Wrong Film Named Best Picture At Oscars
Moonlight has won best picture at the Oscars – but only after Faye Dunaway initially said La La Land had won. Warren Beatty was handed the previous winner’s envelope, containing a card saying...
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Wrong Film Named Best Picture At Oscars
Moonlight has won best picture at the Oscars – but only after Faye Dunaway initially announced La La Land had won. Dunaway’s co-presenter Warren Beatty said “Emma Stone, La La Land” had been...
Film On Syria’s White Helmets Wins Oscar
A film about Syria's White Helmets -- rescuers who risk their lives to help save civilians caught in the country's devastating war -- took home the Oscar for best documentary short on Sunday. The...
With Trump At Helm, US Takes Seat At UN Rights Council
The United States will on Monday claim its seat at the UN Human Rights Council under the new presidency of Donald Trump, whose election has provoked deep concern over the body's future. Over its...
Syrian Opposition Accuses Damascus of ‘stalling’ Talks
The main Syrian opposition group at peace talks in Geneva accused Damascus on Sunday of "stalling", after its chief envoy demanded all sides condemn the deadly suicide assault in Homs this weekend....
UN Envoy Sets Out Framework For Sputtering Syria Talks
Several more rounds of Syrian peace talks will be needed to reach any accord, the UN envoy bidding to kickstart the sputtering process has told the rival sides, setting out three key discussion...
In Mosul, A Long-Term Battle To Repair Iraq’s Heritage
The city of Mosul is intertwined with human history, tracing its roots to 4,400 years ago when civilisation rose in fabled, fertile Mesopotamia. Today, as Iraqi forces backed by an international...
Islamic State Planning Attacks In Britain
Islamic State militants are planning "indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians" in Britain on a scale similar to those staged by the Irish Republican Army 40 years ago, the head of the country's...
Refugees Make Up Bulk of Crossings From US To Canada
Most of the hundreds of people streaming over the US border into Canada in recent weeks are asylum-seekers, coming from Syria, Yemen, Turkey or Sudan, according to the United Nations' refugee point...
Israel Army Disperses Lebanese Protesters At Border
Israel's army dispersed dozens of Lebanese demonstrators Saturday after they crossed the border protesting against the alleged installation of spying equipment in their village, the Israeli army and...
Syria’s White Helmets Rescuers Will Not Attend Oscars
Rescue workers from Syria's White Helmets group -- the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary -- will not attend this weekend's Academy Awards ceremony because of intensified regime bombing, their...
Syria Talks Challenged As Suicide Blasts Kill Dozens
UN efforts to launch a new round of Syria peace talks sputtered Saturday as suicide attacks killed dozens of people, raising the death toll from two days of violence to more than 80. The blasts which...
Suicide Attacks On Bases In Syria’s Homs Kill 42
Suicide attacks on two security service bases in the heart of Syria's government-held third city of Homs killed 42 people on Saturday, overshadowing peace talks in Geneva, state television and a...
In Name At Least, ISIL Is Defeated
ISIL is no more. At least, that's the case in the hallways of the Pentagon, where military officials have done an about-face and started calling the Islamic State group ISIS, not ISIL. The latter...
Top US Commander For Mideast In Secret Syria Trip
The top US military commander for the Middle East made a secret trip to northern Syria Friday to meet a US-backed alliance fighting the Islamic State group, the alliance's spokesman said. General...
North Korea Steps Up Sanctions-Busting
North Korea is flouting tougher new UN sanctions with more ingenuous tactics, circumventing trade bans by relying on middlemen and front companies, notably in Malaysia and China, a report by UN...
Ankara Says Nearly 50,000 Syrians Have Returned Home
Tens of thousands of Syrians have returned home from Turkey since the start of Ankara's military operation inside the country, Turkey's foreign minister said Friday. "Nearly 50,000 Syrians have...
Turkey Says Al-Bab Completely Captured From Jihadists
Turkish armed forces and allied Syrian rebels have completely taken the IS bastion of Al-Bab in northern Syria from jihadists, the military said Friday. "As of February 24, 2017, control of all...
Afghan Deportation Flight Left From Germany Half Empty
The German government admitted Friday it deported fewer than half the Afghans who were due to be repatriated on a charter plane earlier this week, after some went into hiding. Fifty Afghans whose...
Saudi Minister In Talks With Iran Team Over Hajj
A Saudi minister held talks with an Iranian delegation about the possibility of Iranian pilgrims rejoining the annual hajj despite ruptured ties between the two countries, state media reported late...