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126 fellow migrants drowned off Libya last week when their flimsy rubber dinghy foundered after smugglers removed the engine and fled, the U.N. migration agency said Monday, according to four survivors.Flavio Di Giacomo of the…

The Regional African Satellite Communication Organization (RASCOM) in Libya, which is based in Gharyan, denied the rumors that said that the partly-owned by Libya satellite, RascomStar-QAF1, had been stolen by Gulf states.The Gharyan…

Iraqi forces launched an assault Sunday to retake Mosul's Old City, the last district still held by the Islamic State group three years after the jihadists seized the northern city and declared their "caliphate", Agence-France Presse.…

The Syrian army said it would suspend combat operations in the southern city of Deraa for 48 hours from Saturday, as mediators announced two separate attempts to convene new peace talks next month, Reuters reported.The Syrian army…

A forest fire raging since Saturday in central Portugal has killed at least 57 people, a government official said on Sunday, in what is possibly the deadliest-ever single forest blaze in Portugal."It is the greatest tragedy of human…

The Libyan authorities from the Operation Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous handed over Friday 8 children of Sudanese nationality to Sudan's representative in Libya.The Sudanese representative will later supervise the process of transporting…

At least three women were killed and nine wounded after an explosive device went off in a restroom in a busy shopping centre in Colombia's capital, Bogota, officials say, Al-Jazeera wrote.The Andino shopping centre in an exclusive…

Uganda is planning to send about 1,000 medical workers to Libya, an official said on Friday, a plan criticised by health activists who believe it would further weaken the country's struggling health care system.Over the last decade,…

Russia said on Saturday that airstrikes carried out this month had killed about 180 Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria, including two field commanders.“As a result of June 6 and 8 aerial strikes on targets belonging to IS…