Headlines
  • At least five ballistic missile launches from Iran have been detected by the Israelis since midnight.
  • Mehrabad Airport in Tehran is hit by strikes
  • The Prince Sultan Air Base was the target of a ballistic missile that Saudi Arabia's military intercepted and destroyed, according to the country's defense ministry.
  • Heavy gunfire on Friday injured three peacekeepers from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon inside their base in southwest Lebanon.
  • To put an end to the bloodshed, UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged serious diplomatic negotiations..
  • In a social media post, President Trump said that "no deal" other than "unconditional surrender" will be with Iran.
  • Iran reportedly receives intelligence from Russia on US targets.

Category: News & Views

December 17, 2018

Amba Fighting Amba: The Guzang Incident,...

The spokesman of the ADF, Tapang Ivo had earlier claimed the fighters were killed by Cameroon soldiers but CNA has gathered that it was an in-house fighting that got it’s roots months ago

Mexico Begins Mayan Train Project

Environmentalists are concerned about the impact the train will have on the five southeastern Mexican states

December 16, 2018

Father: Strasbourg Attacker Supported IS Group

Abdelkrim Chekatt, a French-Algerian, said he’d tried in the past to dissuade his son from backing the Islamic State, saying, “You don’t see the atrocities they commit.” The son would reply that “it’s not them,” the father said

December 12, 2018

Twitter CEO Acknowledges Suffering of Myanmar’s...

Dorsey responded Wednesday that he was “aware of the human rights atrocities and suffering in Myanmar,” and that he did not “intend to diminish them by not raising the issue.”

Dozens Arrested in Raids on Kurdish...

Xaje Kiye, the head of HDP in Van province, warned that the strikes would continue and might expand if Turkish authorities did not address their concerns about Ocalan’s living conditions

December 10, 2018

Why One Philippine Island Can’t Get...

When martial law first took effect in 2017, citizens worried it would bring back the harsher measures taken by authoritarian former president Ferdinand Marcos in 1972 to stop plots against his government

MARRAKECH :United Nations-Led Conference on Migration

It was born out of the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants, adopted unanimously by the UN General Assembly in September 2016, and is the culmination of 18 months of discussions and consultations among Member States, and other actors, including national and local officials, civil society, private and public sectors and migrants

December 9, 2018

Paris Cleans Up After Latest Yellow...

The number of injured in Paris and nationwide was down Saturday from protest riots a week ago, and most of the capital remained untouched

Girls’ Deaths Alert Cambodia to Human...

Nhep Sopheap, secretary-general at the Cambodia National Council for Children (CNCC), a government body, said she was “very concerned” about the effects on children of poverty and migration. She said the rape of children was of particular worry

December 7, 2018

Bread Shortage Feared in Zimbabwe as...

Zimbabwe’s economy has been ailing since the early 2000s when the country’s farm sector went into a nosedive. Both cash and basic goods are increasingly in short supply, prompting calls for the government to fix the situation

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