Muhamad Yehia ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — Houses swept away to the very last brick. Inmates frantically fleeing the city’s main prison as its walls got washed away by water rising from an overflowing dam. Corpses of crocodiles and snakes floating among human bodies on what used to be main …
Read More »World leaders meet under shadow of global divisions, 3 wars
Muhamad Yehia UNITED NATIONS (AP) — World leaders will open their annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday under the shadow of increasing global divisions, major wars in Gaza, Ukraine and, Sudan and the threat of an even larger conflict in the wider Middle East Secretary-General Antonio Guterres previewed his opening “State of …
Read More »Several Mark Robinson campaign staffers quit as fallout over online posts continues
Muhamad yehia RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several top staffers in North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign for governor have quit their posts, marking more fallout from a CNN report outlining evidence that he made disturbing posts on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago. The …
Read More »Egypt to sell United Bank stake by end of March, c.bank says
Muhamad yehia CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s central bank aims to sell shares in state-owned United Bank in an initial public offering (IPO) on the stock exchange by the end of March, it said in a statement on Sunday. It did not say how big the stake would be and said …
Read More »Hezbollah, Israel exchange heavy fire after deadly Israeli strike
Muhamad Yehia Israel says it hit 290 targets, destroyed rocket launchers Hezbollah says it targeted airbase with dozens of missiles Hezbollah says 16 members killed in Friday strike Iran-backed group in Iraq reports attacks on Israel BEIRUT/HAIFA, Israel, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Israel and Hezbollah exchanged heavy fire into Sunday, …
Read More »Kenya’s Ruto open to converting Haiti mission to U.N.
Muhamad Yehia PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Kenyan President William Ruto, on a visit to Haiti, said on Saturday that he was open to Kenya’s anti-gang mission in the country being converted to a full U.N. peacekeeping operation. Ruto visited Haiti to assess the progress of the Multinational Security Support …
Read More »UN chief Guterres ‘gravely alarmed’ by reports of RSF assault on al-Fashir
Muhamad Yehia UNITED NATIONS, Sept 21 (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “gravely alarmed” by reports of a full-scale assault on the Sudanese city of al-Fashir by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and called on its leader to halt the attack immediately, a U.N. spokesperson said on …
Read More »In Nigeria’s food belt, fears of another flood as Cameroon opens dam
BENUE, Nigeria, Sept 20 (Reuters) – Nigerian farmer Enoch Fater has barely slept in the last few days after water levels started rising at his paddy rice farm and in a major river nearby, pointing to impending floods in Benue state, a major food producer in the central belt. Two …
Read More »Hezbollah leaders among 37 killed in Israeli strike in Lebanon
Sahar ragab BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Two Hezbollah leaders were among those killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb , Israel’s military said Saturday, as Lebanon raised the death toll from the attack to 37, including women and children. Israel and Hezbollah continued to trade fire Saturday, a day after …
Read More »Iran condemns a Taliban delegate’s failure to stand for the Iranian national anthem
Iran expressed its deep displeasure Friday over a Taliban delegate’s failure to stand during the Iranian national anthem at an event in Tehran, state-run media said, following a similar incident in Pakistan earlier in the week. The incident involving the Taliban delegate to the Islamic Unity Conference in the Iranian …
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