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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…

IS suffers major loss as Libyan forces advance more into its last hideouts

Aug 22, 2016

The media office of Al-Bunyan Al-Marsous operation of the UN-brokered Government of National Accord said its Misurata-led forces had advanced into the last two spots of IS militants in Sirte in Neighbourhoods 1 and 3.The media…

Erdogan: Suicide bomb attack in Gaziantep carried out by 12-year-old boy

Aug 21, 2016

A suicide bombing which killed 51 people in the Turkish city of Gaziantep was carried out by a 12 to 14-year-old, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.Mr Erdogan said the so-called Islamic State (IS) was behind the attack, which…

Mass rally in support of Houthi-led council takes place in Sanaa amid Saudi-led airstrikes

Aug 21, 2016

Large numbers of Yemenis have taken part in a demonstration in the capital Sanaa in support of Houthi rebels and their allies, who control the city.Demonstrators backed a new governing council announced by the rebels.Shortly…

Sabratha holds fine arts exhibition to advocate peace

Aug 21, 2016

For the third consecutive day, the Sabratha Fine Arts Exhibition continues to showcase different artworks under the name "With culture and arts, countries get built and so do minds", supervised by the Sabratha civil society and culture…

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