AFP : President Emmanuel Macron weathered a turbulent political summer, but he feels isolated and is frustrated with his new...
Day: October 14, 2024
Agency : Western leaders urged Israel Friday to stop harming UN peacekeepers in Lebanon after explosions wounded two of them near the country’s border.The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said on Saturday that unknown gunfire a day earlier hit a peacekeeper, the fifth wounded in south Lebanon near the Israeli border in just two days.The Israeli military (IDF) said its forces on Friday fired at a threat near a UN peacekeeping mission position.A spokeswoman for the UNIFIL mission...
AFP : Inter-communal clashes in southeastern Kenya have killed at least 18 people in the past two weeks, police said Saturday, as security was boosted in the affected areas.Interior Minister Kithure Kindiki on Friday declared 12 areas of Tana River County “dangerous and disturbed” due to the clashes, which have pitted communities of pastoralists against resettled flood victims.Kenya’s national police chief Douglas Kanja ordered residents to surrender their firearms to prevent a further escalation of violence....
Gulf Today : At least 16 people, including three women and two children, were killed in a fresh sectarian clash...
AFP : A senior politician in India’s financial capital Mumbai was shot dead on Saturday.The incident comes just weeks before key state elections, with police probing the role of a notorious crime gang.Baba Siddique, 66, a local lawmaker and former minister in Maharashtra state, was shot multiple times in the chest outside his son’s office in Mumbai.Maharashtra’s deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar, said that he was shocked by the cowardly attack.The Hindustan Times newspaper reported that two suspected attackers had...
Reuters : Iran said on Sunday that it has “no red lines” in defending itself, as the Middle East anxiously...