NORTH AFRICA
Some 100 refugees missing as boat sinks off Libya
The boat sinking occurred off Tripoli’s western suburb of Gargaresh on Thursday.
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ARGENTINA
Teachers step up protests in Argentina
Argentinian teachers set up a mobile school in protest against the policies of President Mauricio Macri.
FOREIGN POLICY
WikiLeaks hostile intelligence service: CIA
CIA Director Mike Pompeo has called whistleblowing website WikiLeaks a “non-state hostile intelligence service."
PALESTINE
Israel orders demolition of mosque in West Bank
Israel orders a mosque in the occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds to be demolished.
MILITARY
US military ready to attack North Korea: Report
The US is prepared to launch a preemptive strike against North Korea if the country reaches for a nuclear trigger, a report says.
YEMEN
Russian medical aid arrives in Yemen: Video
A Russian delivery of medical aid arrives in Yemen’s capital city of Sana’a.
SYRIA
Russia: US agreed not to repeat Syria strike
The Russian foreign minister says the US has told Moscow that Washington will not repeat attack against Syria.
FOREIGN POLICY
Trump ‘very proud of firing mother of all bombs’
Trump lauds America’s “incredible military” for firing the "mother of all bombs" at a target in Afghanistan.
POLITICS
US missile strike on Syria 'unacceptable': Iran
Iranian FM Zarif discussed the US strike and other Syria developments in phone talks with his Kazakh, Venezuelan, Brazilian and Bolivian counterparts on Thursday.
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UN votes to end Haiti mission in mid-October
The UNSC unanimously voted to end a peacekeeping mission in Haiti in October after over 20 years.
SUDAN
South Sudan violence amounts to 'genocide'
Britain's International Development Minister Priti Patel says government troops in South Sudan have been "targeting certain groups of people" in the second largest city of Wau this week.
MILITARY
US drops ‘mother of all bombs’ in Afghanistan
The US has dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in the country’s arsenal on an area of eastern Afghanistan.
SYRIA
‘West looking for excuses to defer Syria CW probe’
Lavrov says the West is looking for 'excuses' not to investigate the alleged chemical attack in the northwestern Syrian town of Khan Shaykhun.
SYRIA
UK experts in Turkey to probe Syria attack: Report
The British delegation is reportedly tasked with collecting bio-metric samples and interviewing survivors of the April 4 purported chemical attack on the town of Khan Shaykhun.
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Rohingya woman shot dead at Bangladesh border
The deadly incident took place along a river dividing Bangladesh from Myanmar's westernmost state of Rakhine.
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Fire at Senegal religious ceremony kills 22
Twenty-two people are killed as fire tears through a Muslim religious retreat southeast of Senegal.
YEMEN
Saudi blockade paralyzing Yemen: UN expert
Idriss Jazairy, UN special rapporteur on the negative impacts of unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights, says the situation of the Yemeni people is "desperate.”
PALESTINE
Israeli forces attack Palestinian university students
At least six Palestinian students are shot and injured during clashes with Israeli forces near the al-Quds University campus in the West Bank.
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