AFP, RIYADH: The Saudi Arabian cabinet on Monday condemned Israeli settlement-building in the occupied West Bank, as the Jewish state prepared to vote on legalising wildcat communities. Approval of the new construction on Palestinian land is “aimed at Judaisation of large parts of East Jerusalem”,…

AFP, AVDIIVKA, Ukraine: A surge in clashes between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels despite a supposed truce left at six people dead on Monday in Ukraine’s war-scarred east. The overall death toll for the past two days rose to 11 after the bloodiest outburst of violence since Ukraine…

AFP, YANGON: Thousands of mourners gathered on Monday to bury a top Muslim lawyer and adviser to Aung San Suu Kyi who was gunned down outside Yangon airport in what the ruling party said was a political assassination.Ko Ni, a legal adviser to the National League for Democracy, was shot in the head on…

AFP, PARIS: France’s newly-minted Socialist candidate Benoit Hamon has issued a call for the divided left to unite for the presidential election,…

AFP, PARIS: Mohamed Abrini, the “man in the hat” bombing suspect caught on camera during the Brussels airport attack, has been charged in France over the November 2015 jihadist massacres in Paris, his lawyers said Monday.Belgium handed Abrini over to the French authorities on Monday for…

AFP, DUBAI: Clashes erupted between police and protesters in Bahrain before a hearing in the trial of a leading Shiite cleric accused of illegal collection of funds and money laundering, witnesses said Monday. Security forces in the Sunni-ruled Gulf island state fired tear gas and buckshot at hundreds…

AFP, MUNICH, Germany: The former secretary of Nazi Germany’s propaganda boss Joseph Goebbels died aged 106 last week, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the maker of a documentary about her said Monday.Brunhilde Pomsel died on January 27 in a care home in the southern city of Munich,…