Riyadh Yemeni President Abd Rabbu Mansour Hadi chaired Tuesday a meeting of his advisors, in the presence of Vice President Ali Mohsen Saleh al-Ahmar, Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr and Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Abdulmalik al-Mek...
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15 children killed in airstrike on school in Eastern Ghouta: monitor
Beirut, At least fifteen children were killed late Monday when an airstrike hit a school shelter in Eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, a conflict monitor said.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said planes beli...
Read More »Uber halts self-driving cars after pedestrian fatality
Arizona, Uber has suspended testing of its self-driving vehicles Monday after a female pedestrian in the state of Arizona was killed, according to media reports.The woman in Tempe, who was crossing the street outside the lines of a crosswalk, was hit b...
Read More »Sisi, Bashir agree to resolve Ethiopian Renaissance Dam issue
Cairo Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi said on Monday that he agreed with his Sudanese counterpart Omar Hassan al-Bashir on joint action between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia, to resolve the issue of the Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.This came in a joint...
Read More »Rights group: Jewish town’s cancellation of land sale is racist act
Tel Aviv, A Jewish town's cancellation of land sale for new home construction because most of the would-be buyers were Arabs is racist, a rights group charged on Monday, according to WAFA.Kfar Vradim, a Jewish town in the Galilee region of northern Isr...
Read More »Facebook under pressure as US, EU urge probes of data practices
British privacy regulators are seeking a warrant to search the offices of the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica late Monday following reports that the company may have improperly gained access to data on 50 million Facebook users, according to ...
Read More »Yemeni Man Seeks Guantanamo Release After 16 Years
WASHINGTON, Lawyers for a longtime Guantanamo Bay detainee asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to intervene after the Trump administration disregarded a review board's decision clearing him for release.Moath al-Alwi has been held in Guantanamo for mo...
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