Baghdad (AFP) Sept 11, 2020 - Thousands of supporters of Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr gathered at a mosque in east Baghdad on Friday for the first weekly prayers since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Kalynivka, Ukraine (AFP) Sept 27, 2017 - One of Ukraine's largest arms depots caught fire and exploded in what prosecutors said Wednesday was a likely act of sabotage that forced the evacuation of more than 30,000 people.
Washington (AFP) Sept 4, 2018 - Two of President Donald Trump's top officials are finally heading for talks in India this week, after Washington twice pulled the plug on the summit.
Palma, Spain (AFP) Sept 23, 2019 - Standing in a long line or sitting on their suitcases, anxious Thomas Cook passengers at Palma airport faced an uncertain wait on Monday for a flight to Britain following the collapse of the travel giant.
London (AFP) Sept 16, 2016 - More than a third of Saudi-led air strikes on Yemen have struck civilian sites including schools, hospitals and mosques, according to a survey of the conflict published in the Guardian on Friday.
Ankara (AFP) Sept 12, 2021 - The number of Turkish soldiers killed in an attack in Syria on Saturday has risen from two to three, Turkey's defence ministry said.
Baghdad (AFP) Sept 29, 2016 - When Ahmed Saadawi finished writing Frankenstein in Baghdad, a dark fantasy about the war that tore Iraq apart a decade ago, he thought his novel dealt with the past.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 12, 2021 - From rural poverty to real estate billions, the fortunes of Xu Jiayin tracked China's runaway growth for much of the past two decades - but now he is battling to save his Evergrande conglomerate from a quagmire of debt.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 15, 2021 - Debt-mired developer Evergrande is struggling to appease angry homebuyers and investors knocking on its doors for cash taken as deposits for unbuilt homes and promised yields.
Havana (AFP) Sept 24, 2015 - Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos and Timoleon Timochenko Jimenez, the leader of the FARC rebels, announced a major breakthrough Wednesday in peace talks to end a conflict that has burned for half a century.
Washington (AFP) Sept 28, 2012 - The US military's current fleet of drones will soon be overtaken by a new wave of robots that will be faster, stealthier and smarter - operating virtually without human intervention, experts say.
Moscow (AFP) Sept 19, 2017 - Stanislav Petrov, a Soviet military officer who is widely credited with helping prevent a nuclear war with the United States, has died aged 77, his son told AFP on Tuesday.
Beijing (AFP) Sept 12, 2021 - With YouTube videos debunking allegations of human rights abuses and diatribes on Western conspiracies against China, an unlikely set of foreigners are loudly defending Beijing from its international critics.
Perpignan, France (AFP) Sept 10, 2017 - Finalists in one of photojournalism's most prestigious awards competition came away with far more than pictures while covering the fight for Iraq's Mosul, the longest urban battle since Stalingrad.
Washington (UPI) Oct 04 2006 - For the first time a senior Saudi official has spoken out publicly before a Western audience on the tensions between Sunni and Shiite sects of Islam and acknowledged that the Shiite minority in Saudi Arabia have suffered social and political alienation and discrimination.
Washington (UPI) Feb. 6, 2007 - U.S. President George W. Bush's splurge is already bringing premature claims of success, even though the first troops are just arriving in Iraq. A column in the Jan. 29 Washington Times by retired Marine Col. Oliver North quotes an American officer in Iraq as saying, Do they (Members of Congress opposed to the war) even know that in the last two weeks we have set AQI (al-Qaida in Iraq) and the Mahdi Army both back on their heels?
