Riyadh. Salman invites Palestinian president to Muslim leaders-US summit. Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has reportedly invited Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to a sum... Read more
Damascus. US-backed SDF recaptures Tabqa near Raqqah from Daesh. US-backed militants, known as the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), have fully captured the city of Tabqa and a nearby dam from... Read more
Washington. US mulling expansion of laptop flight ban to Europe. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is mulling the expansion of a ban on laptops on flights originating from several... Read more
Tehran. Ayatollah Khamenei says Enemies seeking to disrupt Iran’s security. Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran’s enemies are trying to create “insecurity an... Read more
London. Project to map human brain from womb to birth releases stunning images. A landmark project to map the wiring of the human brain from womb to birth has released thousands of images th... Read more
Tripoli. Nearly 250 refugees dead after shipwrecks off Libyan coast. The final toll of dead and missing from two refugee shipwrecks off Libya at the weekend has risen to 245, the United Nati... Read more
London. Meet Zuul, destroyer of shins – ‘Ghostbuster’ dinosaur. Scientists have identified a 75m-year old dinosaur that bears a striking resemblance to a monster from the f... Read more
MONTREAL/PARIS. United Nations aviation agency seeks global approach to laptop ban. A United Nations agency has launched an effort to craft global guidance for the use of laptops and other p... Read more
Seoul. South Korea’s Moon takes presidency of divided country. South Korea’s liberal leader Moon Jae-in will take the oath of office as president on Wednesday, tasked with naviga... Read more
Washington. Tunnel collapses at Washington nuclear waste plant; no radiation released. A tunnel partly collapsed on Tuesday at a plutonium-handling facility at the Hanford Nuclear Reservatio... Read more
