TEHRAN, Iran - Thirty-two people died when a massive blaze ripped through a drug rehab centre in northern Iran early on Friday, local media reported. "Thirty-two people have been killed in the fire" which erupted at a drug rehabilitation centre in Langarud, a city in the northern Gilan...
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories - Agence France-Presse's bureau in the Gaza Strip, which has been relentlessly bombed by Israel, was significantly damaged by a strike on the building, according to an AFP staff member who visited Friday. AFP is the only one of the world's three major...
AMMAN, Jordan - Some 5,000 Jordanians protested Friday in the capital Amman, calling on King Abdullah II to press for a ceasefire in fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, AFP correspondents said. Speaking at the demonstration, lawmaker Yanal Fraihat said protesters wanted the king "to...
PARIS, France - France said Friday it had been informed by Israel that its forces had carried out a strike on the French Institute in Gaza, adding it was demanding an explanation. "We were informed by the Israeli authorities that the French Institute in Gaza had been targeted by an Israeli...
PARIS, France - The families of nine Israeli victims of last month's Hamas attacks have lodged a complaint at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for suspected war crimes, their lawyer said Friday. The families also want Hamas prosecuted for genocide, and the ICC to issue an international...
RAFAH, Palestinian Territories - Israeli ground troops fighting a war to destroy Hamas had surrounded Gaza City on Friday as top US diplomat Antony Blinken arrived in Israel and declared that the country has right and a duty to defend itself. Israel, meanwhile, began expelling thousands of...
'Filipino Phenom' Suganob battles Venezuelan fighter By CALVIN CORDOVA Four months after losing a world title fight, Regie “The Filipino Phenom” Suganob will be tested once again as he will take on hard-hitting Venezuelan fighter Ronald Chacon in the main event of “Kumong Bol-anon XII...
STOCKHOLM,Sweden -- Sweden's coast guard said Thursday the passenger ferry that ran aground last month causing a large oil spill had been safely towed to port without further leaks. The Marco Polo ferry, operated by TT-Line, ran aground south of the southern city of Karlshamn on October 22, with...
BERLIN, Germany -- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Thursday that Kyiv was confident about its quest to open EU membership talks this year, touting reforms it made even in the face of the Russian invasion. Speaking ahead of a conference on Europe in Berlin, Kuleba told reporters...
ATHENS, Greece -- Greek police said Thursday 13 people were arrested after far-right and far-left groups clashed in Athens on the anniversary of the fatal shootings of two neo-Nazis a decade ago. Police had banned gatherings related to the deaths of the two members of the Golden Dawn party and on...
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories -- Three Palestinians were killed Thursday by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, and an Israeli was killed in a Palestinian shooting attack, according to first responders. Violence has surged across the West Bank for...
KYIV, Ukraine -- Ukraine said Thursday that Russian assaults on the nearly encircled eastern town of Avdiivka had eased as the Kremlin rejected Kyiv's assessment that the 20-month conflict was deadlocked. Avdiivka, an industrial hub at the centre of fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces...
