Wednesday, 20 February, 2019
MADRID: Spain’s parliament on Friday ousted Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in a no-confidence vote sparked by fury over his party’s corruption woes, with his Socialist arch-rival Pedro Sanchez…
Attack on forces of US or allies will be a bad policy
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon on Thursday warned Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to carry out an offensive…
US will veto UN draft on
protecting Palestinians: Haley
UNITED NATIONS: The United States will “unquestionably veto” a UN draft resolution calling…
Traffickers kill 12 migrants trying to flee Libya camp: UN
GENEVA: More than 12 migrants were shot dead by human traffickers last week while trying to escape a…
Al-Qaeda warns Saudi crown prince over ‘sin’
DUBAI: Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula has warned Saudi Arabia’s reformist Crown Prince Mohammed…
Belgium charges Abdeslam
accomplice over 2016 bombings
BRUSSELS: A Belgian judge has charged an accomplice of Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam with a terror…
Anti-Kremlin
journalist defends faking own murder
KIEV: Russian journalist Arkady Babchenko on Thursday defended faking his own murder with the cooperation…
Danish circumcision ban to go to
parliament
STOCKHOLM: A petition calling for a ban on male circumcision in Denmark will now go to parliament after…
Lions, tigers, jaguar escape
from German zoo
Two lions, two tigers and a jaguar have escaped from a zoo in Lünebach in western Germany, police…
News of the day
Britain’s national security advisor Mark Sedwill held talks in The Hague on Thursday, as London…
Demonstrators march with a giant Palestinian flag
Demonstrators march with a giant Palestinian flag at Istiklal avenue at Istanbul in Turkey on Thursday…