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A wall collapse at a school in Tunisia killed three high-school students and seriously injured two others on Monday, the civil defense rescue agency said. “The collapse of a dilapidated wall today led to the death of three students, aged between 18 and 19,” in Tunisia’s central Sidi Bouzid,
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The head of a US-funded Arabic-language television and online news outlet that claims a 30 million-strong audience in the Middle East and North Africa terminated most staff and TV programming Saturday, accusing the Trump administration and Elon Musk of having “irresponsibly and unlawfully” cut off funding. In notices to Alhurra
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US President Donald Trump on Sunday said a Russian strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy that killed at least 34 people was “a horrible thing.” “I think it was terrible. And I was told they made a mistake. But I think it’s a horrible thing. I think the
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South Korea’s former president Yoon Suk Yeol denied he had committed insurrection Monday, as the impeached leader appeared in court on the first day of his criminal trial over his martial law declaration. Yoon was formally stripped of office earlier this month, after being impeached and suspended by lawmakers
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A powerful armed faction in southern Syrian Arab Republic led by defected military officer Ahmed Al-Awdeh announced on Sunday that it was dissolving itself and integrating into the government’s armed forces. The Eighth Brigade, the most prominent armed faction in southern Syria, announced its dissolution and placed its weapons
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Israel’s military said Friday it will fire air force reservists who signed an open letter that condemns the war in Gaza for mainly serving political interests while failing to bring home the hostages. In a statement to The Associated Press, an army official said there was no room for
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More than 100 Chinese citizens fighting for the Russian military against Ukraine are mercenaries who do not appear to have a direct link to China’s government, two US officials familiar with American intelligence and a former Western intelligence official said. Chinese military officers have, however, been in the theater
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Frustration grew Friday in the Dominican Republic as families of some of the 222 people killed in a nightclub roof collapse three days earlier waited for their loved ones’ bodies to be identified. Dozens of desperate relatives waited in tents at the forensic morgue in Santo Domingo, the capital city
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South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has replaced its foreign minister with his deputy, Monday Semaya Kumba, state media reported, following a migration dispute with the United States. No explanation was given for the sacking of Foreign Minister Ramadan Mohammed, which was announced on the state radio station late on
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The Trump administration has added over 6,000 immigrants to a database of dead Social Security recipients, effectively cutting off benefits and their ability to work, US media reported Thursday. Adding the immigrants to the so-called “death file” is “aimed at putting pressure on the undocumented immigrants to leave the
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Germany’s Siemens said on Friday that Agustin Escobar, the company’s global CEO for its Rail Infrastructure division, was killed with his family in a New York helicopter crash on Thursday. “We are deeply saddened by the tragic helicopter crash that claimed the lives of Agustin Escobar and his
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The Taliban’s morality police have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles, and others for missing prayers at mosques during Ramadan, a UN report said Thursday, 6 months after laws regulating people’s conduct came into effect. The Vice and Virtue Ministry published laws last August covering many aspects
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Israel said Wednesday its troops are seizing “large areas” in Gaza and making the Palestinian territory “smaller and more isolated,” as an air strike on a residential block killed at least 23 people. Defense Minister Israel Katz’s comments come weeks into a renewed offensive by the military on the
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Pope Francis met privately with King Charles III and Queen Camilla on Wednesday at the Vatican during the royal couple’s four-day state visit to Italy and on the occasion of their 20th wedding anniversary, the Vatican announced. It was the first known meeting since the pope’s return to
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that Ukraine continues to strike Russian energy infrastructure on a daily basis, in violation of a US-brokered 30 day moratorium on strikes on energy infrastructure. Russia and Ukraine have both accused each other of violating the pause on strikes. Reuters was
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Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday. The deaths last month are among the first to be directly attributed