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Earthquake has hit Myanmar, felt in Thailand, Bangladesh, India

Aug 24, 2016

A 6.8 magnitude earthquake has hit central Myanmar, and was felt in Thailand, Bangladesh and India, reports say.The quake struck 25km (15.5 miles) west of Chauk, at a depth of 84km, the US Geological Survey said.No casualties…

Libyan forces capture money, gold and arms in IS Hisbah building, Sirte

Aug 23, 2016

The Libyan forces of Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous found large amounts of gold, money, Tunisian currency, phone airtime cards and weapons at the Hisbah headquarters (Court) of IS terrorists in Sirte.This discovery of those sums of money and…

Conjoined twins born in Syria’s Aleppo die a month later

Aug 24, 2016

One-month-old conjoined twins who were evacuated from a besieged rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital Damascus have died, a medical charity says.Nawras and Moaz were joined at the chest, with hearts in the same sac.The…

House of Representatives rejects GNA’s cabinet

Aug 22, 2016

Tobruk-based House of Representatives voted on Monday against a motion of confidence in the Tripoli-based administration, in a rare session of the parliament based in the east of the country.Spokesman of the HoR, Abdallah Bilhig,…

Dignity Operation’s warplanes kill 5 Sudanese nationals in Ganfuda

Aug 22, 2016

Five members of a North Darfur family were killed in an air raid in Benghazi in Libya on Friday.A Sudanese friend of the victims told Radio Dabanga on Sunday that a fighter jet dropped two bombs on a residential building in the…

Libya is major sea route to Europe for illegal migrants, IOM reported

Aug 22, 2016

The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has said that Libya is a major country for immigration to Europe from North Africa.According to the organisation, some 77,000 people reached Europe through Libya during the first…

Greece bans blood donations over fears of contracting malaria

Aug 22, 2016

Twelve districts of Greece have banned blood donations because of malaria, with four cases this year contracted domestically, local media report.In the 61 other cases recorded, the sufferers became infected on the Indian…

General Electricity Company employees urge Presidential Council to pay them their salaries

Aug 22, 2016

The General Electricity Company employees went on a sit-in on Sunday to demand their salaries, which have not been paid for them since last March, saying they will go on a strike if their salaries were not paid immediately.The…

Iraqi forces hanged 36 IS militants convicted over Camp Speicher massacre in 2014

Aug 22, 2016

Iraq has hanged 36 men convicted over the killing of up to 1,700 military recruits at a former US base in 2014.The massacre at Camp Speicher, near Tikrit, was carried out by fighters from so-called Islamic State (IS) as it seized…

Murder of transgender woman sparks LGBT protests in Turkey

Aug 22, 2016

Scores of Turks have taken part in a peaceful protest in central Istanbul calling for justice over the murder of a transgender woman, Hande Kader.They held signs and chanted slogans for Kader, 23, an LGBT activist, whose burned body…

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