The Hague, Sep 25 (IANS) As many as 1,027 people were arrested in a large-scale police operation against drug and human traffickers across Europe this month, the Hague-based European police organisation Europol announced Wednesday. Law enforcement officers from 34 countries took part in the largest-ever coordinated operation against organised crime in the European Union (EU), Xinhua […]
Jerusalem, Sep 25 (IANS/EFE) At least 20 Palestinians and four Israelis were injured Wednesday when clashes broke out at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, a holy place to Jews and Muslims. Palestinian youths battled with Israeli police following the visit of Israel’s ultranationalist Housing Minister, Uri Ariel, to Temple Mount early Wednesday. The Jewish New […]
Sanaa, Sep 25 (IANS/EFE) The toll in last week’s heavy fighting between Shia Houthi rebels and government forces in Yemen’s capital Sanaa has risen to 270, as rescue teams recovered more bodies, authorities said Wednesday. At least 270 bodies of civilians and military personnel have been recovered in the neighbourhoods of north and west Sanaa where […]
Beijing, Sep 25 (IANS) China Wednesday voiced firm opposition after the US state department slammed the life sentence given to a scholar from Uygur ethnic group for separatism in China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. “Ilham Tohti’s crime is clear, with solid evidence,” Xinhua quoted Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying as saying, adding that the case […]
Baghdad, Sep 24 (IANS) At least 59 people were killed in separate airstrikes and clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants across Iraq Wednesday, while the militants blew two archeological and religious sites in Salahudin province, security sources said. In Iraq’s eastern province of Diyala, Iraqi security forces backed by Shia militias recaptured two villages of […]
Washington, Sep 24 (IANS/EFE) US President Barack Obama Tuesday announced measures to help other countries fight climate change, saying that it is necessary to adopt an ambitious worldwide accord in which all countries are involved. “We recognise our role in creating this problem, we embrace our responsibility to combat it. We will do our part, and […]
Paris, Sep 24 (IANS) French President Francois Hollande Tuesday expressed hope that Western leaders’ negotiations with Iran over its nuclear plan will lead to a lasting compromise to lift sanctions against Tehran. At the United Nations annual gathering in New York, Hollande met his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani and held talks on negotiations between P5+1 countries […]
Geneva, Sep 24 (IANS) The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) Tuesday said it provided food assistance to more than one million civilians across Iraq who were displaced since conflict erupted in mid-June, despite a challenging security situation and the continuous movement of people. “With the help of our partners, we managed to scale up and […]
United Nations, Sep 24 (IANS) UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will convene a meeting of world leaders during the General Assembly’s annual high-level session in response to the deadly Ebola virus outbreak, a UN spokesman said Tuesday. The “High-level Meeting on Response to the Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak” is scheduled at the UN headquarters in New York […]
Washington, Sep 24 (IANS/EFE) The United States announced Tuesday that it will no longer use anti-personnel landmines outside the Korean Peninsula. “Today’s announcement also means that we will not assist, encourage, or induce others to use, stockpile, produce or transfer anti-personnel landmines outside of the Korean Peninsula,” Efe quoted State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki as saying. […]