Ten bodies found in migrant boat
BSS :Ten people were found dead in an overcrowded ship carrying migrants off the coast of Libya, and were believed to have suffocated, the Doctors Without Borders charity has said.The charity said late on...
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Argentine gov’t loses congress majority, seeks opposition dialogue
BSS : Argentina’s center-left President Alberto Fernandez called for dialogue with the opposition after Sunday’s midterm parliamentary elections, with projections showing his governing coalition has lost control of Congress.Having already held a minority in...
Iraq to start repatriating citizens in Belarus from Thursday
BSS : The Iraqi government said it was organising a repatriation flight this Thursday for its citizens stuck on thePoland-Belarus border on a “voluntary” basis. “Iraq will carry out a first flight for those...
Death toll in Texas concert tragedy rises to 10
BSS : The death toll from a lethal crowd surge at a rap concert in Texas has risen to 10, a lawyer for the victims said on Sunday, after a nine-year-old boy trampled during...
Trump Organisation to sell Washington hotel for $375 mn: US media
BSS : The Trump Organization has reached a deal to sell its Washington hotel lease for $375 million to CGI Merchant Group, which plans to remove ex-president Donald Trump’s name from the luxury property’s...
Suspected insurgents kill at least 20 in Burkina Faso
BSS : Suspected insurgents killed at least 19 gendarmes and a civilian in an attack early Sunday in northern Burkina Faso, officials said.The pre-dawn attack, one of the deadliest to hit Burkinabe defence and...
Western countries slam Belarus over ‘destabilizing’ migrant crisis
BSS :European countries and the US condemned Belarus Thursday over a crisis that has seen hundreds of migrants trapped on its border with Poland, after an emergency meeting at theUN Security Council on the...
Water scarcity reaches crisis point in northern Syria
Al Jazeera :For 71 of his 81 years, Abu Mohammad Sheikh Hussein has been farming the land in northeast Syria. These last two years have seen some of the lowest water levels in his...
US calls to release embassy staffers
BSS :Most of the detainees have in fact been released but the rebels continue to hold Yemeni employees of the embassy, the spokesperson said. “We are concerned that Yemeni staff of the US Embassy...
Aussies firm recalls over 2m Covid tests
BSS :An Australian medical tech manufacturer has recalled more than two million at-home Covid-19 tests shipped to the United States after finding an increased chance of false positives.The US Food and Drug Administration issued...
Pakistan hosts US, China, Russia to discuss Afghanistan
Al Jazeera :Pakistan has hosted senior diplomats from the United States, China and Russia in Islamabad to discuss the situation in neighbouring Afghanistan, where a deepening humanitarian crisis has forced many Afghans to migrate...
Iran ready for Nuclear talks
BSS :Iran is ready to reach a “good agreement” on the nuclear issue at negotiations due to get underway in Vienna later this month, the country’s foreign minister said on Wednesday.In a tweet, Hossein...