Tag: Rebellions and uprisings
UN says 11 Europe-bound migrants drown off Libya
CAIRO — At least 11 people drowned Sunday when a rubber dinghy carrying two dozen Europe-bound migrants capsized off Libya, the U.N. migration agency...
UN focuses on demand to repatriate foreign fighters in Libya
UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council held an informal meeting Thursday focusing on the repatriation of more than 20,000 foreign fighters and mercenaries...
Chadian rebels claim they have shot down military helicopter
N'DJAMENA, Chad — Rebels seeking to overthrow Chad's new transitional government claimed Thursday to have shot down a military helicopter, while the junta in...
N Ireland leader faces party revolt over Brexit fallout
LONDON — The leader of Northern Ireland was fighting Wednesday to keep her job as members of her party tried to oust her over...
France’s Total halts its gas project in northern Mozambique
JOHANNESBURG — The French energy firm Total announced Monday that it has halted all operations on its $20 billion investment in a liquified natural...
Mexico’s Zapatistas to visit Spain 500 years after conquest
ALTAMIRANO, Mexico — The Indigenous rebels of the Zapatista movement said Monday that they are planning to send a delegation by canoes on a...
How UEFA president Ceferin crushed a Super League rebellion
LONDON — A moment that prepared Aleksander Ceferin for the stresses and tensions running European football came three decades ago, in a far graver...
Climate activists shatter windows at HSBC London building
LONDON — Climate change activists have vandalized HSBC’s London headquarters, smashing windows in a protest against the bank’s alleged links to the fossil fuel...
Chad rebels threaten to depose slain president’s son
N'DJAMENA, Chad — Rebels in Chad threatened to depose the son of the country's slain president after he was named interim leader of the...
40,000 displaced in north Mozambique after assault on Palma
JOHANNESBURG — Some 40,000 displaced and urgently needing food, work suspended on a multi-billion-dollar gas investment, and scores of dead still being counted.
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