Emergency medical aid provided by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is seen being unloaded at the international airport in Sanaa earlier this month (AFP Photo/Mohammed Huwais)/ Tehran (AFP) - An Iranian Red Crescent plane carrying 20 tonnes of food for war-torn Yemen was ...
United Nations officials in the Horn of Africa port of Djibouti (pictured) said Saturday they had taken charge of the aid cargo carried by an Iranian boat headed for war-torn Yemen (AFP Photo/Carl de Souza)/ Addis Ababa (AFP) - United Nations officials in the Horn of Africa port of Djibouti said ...
In this Tuesday, May 19, 2015 photo, Ibrahim Mohamed, 80, and the oldest refugee at the center, who is both blind and deaf, adjusts his hat, at an orphanage that has been turned into a center for Yemeni refugees, in Obock, northern Djibouti. Fleeing the war at home, thousands of Yemenis have ...
May 22 The World Food Programme will deliver a cargo of Iranian aid for Yemen once the ship carrying it reaches Djibouti's port, the U.N agency said on Friday. Earlier this week Tehran agreed to an international inspection of the vessel, the Iran Shahed, ending a potential showdown with ...
An Iranian aid ship docked on Friday in Djibouti, where its cargo will be inspected by the United Nations before being moved to conflict-torn Yemen, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported. "The ship docked a few minutes ago in Djibouti," Fars said. "The ship entered Djibouti waters ...
Over the past week, Saudi Arabian and US warships have closely tracked the Iran Shahed, a 3,000-tonne Iranian cargo vessel, as it steamed towards Yemen, escorted by two Revolutionary Guard destroyers, in a maritime standoff that underscores the Riyadh fears the Shahed is laden with arms to ...
An Iranian aid ship on Friday docked at Djibouti's port where it will be inspected by the United Nations so its cargo can be shipped to conflict-torn Yemen, Iran's Fars news agency reported. "The ship docked a few minutes ago in Djibouti," Fars reported. "The ship entered Djibouti waters ...
A trickle of aid, medicine and commercial food cargoes is reaching Yemen yet the process remains slow as more ships await clearance to discharge at ports and logistical chains buckle due to fuel shortages and war. Before Saudi Arabia launched air strikes in Yemen in March, the Arabian ...
An Iranian aid ship has reached the outskirts of Djibouti's port and is waiting for a permit to enter after Tehran agreed to an international inspection of the vessel with goods for Yemen, an activist on board said on Thursday. The Iran Shahed vessel, carrying 2,500 tonnes of food and medical ...
The Iranian ship Nejat (Rescue) sets off at the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbas to deliver humanitarian aid to war-torn Yemen, May 11, 2015./ An Iranian ship carrying humanitarian aid for war-ravaged Yemenis Iran’s Ambassador to Djibouti and Ethiopia Ali Bahraini welcomed the people ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will address US lawmakers in Washington DC on 24 July, congressional leaders announced on Thursday. He will speak to both chambers of Congress - the Senate and the House of Representatives - as the Israel-Gaza war continues. Republicans and Democrats ...
The US has told Israel it must be fully "transparent" over an air strike that reportedly killed at least 35 people at a central Gaza school packed with displaced people on Thursday morning. Local journalists told the BBC that a warplane fired two missiles at classrooms on the top floor of the ...
The average rate on a 30-year loan declined to 6.99% this week, according to Freddie Mac./ The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 6.99% from 7.03% a week prior, Rate drops, even marginal ones, are generally welcomed by homebuyers sensitive to rates, yet buying activity has stayed ...
Israeli missiles hit classrooms on upper floors of the building in the overnight strike/ In a classroom-turned-bedroom at a UN school in Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, Palestinian children clamber through rubble and blood-stained mattresses. Just hours earlier, at least 35 people were ...
West of Maryland, was arrested in the 7200 block of Fairchild Drive in Groveton. Police say he was served a warrant for violation of conditions of release and charged with resisting arrest./ The former point guard played for Eleanor Roosevelt High School in , Maryland before starring at St. ...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test (CFT) on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, is launched, Cape Canaveral/ (Reuters) -Boeing's new Starliner capsule and its inaugural two-member NASA crew neared final approach to the ...
The strike took place on the Nuseirat refugee camp, seen here on Monday/ An Israeli air strike on a UN school packed with hundreds of displaced people in central Gaza has killed more than 20 people, local residents say. The Israeli military said it carried out a strike on a UN school that housed ...
Crowds gathered outside the Damascus Gate before marching through the Muslim Quarter/ Tens of thousands of Israelis, many from nationalist groups, have taken part in the annual Jerusalem Day flag march to mark the capture of the east of the city in the 1967 war. Crowds waving Israeli flags and ...
warned Wednesday that Russia could provide long-range weapons to others to strike Western targets in response to NATO allies allowing Ukraine to use their arms to attack Russian territory. Putin also reaffirmed Moscow’s readiness to use nuclear weapons if it sees a threat to its sovereignty. The ...
Dean Sweetland is one of a dozen residents tackling recent bushfires around Kibbutz Malkiya/ Three rusty water-trucks stand at the edge of Kibbutz Malkiya, on Israel’s border with Lebanon; little bigger than a family car, they look like something out of an old cartoon. A collection of industrial ...