Crew of 32 missing after tanker collides with freighter roughly 300km off the coast of Shanghai. An Iranian oil tanker collided with a bulk freighter and caught fire off China’s eastern coast, leaving its entire crew of 32 missing, most of them Iranians, authorities said. The collision between the Sanchi and the Chinese freighter occurred […]

Several resident doctors injured after police violently disperse protest sit-in at hospital in the capital Algiers. Human rights groups have condemned the Algerian police for violently dispersing a sit-in organised by resident doctors in Algiers, who have been protesting for weeks over poor working conditions. Images posted on social media show Algerian medical residents, who […]

The bus mainly carried families on their way to spend a holiday at the Uludag ski resort. A bus crash in central Turkey has left 11 people dead and at least 44 others injured, according to authorities. The accident on Saturday happened when the vehicle hit several trees on the side of the road in […]

The UN says it is concerned about the number of arrests during anti-government demonstrations in Tunisia. More than 770 people have been arrested in Tunisia during nearly a week of protests against a government plan to raise taxes and prices of basic goods, according to the UN. Rupert Colville, a spokesman for the UN human […]

Iran’s state broadcaster, Irib, has sacked the head of a regional TV channel after it broadcast a Jackie Chan film without removing a sex scene. A video posted online apparently by a viewer on Kish Island showed the Hong Kong martial arts star sleeping with a woman in the film Shinjuku Incident. Iranian media said […]

Call for restraint comes ahead of renewed protests, with demonstrators expected to march to Bashir’s palace in Khartoum. Human Rights Watch has urged Sudan’s government to show restraint and not use lethal force against protesters during the weeks-long demonstrations against President Omar al-Bashir. The New York-based group, citing estimates from independent groups, said on Monday […]

Prosecution asks for terrorism probe of suspects linked to the beheading of two female tourists in Atlas Mountains. Fifteen people suspected of links to the murder of two Scandinavian women in the Atlas Mountains have appeared before a judge in Morocco. The attorney general’s office in Rabat said in a statement on Sunday that the […]

Hayemin Hehadash, or ‘New Right’, will be a partnership between right-wing secular and religious politicians. Two Israeli ministers have announced their split from the religious-nationalist Jewish Home party and have set up a new right-wing faction that they say will be a partnership between secular and religious politicians. Naftali Bennett, the minister of education, and […]

MANBIJ, Syria (AFP) – Syrian forces have deployed around the city of Manbij at the request of the Kurds, but Abu Azeez Jaber still fears a US military withdrawal will see Turkish troops enter. “People are terrified first of the Americans withdrawing, and second of the Turks entering,” the 48-year-old cook said. Since 2016, the […]

CAIRO — Egyptian security forces killed at least 40 people suspected of being militants in North Sinai and Giza, officials said on Saturday, a day after an explosion hit a tour bus, leaving four people dead and 10 others wounded. The Ministry of Interior did not explicitly link the killing of the suspected militants to […]