Italy’s Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who is vowing a new hardline stance on migration, on Monday used his first foreign visit to Libya to demand an asylum reception centre in the North African nation to cut the flow of migrants into Europe. Salvini called for migrant centres to be set up in Africa as Rome […]
Fighters of the terror group Isis have captured the city of Ramadi which represents the biggest victory for the terror group in Iraq since government forces and Shiite paramilitary groups began pushing them back last year. Isis already controls large parts of Iraq and Syria in a self-proclaimed caliphate. The fall of Ramadi, the capital […]
The 2020 International Prize for Arabic Fiction (IPAF) has gone to Algerian author Abdelouahab Aissaoui for his book ‘Spartan Court’. The Djelfa-born author was announced winner of the IPAF Tuesday in Abu Dhabi by the organizers who streamlined the ceremony due to movement restriction imposed by the UAE because of the novel coronavirus. Aissaoui receives […]
