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BBC - Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader, was killed by a highly toxic nerve agent, says Malaysia.Mr Kim died last week after two women accosted him briefly in a check-in hall at a Kuala Lumpur airport.…

A delegation from Turkey’s IHH humanitarian relief organization visited Tripoli’s Al-Hadaba Prison this week to inspect conditions at the facility, Anadolu Agency reported on Friday.An IHH official, who preferred not to divulge his…

BBC - Iraqi forces have entered a neighbourhood in West Mosul for the first time since launching an operation to retake it from so-called Islamic State (IS) five days ago.It comes a day after troops retook the city's airport from…

According to media and social media pages, clashes are ongoing now, Thursday night, in Abu Salim district, downtown Tripoli.The sources said that the clashes are between armed groups from the UN-brokered Government of National…

BBC - Russia's military has admitted for the first time the scale of its information warfare effort, saying it was significantly expanded post-Cold War.Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that Russian "information troops" were…

Thirteen African migrants suffocated inside a shipping container while being transported over four days between two Libyan towns, a Red Crescent official said Thursday.Osama al-Fadly, head of the Red Crescent in Libya, told The…

BBC - Iraqi security forces have recaptured Mosul airport, a key part of the government's offensive to drive the so-called Islamic State (IS) from the western half of the city.The operation took four hours. IS continued to fire…