WikiLeaks founder Assange starts final UK legal battle to avoid extradition to US on spy charges LONDON: Julian Assange’s lawyers will begin their final UK legal challenge on Tuesday to stop the WikiLeaks founder from being sent to the United States to face spying charges. The 52-year-old has been fighting extradition for more than a … Read more
MANILA: The hospitality of Filipinos is well recognized across the Middle East, which millions of them have over decades called home, but their rich cuisine remains largely unknown. A celebrity chef is now trying to change it. Some 700,000 Filipinos are employed in the UAE, more than half of them in Dubai. Their large presence … Read more
CAIRO: Egypt is constructing a walled camp in the Sinai Peninsula to receive displaced Palestinian civilians from the Gaza Strip, a US media report and an Egyptian human rights monitor said on Friday.But Israel, which is waging a four-month-old war against Hamas militants in the territory, said it had no plans to move civilians there, … Read more
LONDON: Footage of Ukrainian special forces operating in Sudan has surfaced following months of speculation that Kyiv had sent troops to the country to fight Russia’s Wagner military group, The Guardian reported on Tuesday. The Russian private military company is fighting in Sudan to support the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces in its battle against the … Read more
RAFAH, Palestinian Territories: The last time six-year-old Hind Rajab was heard from, she was surrounded by dead relatives and trapped in the family’s car after it came under fire in war-ravaged Gaza City.“She was scared, freaking out, and was wounded in her back, her hand and her foot,” said her grandfather, Baha Hamada, one of … Read more
RIYADH: Workers for Saudi aid agency KSrelief on Sunday distributed 1,646 food parcels to displaced families in the Sudanese state of Kassala. More than 9,450 people are estimated to have benefitted from the handouts, the Saudi Press Agency reported. The initiative was part of the center’s food security support project in Sudan alongside other humanitarian … Read more
WASHINGTON DC: The US military launched an air assault on dozens of sites in Iraq and Syria used by Iranian-backed militias and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Quds force Friday, in the opening salvo of retaliation for the drone strike that killed three US troops in Jordan last weekend, officials told The Associated Press.President Joe Biden … Read more
WASHINGTON: The United States on Wednesday implored Sudan’s authorities to let aid into the country, denouncing holdups as the war between rival generals leaves millions in need of help. Samantha Power, administrator of the US Agency for International Development, said that funding for Sudan’s crisis “remains shockingly low,” with around 25 million people, or more … Read more
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania: Ten Sudanese civilians were killed on Jan. 20 when the bus they were traveling in struck a land mine on a road in Al-Jazirah state, south of Sudan’s capital Khartoum, where fighting between rival military factions has been ongoing since April last year. The tragedy’s aftermath was marked by a deafening silence from … Read more
DUBAI: Israel’s brutal war in Gaza is threatening to end the existence of Palestinian Christians in both the enclave and the occupied West Bank, Rev. Munther Isaac of the Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church in Bethlehem has said. Appearing on “Frankly Speaking,” the Arab News weekly show, the Palestinian pastor did not mince words while speaking on … Read more