel on boats from France a priority before a general election due
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Russian forces have advanced further to the west after taking control of the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka, the defense ministry said on Friday. It said Russian forces had also destroyed a number of Western-provided Ukrainian weapons in the past week including seven British-supplied Storm Shadow cruise missiles, a US Patriot
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Five migrants, including a woman, died when their boat capsized as they were being rescued off Malta on Friday, the island’s armed forces said. Another eight were injured and taken to hospital, including two who swallowed a considerable amount of seawater and fuel. Armed Forces of Malta deputy commander
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President Volodymyr Zelensky downplayed Ukraine’s loss of the eastern town of Avdiivka to Russian forces and called for faster support from allies as the war against Russia neared the two-year mark, in comments broadcast on Wednesday. Russian troops took control of Avdiivka last week in Moscow’s biggest battlefield
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More than two thousand people have been ordered to evacuate from towns in the west of Australia’s Victoria state due to a bushfire burning out of control on Thursday. The state emergency service urged residents in the towns of Raglan and Beaufort, home to around two thousand people, and
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The Greek-flagged bulker Sea Champion arrived in the southern Yemeni Port of Aden on Tuesday after being attacked in the Red Sea in what appeared to have been a mistaken missile strike by the Houthi militia, sources said. Shipping risks are escalating due to repeated drone and missile strikes in
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Two people were killed Tuesday in a strike in northern Iraq that was blamed on Turkiye, security and health officials said. Turkiye frequently carries out ground and air offensives on positions of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) — which has waged a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state — in northern Iraq.
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The Home Office is investigating after a baby's birth certificate was returned with the word "Israel" crossed out in a passport application. The Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) shared an image on X of the document, which also shows signs of being torn. The baby's
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U.S. President Joe Biden said Monday he is “considering additional sanctions” against Moscow following the death of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny. “We already have sanctions,” Biden told reporters at the White House, but the United States is looking at others. He had already directly blamed Russian President
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Chinese coast guard officials briefly boarded a Taiwanese ship Monday, Taipei said, after Beijing announced it would step up patrols following a boat incident in which two Chinese nationals died. The boat was carrying four Chinese nationals when it capsized last week near Taiwan's Kinmen islands while pursued
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Long, cold months have passed since an earthquake levelled Abdallah Oubelaid’s impoverished village in Morocco’s High Atlas mountains. Every day, he or other villagers come to inspect the debris. They hope to find pieces of wood for heating and cooking, or even to recover objects of value that
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The UN special envoy for Libya warned the country’s feuding political actors on Thursday that if they don’t urgently form a unified government and move toward elections the North African nation will slide into “disintegration.” Abdoulaye Bathily told the UN Security Council there are numerous alarming signs of
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Italy is reporting an influx of Sudanese refugees who are fleeing the civil war in their country and crossing the Mediterranean Sea, The Times reported. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told ministers in Rome: “Sudanese refugees are no longer stopping in Egypt but heading for Libya and from there coming to