The Islamic Republic has denied that it launched an attack. Ballistic missiles appeared to have been launched towards the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq over the weekend, according to local social media reports.
As delegates to a congress of the far-right Alternative for Germany voted for the executive committee of the new party youth organization, candidates struck a staunchly right-wing tone, leading to bizarre and chilling scenes on Saturday. Kevin Dorow, a young AfD politician from the state of Schleswig-Holstein elected to the leadership committee of the Generation Deutschland (GD), the new AfD youth organization, called on members not to distance themselves from the so-called periphery or "those w
The park is named after Belfast-born and Dublin-raised Chaim Herzog, a former president of Israel.
Moldovan President Maia Sandu complained that her country's airspace has also been violated in the course of massive Russian drone attacks on Ukraine, in a social media post on Saturday. "On their way to kill civilians, Russian drones have once again violated Moldovan airspace, forcing its temporary closure," Sandu said.
Hezbollah's chief, Sheikh Naim Qassem, said on Friday that the movement has the right to respond to Israel's assassination of its top military commander in a strike on Beirut's southern suburbs last Sunday. In a televised speech, Qassem condemned the killing of Haitham Ali Tabatabai as "a blatant aggression and a heinous crime," adding that Hezbollah "has the right to respond.
Rights groups gave harrowing details about conditions in Israeli detention centres. Israel has not responded but has previously denied allegations of torture.
LONDON () -Britain said on Friday it would temporarily stop imports of pork meat from parts of Spain after the country confirmed its first cases of African swine fever in just over three decades. Britain is one of Spain's main customers for pork, and the move comes as authorities in Madrid activated emergency measures in Catalonia, a region central to pig farming.
Senegal's prime minister and Nigeria's former leader say they do not believe the military takeover was genuine.
Russia's telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor has threatened to completely block WhatsApp in the country following previous restrictions on the messaging service. If WhatsApp does not meet the requirements of Russian legislation, it will be blocked, the state news agency TASS quoted Roskomnadzor as saying in a statement on Friday.
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