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Akbar Al Baker says request for more flights into Australia was ‘legitimate’ at a time the airline was ‘so supportive of Australia’Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news p…
Journalists who reported on last week’s catastrophic storm say the country’s bloody political tussle has contributed to the collapse of servicesEarly last week, Mohamed Eljabo travelled to the eastern provinces of Libya, passing through Derna, Al Bayda…
Free speech advocate Hisham Kassem sentenced for defaming former minister Kamal Abu EitaA court in Cairo has sentenced a former newspaper publisher, free speech advocate and rights activist to six months in prison in a trial observers say constitutes a…
Charity that runs boarding houses to help girls in remote Atlas mountains get to school scrambles to find out what facilities remainWhen a powerful earthquake struck deep below Morocco’s Atlas mountains last Friday night, the school year had only just …
WHO says aid to help 250,000 people has arrived in Benghazi as death toll estimated at more than 11,000International aid is arriving in Libya from the UN, Europe and Middle Eastern countries, offering some relief to thousands after flooding submerged t…
Iranian security forces briefly hold Amjad Amini amid crackdown on commemorative protestsThe father of Mahsa Amini was temporarily detained by Iranian security forces on the anniversary of her death in an attempt to stop people gathering at her grave a…
Multiple rounds of sanctions mark anniversary of 22-year-old’s death in custody of Iran’s ‘morality police’The US and Britain on Friday imposed sanctions on Iran on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the death of a Kurdish Iranian woman, Mahsa Amin…
The annual pilgrimage brings both prayers and partying to Uman. Many have been undeterred by official pleas to stay away this yearUnfazed by the bombs, undeterred by the warnings, and in the face of the raging conflict, more than 35,000 ultra-Orthodox …
Only emergency workers to be allowed into devastated area over fears of contamination from dead bodies in limited water supplyLibyan authorities have largely sealed off the flood-devastated port town of Derna from civilians in an effort to give space t…
Maryam al-Khawaja fears her father, the political prisoner Abdulhadi al-Khawajar, will die soon after being denied medical treatmentA leading Bahraini human rights defender and the heads of two global rights groups have been prevented from boarding a f…