TRIPOLI: Forces loyal to Libya's unity government said Saturday that 52 of its fighters were killed as they repelled rival militias in fierce clashes in the capital Tripoli, reports AFP.Apart from sporadic gunfire in southern Tripoli, calm returned to the city on Saturday, the first day of the Muslim…

London: Computer problems are causing delays for British Airways passengers worldwide, the airline has said, reports BBC. The carrier apologised for the "global system outage" and said it was "working to resolve the the problem as quickly as possible". Heathrow Airport said it was…

CAIRO: The Islamic State group on Saturday claimed responsibility for shooting dead 29 Christians on a bus in central Egypt, an attack that prompted retaliatory air strikes on jihadists in neighbouring Libya, reports AFP. The shooting in the province of Minya on Friday, as the Coptic Christians were…

MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte came under fire Saturday for making a second joke about rape, with Chelsea Clinton leading online outrage and a rights group branding his sense of humour "sickening", reports AFP.In a speech at a military camp on Friday aimed at lifting troops'…

RAMALLAH: Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails on hunger strike since April 17 have ended their mass protest under a deal brokered by the Red Cross, Palestinian and Israeli sources said on Saturday, reports AFP.Some 30 of the more than 800 hunger strikers had been hospitalised in recent…

Yemen: Nasrine's husband was once a happy, optimistic man. He made good money from a restaurant and butcher shop he owned. "With his hands, he could turn dust into gold," Nasrine says, reports AP. Then Yemen's civil war escalated, and as the country collapsed, so did he. He lost his…

 MARAWI: Philippine security forces dropped more bombs Saturday on a southern city where they have been battling Islamist militants for five days,…