CAIRO (Reuters) - Israeli settlers killed two Palestinians on Monday in the occupied West Bank province of Nablus, Salah Bani Jaber, the mayor of Aqraba, told Reuters."About 50 settlers, a large number of them armed, attacked the residents of Khirbet al-Tawil village east of Aqraba in the province of Nablus. They opened fire on the youth and this led to the death of two of the youth and the injury of others,” the mayor said.Tensions have been running high across the occupied West Bank since...
UN human rights office expresses concern over escalating violence after deaths near Nablus over weekendThe UN and the UK have voiced grave concern over escalating violence in the West Bank, demanding that Israeli security forces “immediately” stop supporting settler attacks on Palestinians in the occupied territory.The comments came hours after two Palestinian men were killed by Israeli settlers in a northern village south of Nablus in the latest violent attack involving settlers in the...
Rights groups condemn arrest of Macmillan Mhone, who was charged with ‘publication of news likely to cause fear and alarm’Human rights watchdogs have condemned the arrest of a journalist in Malawi in connection with an article accusing a wealthy businessman of corruption.Police in Blantyre detained Macmillan Mhone on Monday over a story that was published online last August on the Malawi 24 news site. Continue reading
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By Evelyn Usman No fewer than 15 suspected hoodlums, who invaded four villages in Ado-Odo Local Government Area of Ogun State, weekend and inflicted injuries on the residents and carted away cash and other valuables, have been arrested by the Ogun State Police Command. The hoodlums numbering over 50, were said to have announced their […]
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested after a bishop and several churchgoers
During the past several weeks, agents with the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit Drug Task Force have made several arrests and seized large amounts of illicit narcotics in the judicial circuit, Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said.
HIDALGO COUNTY, Texas (ValleyCentral) — Two detention officers were arrested for allegedly using excessive force on inmates. Alan Omar Jalomo, 26, and Malik John William Lee, 26, were both arrested by the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office on a charge of official oppression, a class A misdemeanor, according to a news release. When complaints of excessive []
New York, April 9, 2024—Russian authorities must drop all charges against Russian journalist and writer Mikhail Zygar and stop harassing exiled members of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Tuesday. “The shameful issuing of an arrest warrant for Mikhail Zygar by the Russian authorities shows both their determination to intimidate journalists in exile
People find landscape in southern Gaza city marked by shattered buildings and stench of death from under the rubbleCivilians return to Khan Younis – in picturesThousands of Palestinians, exhausted by six months of unrelenting war and multiple displacements, trudged back to the devastated city of Khan Younis on Monday, a day after Israel’s unexpected withdrawal of its forces from southern Gaza.With many making the journey on foot from nearby Rafah, they struggled to find homes that had been...
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the Biden administration was demanding the Israeli Defense Forces makes “deconfliction changes’ in Gaza Partial transcript as follow: MARTHA RADDATZ: He says this is a war against