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  • Millions flee inland as Southeast U.S. braces for Hurricane Matthew

    The fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade slammed into the Bahamas early on Thursday, intensifying as it barreled towards the southeast U.S. coast where a mass exodus was under way with millions heeding warnings to flee inland. Roadways in Florida, Georgia and North and South Carolina were packed and gas stations and food stores ran out of supplies.. More

  • Iraq-Turkey tensions soar ahead of Mosul operation

    Iraq and Turkey on Wednesday summoned their respective ambassadors in a bitter war of words between the two neighbors ahead of a planned operation to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from fighters. The dispute centers around Turkish troops deployed near Mosul, a presence that Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has strongly opposed and said he fears.. More

  • Israel intercepts boat seeking to break Gaza blockade

    Israel's navy intercepted an activist boat seeking to break the country's decade-long blockade of the Gaza Strip, saying it was boarded without incident and was being directed to shore. The navy said in a statement on Wednesday its forces had "redirected" the sailboat in order to prevent a "breach of the lawful maritime blockade".. More

  • More than 4,600 people rescued off Libya in one day

    More than 4,650 people were saved on Tuesday and 28 bodies recovered in more than 30 rescue missions off the Libyan coast, Italy's coast guard said. This brings the total number of rescued in the last 48 hours to more than 10,000, and the death toll to 50 as people smugglers take advantage of relatively calm weather to push boats to sea. The coast.. More

  • UN rights chief warns Russia over Syria raids

    United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad al Hussein warned Russia on Tuesday over the use of incendiary weapons in Syria's besieged opposition enclave of eastern Aleppo, and said crimes by one side did not justify illegal acts by the other. Hundreds of civilians have been killed or injured in air strikes since the collapse of the.. More

  • Top Muslim Brotherhood leader killed in Egypt

    Egypt's interior ministry said police killed a senior Muslim Brotherhood leader and another member of the group in a shootout in the capital Cairo - a version of events contested by the group. A ministry statement carried by the state MENA news agency on Tuesday said Mohamed Kamal, 61, was killed in an exchange of gunfire along with Yasser Shahata.. More

  • US suspends ceasefire talks with Russia

    The United States has suspended talks with Russia over the war in Syria and accused Moscow of not living up to its commitments under a ceasefire agreement. Moscow and Washington had brokered a previous ceasefire but it collapsed last month after several days of relative calm. After weeks of intense air raids on Aleppo carried out by the Syrian regime.. More

  • Taliban fighters enter northern Afghan city of Kunduz

    Taliban fighters entered the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Monday, almost exactly a year after they briefly seized it in their biggest success of the 15-year war, while heavy fighting in the south underscored the country's deteriorating security. Sheer Ali Kamawal, commander of the 808 Tandar police zone in Kunduz, said the attack began at around.. More

  • Erdogan calls on Muslim countries to unite

    President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday urged Islamic nations to unite and show solidarity with each other. In an interview with the Saudi Arabia-based television channel, Rotana, Erdogan said despicable developments are being formed against the Islamic world. “Turkey and Saudi Arabia are being targeted. We see that all pitfalls and plans are.. More

  • Colombians reject peace deal with FARC

    Colombians on Sunday rejected a peace deal between the government and the FARC to end a 52-year conflict. “I am the first to accept this result,” President Juan Manuel Santos said during a televised address from the Presidential Palace. “I will not give up and will continue to strive for peace until the last minute of my mandate,”.. More

  • Muslims in Hungary wary of EU refugee quotas referendum

    The right-wing government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban has fiercely opposed the EU plan, which seeks to share 160,000 asylum seekers around the 28-member bloc via mandatory quotas. Under the scheme, Hungary would receive less than 1,300 people, but it has not accepted a single person allocated so far. In the run-up to the vote, opinion polls showed.. More

  • Aleppo hospital bombed again

    At least two barrel bombs have hit the largest hospital in the opposition-held eastern side of Syria's Aleppo city, according to the medical organization that supports it. The facility, known as M10, had already been hit by heavy bombardment on Wednesday along with the second-largest hospital in the area in what Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary-general,.. More

  • US blames Russia for incendiary attacks on Aleppo

    The US has threatened to suspend cooperation with Russia over Syria, hours after the bombardment of two hospitals in opposition-held areas of Aleppo, as Syrian regime forces backed by Moscow continued their offensive to retake the eastern part of the city from opposition fighters. US Secretary of State John Kerry warned his Russian counterpart Sergey.. More

  • Muslim scholars call ‘Friday of anger’ for Aleppo

    The International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has called for a global “day of anger” on Friday in support of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, which has been under intense attacks by regime and Russian forces. More than 400 people have been killed and hundreds injured by Syrian regime and Russian airstrikes on Aleppo since Sept... More

  • Dresden mosque bombed in 'xenophobic' attack

    Bomb attacks hit a mosque and a convention center in the eastern German city of Dresden, police said on Tuesday, adding that the motive appeared to be xenophobia and nationalism. No one was injured in the explosions late on Monday in a city that has become a hotspot for far-right protests and hate crimes following a major influx of migrants and refugees.. More