International
The new US embassy, one of Donald Trump’s most controversial promises, was inaugurated in Jerusalem. But this resulted in a bloodbath in Gaza. According to a provisional assessment, on Monday night, at least 55 Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire. More than 2,000 protesters were wounded on that day, the deadliest of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict […]
At least nine people were killed and 40 wounded on Sunday in bomb attacks, including a suicide attack, against churches in Surabaya, Indonesia, the most populous Muslim country in the world, police said. The three attacks were carried out in three different places at ten minutes intervals, the first explosion occurred at 07:30 (00:30 GMT), […]
On May 6, Tunisia will have its first municipal elections since the fall of President Ben Ali in 2011. Indeed Tunisians will go to the polls this Sunday, for the first free and democratic municipal elections in their history, in a tense political context. Unheard of in a country in the Arab world, the government […]
Two attacks in the capital of Somalia have killed many civilians and injured many others. A first report reported by the media shows at least 18 dead and 20 wounded. On October 14, the capital of Somalia had already been the scene of deadly attacks that had killed more than 500 people. United Nations Secretary-General […]
Twelve brothers and sisters whose children were found tied up, some with chains, hungry and dirty in a small California townhouse and their parents were incarcerated for torture, according to US police. The alert was given by the 13th person, a 17-year-old victim, who escaped from the Perris apartment, two hours southeast of Los Angeles. […]
Barely fifteen days old, Kinza whines quietly in a hospital in Islamabad, suffering from diarrhea and infection of the blood: water, increasingly rare in Pakistan, reaches dramatic levels of pollution, making tens of thousands of victims. Cloaked in a colorful blanket, Kinza moves in slow motion, like a tiny doll. His mother Sartaj, poorly dressed, […]
After the historically deadly attack on Friday in Bir el-Abed, north of Sinai, the country is in national mourning and this Saturday the first funerals will be held. A balance sheet still revised upwards. This Saturday, the latest assessment provided by the Egyptian authorities reports 305 deaths, including 27 children. The previous count reported 235 […]
Nearly 60 people were killed on Friday in two attacks on mosques in Afghanistan, one Shia in Kabul, the other Sunni in the center, ending a particularly deadly week across the country. The terrorist group Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the Shia mosque in Kabul, killing at least 39 people. The […]
The number of Rohingyas fleeing Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh has risen to 582,000 since 25 August, UN agencies said on Tuesday, warning that thousands more at the border. According to a spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Marixie Mercado, this is not a sudden influx of refugees but a more precise census of […]
Due to power cuts of more than 20 hours a day that have become a rule these days, the water crisis has prompted the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip to dig wells without authorization, ignoring consequences for serious threats to already scarce aquifer reserves. Omar Hamid, head of a family of nine, told Al-monitor, “the […]
