South Sudan VP warns of conflict spillover threat from Sudan

BAGHDAD: Iraq is using a period of relative stability to assert more control over the autonomous Kurdistan region that has long had fraught relations with federal authorities, analysts and politicians say. Long-simmering disputes between Baghdad and Irbil, the capital of the northern region, came to a head recently after several Supreme Court rulings that the … Read more

Ukraine’s Zelensky warns of dwindling air defense missiles

LONDON: The Palestinian-British surgeon Dr. Ghassan Abu Sitta has been elected rector of the University of Glasgow, winning an overwhelming 80 percent of the vote following a campaign that resonated deeply with students. In early October, at the start of Israel’s military assault on Gaza, Abu Sitta spent 43 days treating patients at Al-Ahli and … Read more

Iraq tightens grip on autonomous Kurdish region

MOSUL: With chants and ululations, Iraqi Christians celebrated the inauguration of a recently restored Chaldean Catholic Church in Mosul, years after extremists turned it into a religious police office.Around 300 faithful attended the first mass in the 80-year-old church of Um Al-Mauna — “Our Lady of Perpetual Help” after it was fully renovated.They prayed and … Read more