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  • US ramps up crackdown on undocumented immigrants

    The US administration has issued tough new orders to begin a sweeping crackdown on undocumented immigrants, putting nearly all of the country's 11 million undocumented foreigners in target for deportation. Two memos signed by Department of Homeland (DHS) Security Secretary John Kelly on Tuesday make it easier for officials to automatically expel undocumented.. More

  • Red Crescent: 74 dead refugees wash ashore in Zawiya

    Libya's Red Crescent has said that 74 bodies of refugees have washed ashore in the western city of Zawiya on the Mediterranean Sea. The aid organization’s spokesman Mohammed al-Misrati told the AP news agency that the bodies washed ashore on Tuesday morning. He said the circumstances involving the drownings were not clear yet. The agency posted.. More

  • UN demands action as famine looms in three countries

    Almost 1.4 million children suffering from severe malnutrition could die this year as famine looms Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen, the UN children's agency said. The warning comes a day after government officials and the United Nations declared famine in parts of South Sudan. In Yemen, where war has been raging for nearly two years, 462,000 children are.. More

  • Egypt jails 21 opponents for life for ‘violence’

    An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced 21 anti-regime opponents to life for allegedly committing violence following the 2013 coup against president Mohamed Morsi, according to a local judicial source. The defendants -- who were tried in absentia -- were charged with promoting violence in Menoufiya province in the Nile Delta in 2013, the source said,.. More

  • Iran accused of undermining Middle East security

    Saudi Arabia has demanded at the Munich security conference that Iran be punished, saying that the country was propping up the Syrian regime, developing ballistic missiles and funding separatists in Yemen. Adel al-Jubeir, the Saudi foreign minister, on Sunday described Iran as the main sponsor of global "terrorism" and a destabilizing force.. More

  • Syria's 'White Helmets' makers get US visas for Oscars

    Rescue workers from Syria's White Helmets - the subjects of an Oscar-nominated documentary - have received US visas to attend next week's Academy Awards ceremony. Raed Saleh, leader of the group, and cinematographer Khaled Khatib have been given visas for the February 26 ceremony in Los Angeles, producer Joanna Natasegara said. For weeks, the rescuers.. More

  • Palestinian man shot dead before last chemo session

    Israeli authorities returned the body of slain Palestinian Muhammad Thabet Jallad on Friday to his home in Tulkarem city in the northern occupied West Bank, after the 25-year-old succumbed to a gunshot wound inflicted by Israeli forces in November. Three months ago, Muhammad, on his way to his last chemotherapy session when he had boarded the wrong.. More

  • US: Middle East peace may not be two-state solution

    US President Donald Trump has dropped Washington's commitment for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, backing away from a long-held position of the US and the international community in the Middle East. In a joint press conference on Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump said he would back a single-state.. More

  • US confirms use of depleted uranium in Syria

    The U.S. used thousands of depleted uranium rounds in two 2015 air raids in Syria, Central Command confirmed on Tuesday. The controversial munition had not been used by the U.S. since the occupation of Iraq where it has continued to illicit claims of lingering health effects, particularly in Fallujah where U.S. forces fought intense close-quarters.. More

  • Syria talks delayed due to 'technical reasons': Kazakhstan

    Kazakhstan said Wednesday a new round of Astana talks on the Syria conflict led by Russia, Turkey and Iran scheduled to begin February 15 would be delayed by a day due to unexplained "technical reasons". "The negotiations have been moved to February 16 for technical reasons," a spokeswoman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said... More

  • Mexico: Massive anti-Trump rallies staged across nation

    Mexicans have held massive protests against US President Donald Trump, hitting back at his anti-Mexican rhetoric and vows to make Mexico pay for a "big, beautiful" border wall between the two countries. Marches got under way on Sunday in some 20 cities across the country, including the capital, Mexico City, where thousands of people flooded.. More

  • UN: NATO air raids kill 18 civilians in Helmand

    Civilians, mostly women and children, were killed last week in air raids by NATO forces in Afghanistan's Helmand province, an initial United Nations inquiry suggested. On Thursday and Friday as many as 18 civilians died in air strikes in Helmand's Sangin district, according to a UN statement released on Sunday. The UN said the strikes had been conducted.. More

  • Swiss referendum on citizenship after anti-Muslim row

    Switzerland is holding a referendum on Sunday on whether to make it easier for third generation immigrants to become citizens, after a campaign tainted by anti-Muslim messages and charges of religious prejudice. The government, as well as most politicians and political parties, supports the proposal that would allow the grandchildren of immigrants.. More

  • US Muslim rights group finds itself in the crosshairs

    A US congressional candidate has become the latest legislator to label the country's largest Muslim rights group a "terrorist" organization. Republican Josh Mandel, who is also Ohio treasurer, claimed on Wednesday that the Council on America-Islamic Relations (CAIR) "is Hamas". Mandel posted an article on social media in reference.. More

  • Intense raids kill dozens in Syria's Idlib

    Dozens of people, including civilians, have been killed in air strikes on the opposition-held Syrian city of Idlib, according to several sources, in some of the most ferocious raids there in months. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Tuesday that at least 26 people were killed and casualties were expected to rise as rescue workers searched.. More