A Pakistani military cargo plane carrying relief goods for Afghanistan’s earthquake-affected people landed at the Khost airport on Saturday, officials said, as tents, food and medical supplies rolled into the mountainous region. Thousands were left hom…
Lebanon minister tells forces to ‘stop’ LGBTQ gatherings
Lebanon’s interior minister gave instructions to security forces on Friday to stop gatherings of the LGBTQ community, following pressure from religious institutions. Interior Minister Bassam Al-Mawlawi instructed Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces to “…
Britons condemned in Donetsk holding out for intervention
The lawyer defending one of two Britons sentenced to death in a Russian-backed breakaway territory of Ukraine said on Friday that they had not yet submitted an appeal because they seemed to be holding out for intervention from London. A court in the se…
Saudi releases young Shia prisoner who faced execution
Saudi authorities have released a member of the country’s Shia minority who was arrested at age 13 and had risked the death penalty, a human rights group said on Friday. “Murtaja Qureiris, detained since 2014 when he was only 13, has been released foll…
Damascus, Tripoli, Algiers world’s ‘least liveable’ cities
Damascus, Tripoli and Algiers are among the four least liveable cities in the world, according to The Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Liveability Index 2022. Syrian capital Damascus ranked rock bottom in the ranking of 173 cities worldwide, immedi…
Jordan student shot dead in latest femicide outrage
A Jordanian woman student was shot dead at a university in Amman on Thursday, the country’s public security directorate said, days after a similarmurder in Egypt caused outrage across the region. Iman Arsheed, a second-year nursing student at the Appli…
Iran arrests 5 people over ‘indecent’ skateboarding event
Iranian state media reported on Friday that authorities have detained five people accused of organising a skateboarding event where dozens of teenagers mixed freely and girls didn’t wear headscarves. A video of the “Go Skateboarding Day” held off a bou…
Tunisian president faces ‘serious’ threats to his life
Tunisia’s interior ministry said on Friday it had information about serious threats to the life of the president and that it had foiled what it called a separate terrorist attack, adding to security concerns as the country faces a political crisis. The…
Tehran dismisses Israeli accusation of Iran plot in Turkey
Iran said on Friday that Israeli Foreign MinisterYair Lapid’s accusation of an Iranian plot to harm Israelis in Istanbul was “ridiculous” and aimed at damaging Iranian-Turkish relations. At a news conference in Ankara on Thursday, Lapid thanked his hos…
Turkey wildfires: Qatar and Azerbaijan help fight blaze
Water-dropping aircraft from Azerbaijan and Qatar on Friday joined the fight against a wind-stoked wildfire that burned for a fourth day near a popular resort in southwestern Turkey. Turkey’s forestry minister, meanwhile, said the fire may be close to …