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The European Union could be breaching international rules by using aid intended to promote development in Africa to stem migration into Europe, according to a new report by Oxfam. The report published Thursday reveals that six out of 16 EU-funded migration actions in Niger, Libya and Tunisia worth a total €667 million potentially breach the aid rules […]

If Iran gets nuclear weapon, ‘we have to get one’: Saudi Crown Prince Saudi Arabia will have to get a nuclear weapon if Iran gets one, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman tells Fox News in an exclusive interview. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. (File photo) If Iran gets nuclear weapon, ‘we have to […]

All the latest developments from the war in Ukraine.xplosion on ship heading for Ukraine A blast has torn through a ship sailing to Ukraine near Romania, announced the authorities who are now searching for possible mines. “A boat flying the flag of Togo… reported an explosion in the engine room” in the early hours of […]

Ukraine breaches Russian defense line near Bakhmut; more gains reported in south; incredible partisan operations; Russia’s increasingly dire tank situation. verview Ukraine says it breached Russian defense line near Bakhmut Further Ukrainian gains in south Russian soldiers blowing up comrades for cash, partisans claim Russia’s tank situation is bad and it’s only going to get […]

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen will visit the Italian island of Lampedusa on Sunday after 8,500 migrants arrived by boat in three days, an EU official announced. The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will travel on Sunday with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni to the island of Lampedusa, where thousands […]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan received Sudan’s army chief in Ankara as part of an official visit Wednesday as fighting between the African nation’s factions nears its sixth month. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan shake hands at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Sept. 13, 2023. (DHA Photo) He and Gen. Abdel-Fattah al-Burhan, who […]

The spokesman for the Ministry of the Interior in the government appointed by the House of Representatives, Tariq Al-Kharaz, said on Tuesday that the death toll of Storm Daniel, which struck the eastern region of the country, reached 5,200 people in Derna alone, adding that 1,300 bodies out of that number were buried after the […]

OUTSIDE AGNDIZ, Morocco (Reuters) -With many roads still blocked by landslides, some Moroccan villagers on Wednesday loaded donkeys with supplies to take to communities in remote areas inaccessible by vehicle, while others picked through the ruins of their homes and grieved lost family member Aftermath of a deadly earthquake in Morocco© Thomson Reuters Aftermath of a deadly […]

A man in traditional dress walks through the devastation in Moulay Brahim, Morocco [Simon Speakman Cordall/Al Jazeera] Tiniskt, Morocco – The 6.8-magnitude earthquake that ripped through southwest Morocco has also cut through deeper social fault lines, separating the city dweller from those in the countryside and the comfortable from the desperate and poor, whose adobe houses […]

Baltic states acquire billion dollar air defence system Estonia and Latvia on Monday struck a joint deal to purchase a German-made medium-range air defence system. The two Baltic states also signed a letter of intent to participate in Germany’s European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI), launched last year after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “This is by […]