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The UN human rights office (OHCHR) said on Tuesday that more than 5,000 civilians had been killed in Ukraine since Russia invaded on Feb. 24, adding that the real toll was likely much higher. OHCHR, which has dozens of human rights monitors in the coun…

A Saudi opposition group, the National Assembly Party (NAAS), has called for an independent investigation into the murder of its founder, Manea al-Yami, who was killed in his home in Beirut on Sunday. The Lebanese authorities have been mostly silent ab…

The leader of the Islamic State militant group in Syria was killed Tuesday in a US drone strike, the Pentagon said. Maher al-Agal was killed while riding a motorcycle near Jindayris in Syria, and one of his top aides was seriously injured, Pentagon Cen…

Fresh waves of Covid infections show the pandemic is “nowhere near over”, the World Health Organization’s chief warned Tuesday, voicing concern the virus is “running freely”. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was worried that case numbers were continu…

Turkey said it will host Russian and Ukrainian delegations with UN diplomats on Wednesday to discuss the resumption of stalled grain deliveries across the Black Sea. The four-way meeting with Turkish officials comes as food prices soar around the world…

The UN Security Council adopted a resolution Tuesday extending a system for cross-border aid to Syria by six months, the duration demanded by Russia while other members had sought a full year. The measure received votes in support from 12 of the 15 mem…

In early 1973, a team of workers who were renovating the Grand Mosque of Sanaa in Yemen came upon a hidden trove of manuscripts between the ceiling and the roof. Reduced to fragments, the books had become unusable and were abandoned, probably after the…

A former Egyptian soldier named Abdel-Fattah Abdel-Baqi filed a lawsuit before an administrative court against Israel over “war crimes it committed against Egyptian prisoners of war during the 1967 war,” according to a high-profile journalist and histo…

Palestinian officials have expressed their resentment over a request from Washington that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas express support for normalisation between Israel and Arab states, Haaretz reported Monday. US officials say that a statement f…

Olympic great Mo Farah won praise from across Britain’s political spectrum Tuesday after the shock revelation that he was illegally trafficked as a child to the country and forced to work in domestic servitude. The 39-year-old distance runner, one of B…