Scores, many sick, wait for their names to be called out as Rafah crossing point is opened for four days for humanitarian cases Egypt opened its border with Gaza on Wednesday, providing rare passage for thousands stuck in the coastal enclave who have lived under blockade for more than ... Read More »
WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to meet with North Korean officials, including leader Kim Jong Un’s sister, while in South Korea for the Winter Olympics this month but the North Koreans canceled at the last minute, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. “North Korea dangled ... Read More »
Threats include possibilities that are hard even to imagine, like the ability to generate entirely believable, but completely fake, videos The world is under threat from artificial intelligence and needs to do more to keep people safe, experts have urged. A new report compiled by 26 of the world’s ... Read More »
SEOUL: South Korea and the US will announce their plan for joint military drills before April, Seoul’s defense minister said on Tuesday. Asked when the two countries will hold their postponed military exercises, Song Young-moo told parliament he and his counterpart, Jim Mattis, would make an announcement after the Winter ... Read More »
The president ranks even below Richard Nixon Nearly 200 of America’s top political scientists have voted Donald Trump the worst president in US history. According to the 2018 Presidents & Executive Politics Presidential Greatness Survey, Mr Trump ranks even lower than disgraced President Richard Nixon – even among conservatives. ... Read More »
Aseman Airlines plane crashed en route from Tehran to Yasuj in severe weather conditions, according to state media reports All passengers and crew onboard an Iranian commercial flight died after the plane crashed amid severe weather conditions in a mountainous region in the south of the country, state ... Read More »
CAIRO: Three Egyptian soldiers have been killed in a 10-day-old campaign against militants focused on the Sinai peninsula, Egypt’s military said on Monday. It was the first time the military has reported its own casualties since it launched the operation on February 9. The statement did not say ... Read More »
Democrat speaks out on House committee’s Russia investigation The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee has said there is an “abundance” of information about possible Trump campaign collusion with Russia that the public has yet to see. “There is certainly an abundance of non-public information that we’ve gathered ... Read More »
The Israeli authorities must immediately release teenage activist Ahed Tamimi whose continued detention is a desperate attempt to intimidate Palestinian children who dare to stand up to repression by occupying forces, Amnesty International said. Ahed Tamimi’s trial is due to start tomorrow in Ofer juvenile military court in the occupied ... Read More »
INDIA has declared that Pakistan “will pay” for an attack on an army base in the Jammu region that killed at least six people, the country’s defence minister starkly warned. Nirmala Sitharaman declared that Pakistan was “expanding the arc of terror” following the devastating attack and vowed to avenge ... Read More »
Lebanese Ministry of Information