A suicide bomber attacked a military camp in southern Yemen on Wednesday, killing at least nine soldiers, military and medical sources said, reports AFP. “A man detonated his explosive vest among soldiers” at the camp in the southern city of Aden overseen by the Saudi-led coalition fighting…

Syria’s brutal five-year war has turned increasingly messy, threatening a broader regional conflict as a tangle of internal and external players push their own multi-faceted agendas, reports AFP. Who are the key foreign actors and what are their goals? Russia and Iran are the major backers of…

Veteran Egyptian journalist and intellectual Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, a former aide of ex-president Gamal Abdel Nasser, died on Wednesday aged 92, state media reported. He died after “a struggle with illness,” state television reported, without providing further details, reports AFP. Heikal,…

The World Health Organization on Wednesday released its initial response plan to the Zika virus outbreak, launching a funding appeal for the $56 million (50 million euros) operation, reports AFP. The unprecedented outbreak of the virus, first discovered in Uganda in 1947, has become a global concern,…

A four-year-old boy died on a boat crossing the Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard said Wednesday, as the flow of refugees and migrants increased again after a brief drop in numbers, reports AFP. The body of the boy, identified as Afghan by aid groups, was found in a boat that landed on the island of…

Pope Francis will celebrate an unprecedented mass straddling both sides of the Mexico-US border on Wednesday to address the plight of migrants fleeing misery and crime in their homelands, reports AFP. The 79-year-old pontiff wraps up an intense, five-day trip to Mexico with a visit to Ciudad Juarez,…