- BANGKOK: Doctors in Thailand have operated on 88-year-old King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-reigning monarch, to remove excess fluid that was putting pressure on his brain and spinal cord.The doctors used a tube previously placed in the king’s abdomen to drain the fluids in a 75-minute...
- CAIRO: Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza could contain two previously unknown “cavities,” scientists using radiography to scan the millennia-old monument said on Saturday.On Thursday, the antiquities ministry cautiously announced finding “two anomalies” in the pyramid built 4,500 years ago under King...
- JERUSALEM: Israel on Monday jailed a Palestinian for life for the 2015 killing of two Israelis and the wounding of a third in a Tel Aviv knife attack, the Justice Ministry said.A copy of the judgment of the Tel Aviv district court said Rayed Khalil, born in 1979, was sentenced to two life terms...
- ANKARA: The Turkish policeman who assassinated Russian ambassador to Ankara Andrey Karlov at an exhibition center used his police ID to enter the show while armed, the local municipality said.Mevlut Mert Altintas, 22, did not go through the metal detector security check when he entered the...
- WASHINGTON: The prohibition on carry-on electronics for certain flights to the US and Britain shows both Daesh and Al-Qaeda remain able to mount potent threats to civil aviation despite tighter airport security, experts say. On Tuesday, US authorities ordered a ban on laptop computers, tablets...
- LAKE ASSAD, Syria: As US-backed fighters advance on Daesh’s de facto Syrian stronghold Raqqa, a waterway “corridor” has become a key supply line, and an escape route for displaced civilians.An AFP team accompanied fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-Arab alliance that is...
- SALFIT, West Bank: Fuad Maraita wakes up at 3:30 a.m. His hometown of Salfit in the Israeli-occupied West Bank lies in darkness. He drinks coffee, slings a bag with his lunch over his shoulder, gets on a minibus and starts the grueling journey to his job laying tiles at a construction site nea...
- BEIRUT: US-backed Syrian fighters battling Daesh pushed closer to the Old City in the terrorists’ stronghold of Raqqa on Monday, a monitor said as the Syrian regime and Iran-backed militia forces escalated attacks against an opposition-held part of the southern city of Deraa.The Kurdish and Arab...
- TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader has slammed the new US sanctions on Tehran signed by President Donald Trump the previous day, and vowed his country would continue its missile program despite international pressure. Washington will “use any excuse to make a fuss” against Iran, said Ayatollah Ali ...
- CHEFCHAOUEN, Morocco: Huddling against a hillside in northern Morocco is a tourist town famed for the striking blue of its buildings, and now the mayor is mixing in another color — green....
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