Despite Qatari attendance at recent high-profile Saudi summit, there is little sign the Gulf crisis is nearing an end. Two years after four Arab countries blockaded Qatar, there remains little sign the political crisis – the worst in the Gulf region for years – is edging any closer towards a resolution. Saudi Arabia, the United

35 protesters were killed Monday night when security forces tried to disperse sit-in in Sudanese capital At least 60 Sudanese demonstrators were killed as Sudanese security forces moved in to clear the main protest camp near the army headquarters in the capital, Khartoum, according to Sudan’s pro-opposition Central Doctors Committee on Wednesday. Late Monday night,

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei delivers a speech during a ceremony marking the 30th death anniversary of the founder of the Islamic Republic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran, Iran June 4, 2019. Official Khamenei website/Handout via REUTERS Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday that Tehran would not be “deceived” by U.S.

At least 13 protestors killed, hundreds wounded when security forces storm Khartoum sit-in The international community deplored a bloody crackdown by Sudanese security forces Monday against protestors staging a sit-in in the capital Khartoum which left at least 13 dead and hundreds wounded. British Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt condemned the attack. “This is an outrageous

Kenya has banned fishing activities off the Coast near the Somalia border over security concerns. Lamu County Commissioner Joseph Kanyiri says all fishermen are prohibited from carrying out their activities in Ras Kamboni and any other areas past Kiunga Town, all of which lay close to the Kenya-Somalia border. In an exclusive interview with the

Protesters flee along side streets away from a sit-in, after security forces tried to disperse them, in central Khartoum, Sudan in this still frame taken from June 3, 2019 social media video. Sudan Congress Party/via REUTERS Sudanese forces entered the site of a sit-in in central Khartoum early on Monday amid gunfire, witnesses and Arab

Expert predicts ‘hot, smoky future’ with climate change factor More than 10,000 people have fled communities in the Canadian province of Alberta as of Friday and hundreds of firefighters were battling blazes. Many evacuees are members of Indigenous and Metis communities and a significant number have lost more than their homes.“It’s like a burnt piece

By BEN FINLEY Emergency vehicles respond near the intersection of Princess Anne Road and Nimmo Parkway following a shooting at the Virginia Beach Municipal Center on Friday, May 31, 2019, in Virginia Beach, Va. At least one shooter wounded multiple people at a municipal center in Virginia Beach on Friday, according to police, who said

A surge in communal violence has coincided with the early days of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s tenure. Ahmed is shown last month at a conference in Beijing. (Alexey Nikolsky / Sputnik) On a drenched field in southern Ethiopia, hundreds of members of the ethnic Gedeo community are huddled together with nothing to do but

Afghans look at at a car hit damaged a suicide bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan May 31, 2019. REUTERS/ Omar Sobhani A car bomb attack on a U.S. convoy in the Afghan capital on Friday, wounded four U.S. service members and killed at least four Afghan civilians, officials said, in the second attack in the