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UN: Cholera cases rises beyond 5,000 in South Sudan
Date: 2017-03-11 07:14:43 GMT - USA - Arab world - SN:4 - ID:6671333
The United Nations said on Friday that South Sudan's cholera outbreak has reached the country's second-largest city, as the number of cases nationwide rises beyond 5,500, the Voice of America (VOA) reported. The UN humanitarian agency said Friday ....
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Trump invites Palestinian president to White House
Date: 2017-03-11 07:13:14 GMT - palestine - Arab world - SN:3 - ID:6671325
US President Donald Trump on Friday invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas for a visit to the White House, said the spokesman for the Palestinian president, Nabil Abu Rudeineh. During a phone conversation, President Trump invited President ....
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Int’l coalition jets kill three Daesh leaders in Mosul
Date: 2017-03-11 07:11:58 GMT - Iraq - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:6671317
The US-led international coalition's warplanes attacked important sites occupied by Daesh terrorists in Mosul and killed three senior leaders, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said on Friday. In a press release, the ministry's spokesman, Laith ....
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Another S. Korean protester dies after participating in pro-Park rally
Date: 2017-03-11 07:10:30 GMT - south korea - International - SN:1 - ID:6671309
Another person died on Saturday due to injuries apparently sustained during a violent protest a day earlier to oppose the Constitutional Court's decision to oust President Park Geun-hye, raising the death toll to three. The 74-year-old person, ....
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FSA-SDF clashes in Rif Aleppo end up with casualties
Date: 2017-03-10 09:26:31 GMT - Syria - Arab world - SN:6 - ID:6667529
Free Syrian Army (FSA) sources said on Friday that fierce clashes broke out between the Ankara-backed FSA and the Washington-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in various parts of Rif Aleppo in northern Syria, leaving behind many people killed ....
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Basel cafe attack has nothing to do with terror - Swiss police
Date: 2017-03-10 09:14:23 GMT - Switzerland - International - SN:5 - ID:6667453
A Swiss police source said the attack on a cafe in the Swiss city of Basel is a local incident. It has nothing to do with terrorism, The Sun reported. Two gunmen opened fire inside a cafe in the Swiss city of Basel on Thursday, killing two ....
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Court upholds impeachment of Park, removes her from office
Date: 2017-03-10 09:12:47 GMT - south korea - International - SN:4 - ID:6667433
The Constitutional Court unanimously upheld the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye on Friday, removing her from office after a 92-day leadership crisis and triggering a presidential election in the weeks to come, the Korean news agency Yonhap ....
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US to host meeting of anti-Daesh coalition in Washington
Date: 2017-03-10 09:05:52 GMT - USA - International - SN:3 - ID:6667393
A US State Department official says Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will host a meeting of nations in the U.S.-led global coalition to fight Daesh group in Washington later this month. Foreign ministers and senior officials from 68 nations and ....
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26 Houthis, pro-Saleh militants killed in army attack on Nahm
Date: 2017-03-10 09:02:36 GMT - Yemen - Arab world - SN:2 - ID:6667369
More than 26 militants of Houthis and supporters of ousted president Ali Abdullah Saleh were killed and scores injured in an attack by the Yemeni army and popular resistance on militia posts in Nahm, east of Sanaa. Spokesman for the Popular ....
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Egypt deplores Iraq's terrorist attack
Date: 2017-03-10 09:00:42 GMT - Egypt - Egypt - SN:1 - ID:6667361
Spokesman for Egypt's Foreign Ministry Ahmed Abu Zeid condemned in the strongest terms the terrorist attack that targeted on Wednesday the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit. Daesh terrorist group claimed responsibility for the terrorist bombing that ....