After seven decades in the skies, it’s the end for Alitalia

After more than seven decades in the skies, Alitalia will make its final voyage on Thursday with a late evening flight to Rome from Cagliari in Sardinia.When the plane touches down a little after 11pm, Italy’s national airline will have…

US Congress Committee: Democracy in Tunisia is in danger

Democracy in Tunisia is in danger following a series of executive orders issued by President Kais Saied, the Congress Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa and Global Counterterrorism said yesterday. This came…

UN says Sudanese migrant killed in Tripoli

A Sudanese migrant was beaten, shot and killed in Libya after escaping from a government-run detention center in the capital Tripoli, the U.N. refugee agency said on Wednesday. The 25-year-old who arrived in Libya two years ago was…

WHO regional committee now in the hands of Libya

Hala Zayed, Egypt’s minister of health and population, handed over the presidency of the 68th session of the World Health Organisation’s Regional Committee for the Eastern Mediterranean to her Libyan counterpart Ali Mohamed Miftah…

Israeli airstrike on Homs kills 1 and wounded 4

An Israeli airstrike in central Syria killed one Syrian soldier and three pro-Iranian fighters on Wednesday, a Britain-based war monitor said. The Syrian state news agency SANA had earlier quoted a military source as saying that the…

Algeria rejects participation, any talks on Western Sahara

Algeria announced on Wednesday its refusal to participate in any future negotiations on the disputed Western Sahara territory. Special envoy to the foreign ministry, Ammar Ballani, said Morocco’s invitation to Algeria to a roundtable on…

Eye for an eye: Iranian man sentenced to be blinded

A court in Tehran has sentenced a man to be blinded as punishment after he caused a man to lose the use of one eye following a fight, according to the IranWire news website The 45-year-old man was sentenced under the Iranian legal…