DOHA – Qatar has been monitoring radiation levels in the Gulf as Israeli air strikes pound Iranian nuclear facilities, a foreign ministry spokesman said on Tuesday. “We are monitoring this on a daily basis,” foreign ministry spokesman Majed al-Ansari told a news conference. “We have nothing to be concerned about right now, but obviously prolonged...
TEHRAN – Israel and Iran exchanged missile fire for a fifth consecutive day Tuesday, as US president Donald Trump abruptly left the G7 summit and warned Tehran residents to “immediately evacuate” amid rising fears of a wider conflict. The Israeli military said it targeted multiple missile and UAV sites in western Iran, including surface-to-surface missile...
VIENNA – Israel’s strikes on Iran have targeted several of its nuclear facilities, as it claims the Islamic republic is seeking to develop nuclear weapons — an accusation Tehran denies. Experts told AFP that while the attacks have caused some damage to Iran’s nuclear programme, they are unlikely to have delivered a fatal blow. Here...
ISTANBUL – Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of threatening security in the Middle East during a phone call with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Monday, his office said.“The spiral of violence that began with Israel’s attacks on Iran has put the security of the entire region at risk,” Erdogan was quoted as saying.His...
JERUSALEM – Iran launched missiles at Israeli cities Monday after Israeli strikes deep inside the Islamic Republic, raising Israel’s death toll by 11 on day four of an escalating air war. After decades of enmity and a prolonged shadow war, Israel on Friday launched a surprise aerial campaign targeting sites across Iran, saying the attacks...
KIGALI – A peace deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, being brokered by the United States, will no longer be signed on 15 June, Rwanda’s foreign minister said on Saturday. M23 fighters, who UN experts and the United States say have received military support from Rwanda, have made rapid advances in eastern...
JOHANNESBURG – Rescue teams on Saturday recovered more victims of heavy flooding that struck South Africa’s Eastern Cape province earlier in the week, with the death toll rising to at least 86.President Cyril Ramaphosa visited the poverty-stricken province on Friday and said the “catastrophic disaster” was due to climate change.Police minister Senzo Mchunu said on...
DAKAR – A separatist coalition fought Malian troops backed by Moscow-run mercenaries in the north of the country on Friday, both sides and local sources said. The deadly clashes, involving the separatist Azawad Liberation Front (FLA) and the Moscow-run Africa Corps, follows a series of attacks on the military in recent weeks.In a statement on...
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump hosted the largest US military parade in decades on his 79th birthday as protesters rallied across the country to accuse him of acting like a dictator. Trump hailed the United States as the “hottest country in the world” after watching tanks, aircraft and troops file past him in Washington on...
LONDON – UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer yesterday called the scenes of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad “devastating”, adding “my thoughts are with the passengers and their families”. “The scenes emerging of a London-bound plane carrying many British nationals crashing in the Indian city of Ahmedabad are devastating,” Starmer said in a statement...