Reuters (UK)
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 - 11:04
A Sierra Leone military court has charged 13 soldiers and a captain with mutiny and denied them bail, a judge said on Monday, eight months after they were arrested for planning a protest against the president.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 08:00
Six children have been killed and at least seven people are missing and presumed dead as a result of a mudslide in south Tajikistan, an emergency ministry spokesman told Reuters on Sunday.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:45
Unidentified gunmen in Yemen shot dead a Saudi Arabian border guard and wounded another in the early hours of Monday morning, Saudi news websites reported, in what would be the second such incident in five days.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:37
Saudi Arabian police have arrested six people and seized illegal drugs worth 1 billion riyals ($267 million, Dh981 million) that were being smuggled into the country from neighbouring Bahrain, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 07:32
A Saudi Arabian court has jailed 13 men, handing down sentences from one to 10 years, for aiding and financing conflicts abroad, conspiring inside Saudi Arabia and harbouring wanted suspects, state news agency SPA reports.
Monday, April 14, 2014 - 06:49
Two members of banned group shot in exchange of gunfire with security forces in New Delta, interior ministry says.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 08:43
The deal will see an unspecified number of Palestinian prisoners released from Israel jails and a freeze on settlement construction in the West Bank.
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 07:40
Iraqi troops have since been surrounding Fallujah and shelling the city in an effort to dislodge anti-government tribes and insurgent factions including the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (Isil).
Friday, April 11, 2014 - 07:13
The fate of the heavy-water plant, which has not yet been completed, is one of the central issues in negotiations between Iran and six major powers aimed at reaching a long-term deal on Tehran's nuclear programme by an agreed July 20 deadline.
Thursday, April 10, 2014 - 11:42
Around 12,000 preachers not approved by the state had been removed from service, the statement added, without giving a timeframe. Last September, the minister of religious endowments said he aimed to bar 55,000 unlicensed clerics.