Turkiye jails teen who added moustache to Erdogan poster
ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities on Tuesday seized and jailed a 16-year-old youth for drawing a moustache on an election campaign poster showing re-elected President…
Category: Middle East
US vice president Kamala Harris: Israel needs ‘independent judiciary’
WASHINGTON: US vice president Kamala Harris said on Tuesday that Israel’s democracy requires “an independent judiciary,” wading into the controversy over Prime Minister…
Fighter jets chase small plane in Washington area before it crashes in Virginia
WASHINGTON: The United States scrambled F-16 fighter jets in a supersonic chase of a light aircraft with an unresponsive pilot that violated airspace…
Palestinian residents ‘in constant fear’ over eviction threat
RAMALLAH: Residents of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the West Bank, are living in constant fear they will be forced from their…
Kuwaiti, UN official discuss global food security
KUWAIT: Mansour Alotaibi, Kuwait’s deputy foreign minister, met on Sunday with Abdullah Dashti, UN Coordinator for the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Kuwait News…
Netanyahu convenes Iran war drill, scorns UN nuclear watchdog
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ramped up threats to attack Iranian nuclear facilities on Sunday, convening a rare cabinet war drill after…
Sudan battle rages as Saudi Arabia, US urge new truce talks
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia and the US on Sunday made a renewed push for truce talks between Sudan’s warring generals as deadly fighting raged…
Blast at Palestinian base in Lebanon kills five: security source
BEIRUT: Five fighters from a pro-Syrian Palestinian militant group were killed in an accidental explosion at a base in eastern Lebanon, a Lebanese…
OIC welcomes extension of Sudan armistice
The Organization of Islamic Cooperation welcomed on Tuesday the decision reached during talks in Jeddah to extend the Sudan armistice and ceasefire for…