A leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah Movement said fugitive former president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi will have no place in “the political future” of the Arabian Peninsula country. Faisal Abu Talib held talks with the deputy UN envoy to Yemen, Maeen Sharim, about issues surrounding a ceasefire agreement between Yemeni warring sides recently reached in […]

Jordan hit out at Israel’s move to open a new international airport along their shared border close to the Red Sea, saying it would threaten the kingdom’s airspace. “Jordan rejects the establishment of the Israeli airport in its current location,” head of Jordan’s Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission Haitham Misto said, according to state media, AFP […]

Minority Muslims in the southern Philippines cast votes on Monday in a long-awaited referendum on autonomy, the culmination of a peace process to end decades of separatist conflict in a region plagued by poverty, banditry and extremism. Some 2.8 million people in the volatile Mindanao region are being asked if they back a plan by […]

Two tragic bus accidents occurred this weekend in Bolivian cities of Oruro, and Tarija that left at least 35 people dead and 63 others injured. The firs accident happened Saturday in which two buses collided into each other on the road to Challapata, killing at least 22 people and injuring 37 others. A police report […]

Iraqi premier Adel Abdel-Mahdi visited Basra Sunday, his first trip as prime minister to the southern province where lagging services spawned a water crisis and protests last summer. Abdel-Mahdi’s office said he visited several infrastructure and service projects in the oil-rich province, including water provision services. “He called for redoubled efforts so these projects can […]

Ten UN peacekeepers from Chad were killed and at least 25 were wounded while repelling an attack by armed assailants near a village in northern Mali on Sunday, the West African nation’s UN mission and the United Nations said. The identity of the attackers was not immediately clear. UN peacekeeping and French forces are stationed […]

An economic summit held Sunday in Beirut urged international donors and Arab funds to “alleviate the plight of refugees and displaced people through funding the implementation of developmental projects in Arab countries hosting them.” “This would support national development plans and contribute to limiting the economic and social repercussions resulting from this temporary hosting,” the […]

Thousands of Central American migrants, many of them from Honduras, are taking Mexico up on its offer of temporary asylum and work visas. Mexican immigration officials said Sunday that 3,691 people associated with various migrant caravans have registered for temporary status in the country, and the number is expected to grow as more people arrive […]

The Baltic Fleet’s corvettes escorted the US Gravely and Porters destroyers, which have entered the Baltic Sea, the Russian National Defense Management Center told reporters on Monday. “The Baltic Fleet’s forces escorted the US Navy’s guided missile destroyers gravely and Porter, which have entered the southern part of the Baltic Sea’s waters,” the center said, […]

Representative of the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas in Tehran denounced the Zionist regime’s propaganda campaign to disarm Palestinian resistance groups, stressing that the use of arms is an approach to safeguarding the rights of Palestine. Addressing a conference of “Gaza, Symbol of Resistance”, held in Tehran on Sunday, Khaled Qadoumi lambasted Israel’s deceitful measures, […]