Libya’s Tripoli Mitiga airport resumes air traffic following air strike
Air traffic at the Libyan capital’s only functioning airport resumed on Wednesday after being halted earlier following an air strike, according to a post on the Mitiga airport authority’s Facebook page.
North Korea says U.S. ‘hell-bent on hostile acts’ despite wanting to talk
North Korea’s mission to the United Nations accused the United States on Wednesday of being “more and more hell-bent on hostile acts” against Pyongyang, despite President Donald Trump wanting talks between the two countries.
Iran to boost uranium enrichment level in new challenge for nuclear pact
Iran said on Wednesday it will soon boost uranium enrichment beyond the level set in the landmark 2015 nuclear deal it struck with world powers, in an announcement that is likely to further enflame tensions with the United States.
Algerian interim leader says dialogue and elections only democratic solutions
Algeria needs a national dialogue to lay the groundwork for presidential elections to end a political crisis, interim President Abdelkader Bensalah said on Wednesday as mass protests calling for political reforms continued.
Democrats blast Trump’s migrant detention centers as inhumane
Democrats sharpened their attacks on Republican President Donald Trump’shandling of the migrant crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border on Wednesday, charging that immigrants held there were being denied basic human rights and urging the Border Patrol’s leade…
Blast kills three in Syria’s Sweida: governor
A rigged motorcycle exploded in Syria’s Sweida city, which the government controls, killing three people and injuring seven others on Wednesday night, an official there said.
Trump ‘very fond’ of Palestine’s Abbas, willing to engage on peace plan: Kushner
White House senior adviser Jared Kushner said on Wednesday that U.S. President Donald Trump is fond of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and willing to engage with him, but Abbas was cool to the gesture.
U.S. border patrol under fire as criticism of detention centers rises
The acting head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ordered an investigation into reports that Border Patrol agents have been posting offensive anti-immigrant comments and threats against lawmakers on a private Facebook group.
Eastern Libyan forces attack drone control room at Tripoli base
Eastern Libyan forces destroyed on Wednesday the main control room for drones at Mitiga airbase in the capital, a spokesman said.
Four killed, several wounded in Syria motorcycle bomb attack
Four people were killed and several were wounded on Wednesday when a bomb-laden motorcycle exploded in a street in the southwestern Syrian province of Sweida, Syria’s state TV said.
