Category: News

Lionel Messi’s shock impending departure from his only club Barcelona was the talk of Spanish media Friday as they pored over the dramatic news.

FC Barcelona President Joan Laporta said on Friday the club had no choice but to part ways with Lionel Messi, who has been at Camp Nou for all of his … Read More

The UN peacekeeping force patrolling the Lebanon-Israel border warned of a “very dangerous situation” after Hezbollah and the Israeli army traded fire on Friday.

Israel said it was ready for an escalation on the Lebanese border after an exchange of fire with Hezbollah but played down the prospects of all-out war.

Beach volleyball players roasted on the sands of Tokyo Bay and Olympic race walkers broiled in Japan’s supposedly cooler north Friday, while organizers removed two Belarusian officials after sprinter Krystsina … Read More

Taliban fighters on Friday assassinated the Afghanistan government’s top media and information officer in the capital Kabul, the hardline militant group said.

Britain will offer sanctuary to Afghan media workers who operated with UK outlets and now face deadly threats from the Taliban, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said on Friday.

Thousands of people fled their homes on the outskirts of Athens Friday and hundreds were evacuated by boat from the nearby island of Evia as Greece faced a fourth day … Read More

Salima Mazari sits nonchalantly in the front seat of a pickup as it cruises through a rural district of northern Afghanistan; a popular local song belts out from a loudspeaker … Read More

Tunisia’s interior ministry has put under house arrest a senior official of the moderate Islamist Ennahda party which opposes the president’s seizure of governing powers, one of his colleagues said … Read More