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Police in Britain arrested a 38-year-old man at Luton Airport on ‘terrorism’ charges on Wednesday, the Metropolitan Police said in a statement. The BBC reported that the man arrested was Aine Davis, who has been accused of being part of an Islamic Stat…

The UN Security Council will hold an emergency meeting Thursday to address the crisis at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear complex, the power plant that Kyiv and Moscow accuse each other of having bombed, diplomatic sources said. A source in the Security …

Iraqi actress Enas Taleb said she will sue The Economist over the use of her photograph in an article titled ‘Why women are fatter than men in the Arab world.’ “I have decided to take legal action against The Economist for their cover story. I am deman…

Iraq’s powerful Shia Muslim leader Muqtada Al-Sadr on Wednesday called on the judiciary to dissolve parliament by the end of next week, urging his supporters to keep up a sit-in outside the Baghdad legislature. Iraq, which has been without a new govern…

The head of Lebanon’s powerful armed movement Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, warned on Tuesday against any Israeli attempts to expand their targeting of Palestinians to Lebanon. “Any attack on any human being will not go unpunished or unanswered,” Nasrall…

Turkey is reportedly seeking billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia in an effort to bolster its foreign currency reserves amid the Turkish lira’s protracted inflationary crisis. A Turkish treasury source said talks were ongoing to secure a $20 billion d…

More than 31,000 people from Ukraine and Russia have emigrated to Israel since Russian forces invaded Ukraine in February, a massive increase from a similar pre-war period, official data showed on Wednesday. Between 24 February and 31 July, Israel rece…

At least five people, including two policemen, were killed in an attack on a prison in which about 750 inmates escaped in Congo’s eastern Butembo town, local officials said on Wednesday. Rebels of the Islamist Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) group attac…

An Islamic State leader in northern Syria blew himself up on Tuesday, killing and wounding others in the process. The Horan Free League – a group of activists and journalists in southern Syria – said that the IS leader, “Abu Salem Al-Iraqi”, detonated …

A court in the Tunisian capital Tunis halted Wednesday the implementation of Tunisian President Kais Saied’s decision to sack judges in June. Imad Al-Ghabri, the Administrative Court’s spokesman, told local radio on Wednesday that the court had reviewe…