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  • Yemeni president to snub UN-sponsored talks in Geneva

    Yemeni government spokesman Rageh Badi has said Yemeni President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi will not attend upcoming peace talks in Geneva. Badi said on Saturday that Hadi would not attend due to the security situation and because Houthi rebels have not satisfied a government pre-condition to pull out of towns and cities they occupy - including the capital,.. More

  • ISIL captures strategic Syrian city of Palmyra

    Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) have taken full control of Syria's ancient city of Palmyra, according to activists and a monitoring group. The Syrian army has collapsed and ISIL has taken over the city, also known as Tadmur, the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported. The monitor reported earlier on Wednesday.. More

  • Speaker of German parliament rescinds Sisi invitation

    Norbert Lammert, the speaker of the German parliament, has announced that he is cancelling a planned meeting with Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, during the Egyptian president's scheduled visit to Berlin next month, due to human rights violations in Egypt. Lammert's office said in a written statement on Tuesday that the speaker had told the Egyptian embassy.. More

  • Turkey's pro-Kurdish party rocked by twin bomb attacks

    Twin bomb attacks have hit the regional headquarters of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party in two cities, injuring more than half a dozen people and escalating tensions ahead of June 7 legislative elections. Six people were injured, three of them seriously, in the blast caused by a suspect parcel at the office of the People's Democratic Party (HDP) in.. More

  • Clashes as Israelis mark East Jerusalem occupation day

    Israeli hardliners and police have clashed with Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem as crowds of ultra-nationalists marched across the city to mark the 48 years since its occupation by Israel. At least four Palestinians were arrested during the flare-up on Sunday, as Israeli police used batons and horseback units to disperse counter-demonstrators. Onl.. More

  • Fresh bombing in Yemen as humanitarian ceasefire ends

    Arab coalition nations have resumed air strikes against Houthi fighters in Yemen as a UN envoy called for an extension of a five-day humanitarian ceasefire that expired late Sunday. The coalition targeted Houthi rebel positions in al-Sawlaban and al-Arish in Aden province, Saudi military officials said early on Monday. Al-Masirah TV, a Houthi-backed.. More

  • Erdogan asks why 'West remains silent' on Morsi verdict

    Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has termed an Egyptian court’s death penalty on ousted elected President Mohamed Morsi as a capital punishment against democracy. Speaking in Istanbul at an international youth event Saturday, Erdogan criticized the death penalty against Morsi. "If Morsi is given death sentence today, this is indeed.. More

  • Israeli troops clash with Palestinians for second day

    Clashes between Israeli troops and demonstrators in the West Bank have wounded five people, including two photographers, as protests marking the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes in 1948 entered their second day. The violence on Saturday broke out near an army post just south of the city of Nablus, where 200 Palestinians had gathered to mark.. More

  • Yemen humanitarian pause comes into effect

    A five-day humanitarian ceasefire has begun in Yemen, just hours after Arab coalition fighter jets struck against Houthi fighters and their allies. It was not immediately clear if the two sides were honoring the truce, which began at 11pm local time [20:00GMT] on Tuesday. The pause in the fighting, which has killed hundreds of civilians, will test.. More

  • Egypt justice minister quits over social class remarks

    Egypt's justice minister has resigned after raising a public uproar by saying in a TV interview that the children of rubbish collectors workers are too lowly to become judges. The comments on Sunday by Mahfouz Saber brought a heavy backlash on social media from Egyptians denouncing elitism and what some saw as the arrogance of Egypt's judiciary, already.. More

  • Saudi Arabia assembles 'massive force' on Yemen border

    Saudi Arabia has assembled a "massive" additional force on its border with Yemen after trading heavy artillery and rocket fire with Yemen's Houthi fighters, prior to a proposed truce taking effect. Al Jazeera's Mohamed Vall, reporting from Riyadh, said Saudi Arabia's defense ministry announced on Monday that a "massive" force had.. More

  • Air strikes target ex-Yemen president Saleh's residence

    Warplanes from the coalition led by Saudi Arabia has bombed the residence of Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital, Sanaa, but Yemen's former president is believed to be safe, witnesses have said. Three air strikes hit Saleh's residence early on Sunday morning, but the president and his family are "well", Yemeni news agency Khabar said, according.. More

  • Air raids target Houthis after attacks on Saudi town

    Warplanes have carried out more than 30 strikes on the northwestern Yemeni provinces of Saada and Hajja near the border with Saudi Arabia, local officials and residents said. The air raids occurred after Yemeni rebels fired rockets and mortars into Saudi Arabia, killing at least two civilians. Local sources also said there was heavy artillery shelling.. More

  • Italy rescues 600 migrants from Mediterranean

    Italy has rescued about 600 migrants in six operations, one in cooperation with Maltese authorities, in the past 24 hours, the country's coastguard told Al Jazeera. The rescued people included 100 Somali migrants who were stranded on a plastic boat in the Mediterranean on Tuesday, an official involved in the rescue said. A coastguard source, contacted.. More

  • Rescued migrants arrive in Italy port

    Nearly 5,800 migrants rescued from boats off the coast of Libya over the past 48 hours have arrived on the Italian port of Pozzallo, according to coastguard officials. The development comes as part of European coastguard agencies' biggest rescue operation this year. Al Jazeera's Stephanie Dekker, reporting on Monday from Pozzallo, on the island of.. More

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