Category: 2. Middle East

LONDON (Reuters) -Four pro-Palestinian activists will stand trial in 2027 charged with breaking into a British military air base and damaging two planes in protest against Britain’s support for Israel.

The four are accused of breaking into a Royal Air Force base in Oxfordshire in central England on June 20 and spraying red paint over two Voyager aircraft used for refuelling and transport. Campaign group Palestine Action said it was behind the incident.

Lewie Chiaramello, 22, Jony Cink, 24, Amy…

LONDON (Reuters) -Egyptian real estate tycoon Hisham Talaat Moustafa on Friday won his bid to throw out a London lawsuit brought against him by a former kickboxing world champion for ordering the murder of a Lebanese pop star in 2008.

Talaat Moustafa, CEO of Talaat Moustafa Group, was convicted in Egypt of paying a former police officer to stab Suzanne Tamim, 30, to death at her luxury apartment in Dubai.

He was initially sentenced to death in 2009, before his conviction was overturned on…

By Stephanie van den Berg

THE HAGUE (Reuters) -German authorities have arrested a Libyan war crimes suspect accused of being a senior official at a notorious prison where inmates were routinely tortured and sometimes sexually abused, the International Criminal Court said on Friday.

Khaled Mohamed Ali Al Hishri, alleged to have been a member of the Special Deterrence Force armed group during Libya’s civil war, was arrested on Wednesday, German authorities said.

The ICC said he would remain in…

(Reuters) -Congo and the M23 rebel group have agreed to a declaration of principles to end fighting in eastern Congo, a sign of progress after months of talks mediated by Qatar, though key details still need to be negotiated, four sources said on Friday.

(Reporting by Sonia Rolley and Stanis Bujakera;Writing by Robbie Corey-Boulet; Editing by Chris Reese)

Hundreds of Argentines gathered Friday to commemorate the 1994 bombing of a Jewish cultural center that killed dozens, demanding justice for a crime for which there has not yet been a trial.

In the worst such attack in Argentina’s history, a car bomb on July 18, 1994, killed 85 people and injured more than 300 at the seven-story Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires.

Two years earlier, an explosion at the Israeli embassy killed 29 and wounded 200.

“Impunity…

In the last barely-functional hospital in Sweida, bodies are overflowing from the morgue, staff said, amid violence that has wracked the Druze-majority southern Syrian city for nearly a week.

“It’s not a hospital anymore, it’s a mass grave,” said Rouba, a member of the medical staff at the city’s sole government hospital, weeping as she appealed for aid.

Dr Omar Obeid, who heads the Sweida division at Syria’s Order of Physicians, said the facility has received “more than 400 bodies since…

“God wants our job to be simply clearing the land,” an Israeli bulldozer operator told Haaretz in a recent interview, a remark seen as encapsulating the ideological zeal driving the scale of unprecedented destruction now unfolding in the besieged Gaza Strip.

According to new satellite analysis by the Hebrew University’s Geographic Information System (GIS) Centre, nearly 70 per cent of buildings across Gaza have been levelled or severely damaged, surpassing…

Prominent Tunisian human rights activist Kamel Jendoubi has criticized the harsh prison sentences issued last week against opponents including leader of Tunisia’s Nahda party, Rached Ghannouchi, accusing them of committing “slow- motion assassination” against the 84-year-old man suffering from Parkinson’s disease. 

On 8 July, Tunis’s primary court issued new prison sentences in the so-called “Conspiracy Case 2”, with rulings ranging between 12 and…