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Malaysian prisoners plead guilty to conspiring in 2002 Bali bombing
New York Times, Published on 18/01/2024
» GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Two Malaysian prisoners at Guantánamo Bay pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring in the October 2002 nightclub bombings in the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, which killed more than 200 people.
West African mission lands in coup-hit Niger
AFP, Published on 19/08/2023
» NIAMEY, NIger: A delegation from the West African Ecowas bloc arrived in Niger on Saturday seeking a peaceful rather than military solution after senior army officers seized power in a coup.
41 feared dead in Mediterranean migrant shipwreck
Published on 09/08/2023
» ROME: Forty-one migrants including three children are feared dead after a shipwreck last week in the Mediterranean, UN agencies said, citing four survivors brought to the Italian island of Lampedusa on Wednesday.
Burst dam upsets Odesa beach plan
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 09/07/2023
» Last summer, the beaches that ring the port city of Odesa in southern Ukraine were crowded with volunteers packing sandbags under bluffs where troops were positioned in machine gun nests as the threat of a Russian amphibious assault still loomed.
IMF links Sri Lanka bailout to tackling corruption
AFP, Published on 21/03/2023
» COLOMBO: Sri Lanka must not allow entrenched corruption to undermine a bailout for its bankrupt economy, the IMF said Tuesday after signing off on a $3 billion loan for the crisis-hit nation.
Israel raid on West Bank militants kills four Palestinians
AFP, Published on 17/03/2023
» JENIN (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Israeli forces on Thursday killed four Palestinians including a teenager in the occupied West Bank, the latest deadly raid on Jenin which Israel said targeted "armed suspects".
Two Israelis and Palestinian killed in West Bank amid Jordan talks
AFP, Published on 27/02/2023
» HUWARA (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) - Two Israelis living in a West Bank settlement were killed Sunday in a "Palestinian terror attack", officials said, sparking violence with a Palestinian man killed later while settlers torched homes in revenge.
Jailed Egypt hunger striker says 'doing well' in letter
AFP, Published on 14/11/2022
» CAIRO - Jailed British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah has written he is "doing well" and is taking liquids after fears rose for his health amid a months-long hunger strike, his family said Monday.
Biden, Xi seek to avoid conflict in hours-long summit talks
Published on 14/11/2022
» Presidents Joe Biden and Xi Jinping ended a landmark summit in Bali, Indonesia on Monday after three hours of talks aimed at avoiding conflict between the rival superpowers.
Jailed Egypt dissident's death in 'no one's interest', sister says
AFP, Published on 08/11/2022
» SHARM EL SHEIKH (EGYPT) - The possible death of jailed British-Egyptian dissident Alaa Abdel Fattah in prison is "in no one's interest", his sister Sanaa Seif said, nearly two days after he started refusing water.