World
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International
2/1/2025 6:34:13 PM
Pakistani separatist militants claimed on Saturday an attack on a highway in a volatile southwestern province that killed 18 paramilitaries and seriously wounded three others.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
1/29/2025 4:04:23 PM
Egypt’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs established an operations room to track the situation of Egyptian citizens in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as unrest and security instability escalate.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
12/17/2024 10:08:47 PM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi reaffirmed in a phone call with his Cypriot counterpart, Nikos Christodoulides, the urgency of reaching a ceasefire agreement in Gaza, exchanging captives, and ensuring unrestricted access to humanitarian aid by the people in the strip.
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World
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Africa
9/18/2024 6:09:36 PM
West African bloc ECOWAS on Wednesday expressed "strong condemnation" of jihadist attacks which a day earlier hit the Malian capital where questions remained about the rare and deadly strike.
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World
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Africa
9/17/2024 12:32:30 PM
Gunmen attacked a military police base early Tuesday in the Malian capital Bamako where gunfire and explosions were heard and the airport was closed, sources, witnesses and an AFP correspondent said.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
8/20/2024 6:25:47 PM
Disinformation can have horrendous repercussions and create unrest in the communities it targets, writes Azza Radwan Sedky
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World
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International
8/19/2024 5:44:28 PM
A Bangladeshi war crimes tribunal set up by ousted premier Sheikh Hasina has launched three "mass murder" probes into its founder over the unrest that forced her to flee the country, its investigator said Monday.
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World
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International
8/8/2024 4:13:42 PM
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer vowed on Thursday not to ease up efforts to stop further far-right riots in English towns and cities after more anticipated street violence failed to materialize overnight.
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World
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International
8/6/2024 1:41:15 PM
Bangladesh’s president dissolved parliament Tuesday, clearing the way for new elections to replace the longtime prime minister who resigned and fled the country following weeks of demonstrations against her rule that descended into violent unrest.
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World
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International
8/6/2024 11:56:56 AM
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that a “standing army” of specialist police would be set up to deal with rioting and that the justice system would be ramped up to handle hundreds of arrests after violent disorder rocked cities across the nation over the past week.
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World
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International
8/6/2024 10:44:08 AM
A key organizer of Bangladesh’s student protests Tuesday called for Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus to be named as the head of a new interim government, a day after longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina resigned and fled the country after weeks of deadly unrest.
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World
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International
7/30/2024 2:52:33 PM
Bangladesh's government called for a day of mourning Tuesday for victims of violence in nationwide unrest, but students denounced the gesture as disrespectful of classmates killed during clashes with police this month.
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World
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International
7/25/2024 1:37:32 PM
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina wept Thursday as she surveyed the destruction wrought by days of deadly unrest, as student leaders weighed the future of the protests that precipitated the disorder.
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World
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International
7/24/2024 7:38:08 PM
Torn portraits of Bangladesh's independence hero litter a ransacked state television station -- a pointed expression of public fury against his daughter, who just witnessed the worst unrest of her premiership.
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World
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International
7/23/2024 1:39:36 PM
The number of arrests in days of violence in Bangladesh passed the 2,500 mark in an AFP tally on Tuesday, after protests over employment quotas sparked widespread unrest.
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World
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International
7/22/2024 9:46:38 AM
Bangladesh’s top court on Sunday scaled back a controversial quota system for government job applicants, a partial victory for student protesters after days of nationwide unrest and deadly clashes between police and demonstrators that have killed scores of people.
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World
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International
7/21/2024 10:40:26 AM
Bangladeshi authorities extended a curfew across the country on Sunday as the nation's top court was expected to rule on a civil service hiring quota that has led to days of deadly clashes between police and protesters, killing scores of people.
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World
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International
7/20/2024 11:45:26 AM
Soldiers were patrolling Bangladeshi cities on Saturday to quell growing civil unrest sparked by student demonstrations, with riot police firing on protesters who defied a government curfew.
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World
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War in Sudan
7/1/2024 10:13:16 PM
Sudanese mother of four Hoda Ahmed has been running with her family for over a year. But every time she tries to outrun the war between Sudan's army and paramilitary forces, it catches up to her.
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World
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Africa
6/8/2024 12:42:01 PM
Two local officials in Ethiopia's northern Amhara state have been killed after the central government let expire a state of emergency that was declared for the conflict-wracked region last year, authorities said.
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