Niger seizes $37m in cannabis destined for Libya
Niger police have seized a record 17 tonnes of cannabis resin worth around $37 million in a shipment originating in Lebanon and bound for Libya, Reuters reported the spokesman for the...
March 5, 2021
Niger police have seized a record 17 tonnes of cannabis resin worth around $37 million in a shipment originating in Lebanon and bound for Libya, Reuters reported the spokesman for the...
March 5, 2021
South Africa’s Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng was yesterday ordered to apologise after being found guilty of violating the country’s judicial code of conduct for pro-Israel comments he made in...
March 5, 2021
The Biden administration’s refusal to punish Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman over the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has put the lives of critics in grave danger, exiled dissidents...
March 5, 2021
Russian forces have started to build a permanent military base in the eastern suburban area of Homs, the independent Syrian news website Zaman Al-Wasl reported. The new base, which will be...
March 5, 2021
Israel plans to vaccinate Palestinians aged 16 and over once using surplus doses after it completes its campaign to inoculate its own citizens, reported the Jerusalem Post. Israel’s Health Ministry...
March 5, 2021
Saudi Arabia’s former ambassador to Egypt has claimed that the United States pressured the Egyptian military to lie about the results of the elections in 2012, after Mohamed Morsi allegedly lost...
March 5, 2021
Some 38 million children and adolescents require assistance in the Middle East and North Africa region, the United Nations children’s charity told AFP. The region accounts for half of UNICEF’s...
March 5, 2021
Lebanese Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri said that “unlike Hezbollah, which is always waiting for decisions to come from Iran”, he does not wait “for the approval of any external...
March 5, 2021
Thousands of Palestinian citizens of Israel will take to the streets of Umm Al-Fahm today in protest against “police violence and racist lawlessness”. After a spree of violence that...
March 5, 2021
US Vice President Kamala Harris, in a call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, reaffirmed Washington’s opposition to an International Criminal Court (ICC) probe of possible war crimes...