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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/7/2022 5:36:23 PM
The UN nuclear watchdog's head said Monday he hoped Moscow and Kyiv would agree within hours to his offer to discuss nuclear safety after Russia seized Europe's largest power plant in Ukraine.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/6/2022 9:04:56 PM
The International Atomic Energy Agency has said Russian forces are tightening their grip on the Zaporizhzhya nuclear plant, Ukraine's largest, that they seized last week.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/4/2022 11:48:14 AM
Russian forces seized control of Europe's largest nuclear power plant on Friday after a battle with Ukrainian troops that caused a fire and fears of a catastrophic accident.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
3/3/2022 3:47:37 PM
Russian forces have seized a strategic Ukrainian seaport and besieged another as part of efforts to cut the country off from its coastline, even as Moscow said Thursday it was ready for talks to end the fighting that has sent more than 1 million people fleeing over Ukraine's borders.
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Antiquities
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Greco-Roman
3/1/2022 4:40:39 PM
The archaeological unit at Cairo International Airport — in cooperation with the Cairo Airport Police — seized earlier in the week ten Graeco-Roman and Byzantine coins along with a metal Coptic cross in the possession of a passenger.
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World
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Region
2/2/2022 12:26:12 PM
Some public universities opened in Afghanistan on Wednesday for the first time since the Taliban seized power in August, with a trickle of women attending classes that officials said would be segregated by sex.
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World
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Africa
1/25/2022 11:31:24 AM
More than a dozen mutinous soldiers declared Monday on state television that a military junta had seized control of Burkina Faso after detaining the democratically elected president following a day of gunbattles in the capital of the West African country.
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World
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Africa
1/24/2022 8:26:47 PM
Soldiers in Burkina Faso announced over state television Monday that they had seized power in the West African nation and dissolved its government and parliament.
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World
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International
1/19/2022 10:13:59 AM
The Taliban's prime minister called Wednesday on Muslim nations to be the first to officially recognise the government that seized power in Afghanistan in August.
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World
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Region
1/15/2022 12:20:12 PM
Yemen's Houthi rebels on Saturday rejected a UN request to release an Emirati-flagged vessel they seized earlier this month, saying it carried weapons.
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World
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Region
1/9/2022 3:26:25 PM
The United Nations found thousands of weapons recently seized in the Arabian Sea likely came from a single port in Iran, evidence Tehran is exporting arms to Yemen and elsewhere, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
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World
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International
1/8/2022 10:42:25 PM
Kosovo police on Saturday seized hundreds of cryptocurrency mining machines and arrested one person in the tense ethnic-Serb majority north as the country suffered an energy crisis.
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World
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Region
1/8/2022 10:35:24 PM
A Saudi-led military coalition on Saturday accused Yemeni rebels and their Iranian backers of using two Red Sea ports for military purposes, after the Houthis seized an Emirati-flagged vessel.
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World
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Region
1/8/2022 6:10:08 PM
The Taliban's foreign minister visited Iran on Saturday to discuss Afghan refugees and a growing economic crisis, in the first such trip to the neighbouring country since the hardline Islamists seized power.
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Antiquities
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Greco-Roman
1/5/2022 5:02:17 PM
A chandelier and nine gold and metal coins from the Byzantine and Ptolemaic periods were seized at the Cairo International Airport before being smuggled abroad on Tuesday.
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World
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Region
1/3/2022 12:14:51 PM
Yemen's Houthi rebels seized an Emirati-flagged ship in the Red Sea, officials said Monday, the latest sign of Mideast tensions as hackers targeted a major Israeli newspaper's website to mark America's 2020 killing of an Iranian general.
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World
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International
12/23/2021 10:26:45 AM
The U.S. Navy said it seized a large cache of assault rifles and ammunition being smuggled by a fishing ship from Iran likely bound for war-ravaged Yemen.
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World
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International
12/16/2021 12:22:47 PM
The US Navy has rescued five Iranian sailors injured in an explosion that erupted on their vessel and seized its cargo of illegal drugs, a statement said on Thursday.
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World
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Region
12/11/2021 5:04:16 PM
Security forces in Lebanon and Syria said Saturday that they had seized two separate shipments of the banned stimulant captagon, the latest in a string of similar busts.
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World
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International
12/5/2021 12:01:46 PM
Myanmar soldiers wounded at least three people after ramming a car into a peaceful anti-coup rally in Yangon, eyewitnesses said Sunday.
The country has been in turmoil since February when the military seized power, triggering nationwide demonstrations which the junta sought to quell with violent crackdowns and mass arrests.
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