Spain struggles with spike in migrant arrivals
August 01, 2018 | 10:24
Since being plucked from a packed inflatable boat by Spanish rescuers in the Mediterranean on Friday (Jul 27), Glenn Alban has slept outdoors on a bed of flattened cardboard boxes in the port of Algeciras in southern Spain.
Kabul suicide attack death toll rises to 23: Health official
July 24, 2018 | 09:05
The death toll from a suicide attack near Kabul international airport has risen to 23, the health ministry said Monday, with an AFP driver among the dead.
Air strikes kill 15 civilians in southern Syria: Monitor
July 18, 2018 | 08:53
Air strikes on Tuesday (Jul 17) killed more than a dozen civilians in parts of Syria's south near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, a war monitor said.
Tourists charged with stealing bricks from Auschwitz memorial
July 16, 2018 | 12:02
Two Hungarian tourists have admitted to trying to steal bricks from the ruins of a crematorium at the site of the former Nazi German death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, according to police.
One killed in Paris knife attack by man shouting 'Allahu akbar'
May 13, 2018 | 12:59
An assailant shouting "Allahu akbar" killed a passer-by in a knife attack that also wounded four others in the heart of Paris late on Saturday before he was shot dead by police, French authorities said.
Syrian air defence shoots down missiles over Homs
April 17, 2018 | 08:00
Syrian air defence shot down missiles over the western city of Homs, the state news agency said on Tuesday (Apr 17), with the strikes reportedly targeting regime air bases.
Chemical inspectors launch probe in Syria after Western strikes
April 16, 2018 | 09:54
A team of chemical experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, based in The Hague, arrived in Damascus hours after the strikes.
Tear gas, petrol bombs as French police clear 'eco-camp'
April 11, 2018 | 10:00
French police battled Tuesday (Apr 10) to evict anti-airport protesters and the creators of an alternative anti-capitalist settlement in western France during a second day of clashes.
Japan FM to voice North Korea concerns in rare Seoul visit
April 11, 2018 | 09:46
Japan's foreign minister was in South Korea for a rare visit Wednesday (Apr 11), armed with a list of issues Tokyo wants to push onto the agenda of a looming summit between North and South Korea.
Plane carrying Russian diplomats expelled from US lands in Moscow
April 01, 2018 | 18:17
The first plane carrying Russian diplomats expelled from the United States over the poisoning of a former spy arrived at Moscow's Vnukovo airport on Sunday.
Kurdish protesters clash with police at German airport, disrupt UK stations
March 12, 2018 | 13:08
Pro-Kurdish demonstrators staged protests against Turkey's military offensive in northern Syria on Sunday (Mar 11), scuffling with Turks and German police at Duesseldorf airport, while in Britain they temporarily closed two train stations, authorities said.
'105 girls missing' in NE Nigeria after Boko Haram school attack
February 24, 2018 | 14:15
KANO: More than 100 girls are reported missing after a Boko Haram school attack in northeast Nigeria this week that President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday called a "national disaster".
Russia seeks UN Security Council meeting on Eastern Ghouta
February 22, 2018 | 09:47
Russia called for a UN Security Council meeting to be held on Thursday on the violence engulfing Eastern Ghouta after Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described life for civilians in the rebel-held Syrian enclave as "hell on earth."
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