More than three million people face hunger in Burkina Faso, a drought-stricken West African country plagued by jihadist violence, United Nations agencies said Friday. The number of people facing food insecurity has risen by more than 50 percent since March as the coronavirus epidemic has exacerbated other crises in the country, the World Food Programme […]

U.S. President Donald Trump has claimed he turned Jerusalem into the capital of Israel, even as the Jewish state has long said the city is the seat of its government. Trump, speaking Friday to supporters, also declared that his decision to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem was most appreciated by US […]

The parents, uncle and aunt of a teenager of Bosnian Muslim origin will face trial in France on charges of violence against a minor for shaving her head over her relationship with a Christian Serbian boy, prosecutors said Friday. The girl had her hair shaven off and was also beaten in the eastern city of […]

A Lebanese judge leading investigations into Beirut’s port blast issued two new arrest warrants on Friday, a judicial source told AFP. “The investigating judge, Fadi Sawan, continued his investigations… and today issued two arrest warrants,” the source said. According to the official National News Agency, the subjects of the warrants are Beirut’s customs authority director, […]

Malian opposition leader Soumaila Cisse, who was kidnapped in March in a jihadist-ridden area ahead of key elections, has sent letters to his family, in their first contact since the abduction, the Red Cross said on Friday. “The ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) has handed letters from Mr Soumaila Cisse to a member […]