Jonathan Pollard, an American jailed in the US in 1985 for spying for Israel, landed in the Jewish state on Wednesday after Washington released him from parole conditions last month, Israeli media reported. Pollard, 66, served 30 years in prison for giving away classified US documents, and had been confined by parole terms to the […]

Weekend communal clashes in southeast Guinea left more than 20 people dead, a local lawmaker said Tuesday. Regional governor Mohamed Ghare had Sunday spoken of 11 dead but added Tuesday the toll had “evolved” upwards without giving further details. But a lawmaker in the town of Macenta told AFP by telephone: “There are officially 11 […]

President Abdelmadjid Tebboune returned to Algeria Tuesday after a two-month absence in Germany, where he received treatment for Covid-19, ending a period of uncertainty in a country facing a health, political and economic crises. “It is hard to be far from one’s country and even harder for someone who has a lot of responsibility,” Tebboune […]

U.S. President-elect Joe Biden on Monday said the outgoing Donald Trump administration was doing “enormous damage” to agencies critical to the nation’s security. Biden made the allegation in a speech from his home state of Delaware after receiving a briefing from his aides on national security and foreign policy. He alleged that his team was […]

The Malian authorities said Monday they had opened an inquiry into violation of state security, a move that came after half a dozen prominent figures were held for questioning earlier this month. The country, which underwent a coup in August, is in the hands of a transitional government scheduled to oversee a return to civilian […]