An accident at a platinum mine in South Africa has killed 11 workers and injured 75, the mine’s operator says. Impala Platinum chief executive Nico Muller described it as the “darkest day” in the company’s history. The firm said the accident involved a winding rope...
A call for a weekend march in Paris against anti-Semitism sparked bitter squabbling between political parties Wednesday despite a surge in anti-Semitic incidents in the country. The hard-left France Unbowed (LFI) party said it would boycott the “great civic march”...
Hundreds of mourners paid their respects in Beirut, on Wednesday, to two reporters working for pan-Arab station, Al Mayadeen, who were killed the previous day in an Israeli air strike on south Lebanon, Reuters reports. The crowds gathered around the two coffins of...
Spain’s acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez looked set to clinch another term in office after his Socialist Party (PSOE) on Thursday secured the backing of the Catalan separatist party Junts to form a government in a deal the country’s opposition condemned as “a...
The Iraqi government has condemned US air strikes south of Baghdad that killed eight members of Iran-aligned armed group Kataib Hezbollah, Reuters has reported. The government said that the strikes were a “dangerous escalation” not coordinated with the authorities in the capital...
