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Saudi Arabia’s first female actress to play a role alongside other men took center stage on Friday in “The Empror’s New Groove” public play in the kingdom. The actress played the role of the evil character Yzma. (Supplied) The actress, Najat Mouftah, expressed her feelings regarding this experience. Mouftah said: “I am happy to be […]

Judge at Ofer military court orders outsiders kept out of the proceedings for the benefit of Ahed Tamimi, who is being tried as a minor Seventeen-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi, right, arrives for the beginning of her trial in the Israeli military court at Ofer military prison in the West Bank village of Betunia, February 13, […]

In Summary The court Monday announced that Somalia should respond to Kenya’s claim that the current flow of the border should remain intact. Somalia sued Kenya in August 2014, saying the border between the two countries should extend diagonally into the sea. The area in contest is about 100,000 square kilometres, forming a triangle east […]

A boat carrying undocumented migrants capsized on Maritsa River that runs along the border between Turkey and Greece on Tuesday, with at least 10 migrants missing. AA Photo The incident was revealed after one of the migrants called on the soldiers patrolling the military zone, asking for help for his child to be rescued. The […]

Egyptian security forces killed 10 militants in an exchange of fire and arrested 400 suspects, including foreigners, as part of an ongoing anti-terrorism campaign focused on Sinai that was launched last week, the army said in a statement on Tuesday. Screenshot from latest series of hits by the Egyptian armed forces against terrorist hideouts in […]

Strained relations between Turkey and the US seem to have reached a critical point. Ankara is seeking clarity from the US, threatening to ‘break’ ties. Washington meanwhile continues to hide behind vague statements. Turkish forces wave a flag on Mount Barsaya, northeast of Afrin, Syria, on January 28, 2018. © Khalil Ashawi / Reuters US […]

North Korea’s Kim Jong Un said it is important to boost the “warm climate of reconciliation” after meeting with the delegation that returned to the North after visiting the South for the Winter Olympics, the North’s state media said on Tuesday. © KCNA via KNS / AFP | This photo taken on February 10, 2018 […]

Damascus/Daraa, SANA – Material damage was caused on Monday due to shelling attacks by armed groups on Damascus and its Countryside in a new violation of the de-escalation zone in Eastern Ghouta. Speaking to SANA, a source at Damascus Police Command said that the armed groups fired a rocket shell on the Clinics Complex in […]

An Iraqi interior ministry official said the Islamic State group’s head Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is alive and being treated at a field hospital in Syria after being wounded in an air strike. © AFP(archive) “We have irrefutable information and documents from sources within the terrorist organisation that al-Baghdadi is still alive and hiding” in Syria‘s northeastern Jazira region, […]