Syria’s Finance Ministry  ordered on Tuesday the seizure of Al Kharafi family’s assets in Syria, a source told Lebanese daily Annahar. The source did not provide any details on the decision which targets one of Kuwait’s wealthiest families. The decision comes a day after Kuwaiti authorities arrested Mazen Al-Tarazi, a prominent Syrian businessman with close ties to […]

President Donald Trump said on Thursday that it’s time for the United States to recognize Israel’s sovereignty over the disputed Golan Heights. The administration has been considering recognizing Israel‘s sovereignty over the Golan, which Israel captured from Syria in 1967. Last week, in its annual human rights report, the State Department dropped the phrase “Israeli-occupied” […]

Brazil’s ex-President Michel Temer was arrested Thursday in an investigation of alleged graft in the construction of nuclear plant Angra 3, prosecutors told Reuters, rattling the political class and threatening to delay a major pension reform. Temer was president from 2016 to 2018, taking office following the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, for whom he served […]

people were killed in a terror attack targeting two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand during Friday prayers last week. FRANCE 24 takes a look at some of the victims identified so far. Police said that 42 people were killed at Christchurch’s central Al Noor Mosque, and seven at the Linwood Mosque, after a gunman identified […]

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Monday again defied mass protests calling for his immediate resignation, insisting on a plan to elect a successor only after a national conference and new constitution is approved. Bouteflika, 82, last week bowed to demonstrators who say he is unfit to run Algeria by announcing he had reversed a decision […]