Om Fahad found dead in Iraq after being accused of kidnapping Dalia Naeem ALBAWABA - Surveillance footage from one of Baghdad's streets shows a horrifying scene for Om Fahad: a gunman rides up on a motorbike. Jumps off, hides behind a fence, and then approaches a ... 04/26/2024 - 11:20 pm | View Link
Turkey’s Erdogan meets Iraq PM for talks on water, security and trade Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has met Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani in Baghdad for talks on security, economic and energy cooperation. In a joint news conference on Monday ... 04/21/2024 - 1:00 pm | View Link
Iraq investigates blast at military base housing Iran-backed groups Iraq's Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), seen taking part in a military parade in Diyala province in 2022, say an explosion at a command post south of Baghdad killed one of its members and ... 04/20/2024 - 2:43 am | View Link
No reports of drones or missiles launched from Iraq during Iran's attack on Israel, PM says BAGHDAD, April 16 (Reuters ... Middle Eastcategory Gaza baby rescued from dead mother's womb dies 1:50 PM UTC · Updated ago Middle Eastcategory UN official says it could take 14 years to ... 04/16/2024 - 8:52 am | View Link
Biden cheat sheet for Iraq PM meeting caught on camera — including instructions to ‘pause’ President Biden was caught once again wielding a crib sheet bearing scripted remarks to the press during an Oval Office sitdown with Iraq’s prime minister Monday. Biden, 81, turned to the script ... 04/16/2024 - 3:15 am | View Link
PARIS — A massive manhunt was underway in France on Wednesday for armed assailants who ambushed a prison convoy, killing two prison officers, seriously injuring three others and springing the inmate they were escorting. The prime minister vowed the gang would be caught, saying, “They will pay.”
“We are tracking you, we will find you and we will punish you,” Prime Minister Gabriel Attal said in parliament, to applause from lawmakers.
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — Singapore’s deputy leader Lawrence Wong was sworn in Wednesday as the nation’s fourth prime minister in a carefully planned political succession designed to ensure continuity and stability in the Asian financial hub.
A U. S.-trained economist, Wong, 51, succeeds Lee Hsien Loong, 72, who stepped down after two decades at the helm.
As the summer climbing season approaches, local authorities in Japan have announced a new entry fee and daily visitor cap for their popular trail up Mount Fuji in an attempt to reduce congestion around the iconic mountain and curb the damaging effects of overtourism.
The paid reservation system, officially unveiled on Monday, kicks in for those wishing to ascend Mount Fuji between July 1 and September 10, and slots can be booked online starting May 20.
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A Yamanashi prefecture government official told CNN in 2023 that “overtourism—and all the subsequent consequences like rubbish, rising CO2 emissions and reckless hikers—is the biggest problem facing Mount Fuji.”
A booking, which costs 2,000 Yen (or about $13), covers entrance to the Yoshida Trail, which is used by about 60% of visitors and is one of four entrances to the mountain.
MANILA, Philippines — A flotilla of about 100 mostly small fishing boats led by Filipino activists sailed Wednesday to a disputed shoal in the South China Sea, where Beijing’s coast guard and suspected militia ships have used powerful water cannons to ward off what they regard as intruders.
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The Philippine coast guard and navy deployed one patrol ship each to keep watch from a distance on the activists and fishermen, who set off on wooden boats with bamboo outriggers to assert Manila’s sovereignty over the Scarborough Shoal.
mdash; The Biden administration has told key lawmakers it is sending a new package of more than $1 billion in arms and ammunition to Israel, two congressional aides said Tuesday.
It’s the first arms shipment to Israel to be announced by the administration since it put another arms transfer — consisting of 3,500 bombs — on hold earlier in the month.
(WASHINGTON) — Boeing has violated a settlement that allowed the company to avoid criminal prosecution after two deadly crashes involving its 737 Max aircraft, the Justice Department told a federal judge on Tuesday.
It is now up to the Justice Department to decide whether to file charges against the aircraft maker amid increasing scrutiny over the safety of its planes.