MANILA: More than 200 people have been killed and scores were missing in the southern Philippines Sunday after a tropical storm triggered severe flooding and landslides that also wrecked Christmas for tens of thousands of survivors, reports AFP. Tropical Storm Tembin lashed Mindanao island, home to…

JUBA: South Sudan’s government and main rebel group yesterday accused each other of breaking a ceasefire that went into effect shortly after midnight, reports AFP. The ceasefire is the latest bid to end a devastating four-year war which broke out after a falling out between former vice president…

WASHINGTON: A US federal judge on Saturday lifted Trump administration restrictions that barred some refugees from the country, the latest in a series of immigration-related legal setbacks for the president, reports AFP. The United States said in October that it would resume accepting refugees after…

Caracas: Venezuela has expelled the Brazilian ambassador to Caracas, Ruy Pereira, and Canadian charge d’affaires Craib Kowalik, reports BBC. The move was announced by the head of Venezuela’s powerful Constituent Assembly, Delcy Rodriguez. Ms Rodriguez accused Brazil of violating the rule…

WARSAW: Poland’s entry into the European Union in 2004 was a dream come true just 15 years after it shed communism, but today its rightwing government…

Ramallah: Israeli forces have indefinitely closed down the northern entrance to the occupied West Bank twin cities of Ramallah and al-Bireh, reports AL Jazeera. On Saturday night, amid ongoing protests over US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital,…

Pennsylvania: The Department of Homeland Security is calling a series of shootings targeting law enforcement in Pennsylvania a "terror attack",…

(1) Archbishop Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Apostolic Administrator of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, leads a mass in Saint Catherine's Church where…