Aug 29 (Reuters) - The Kuwaiti Embassy in Iraq urged its citizens in Iraq to leave the country, Kuwait's state news agency (KUNA) reported late on Monday.
The embassy asked those wishing to travel to Iraq to postpone their plans, following the eruption of clashes between rival Shi'ite groups.
Aug 29 (Reuters) - Powerful Iraqi Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr is said to have announced a hunger strike until the violence and use of weapons stops, Iraq's state news agency INA and state TV reported late on Monday.
There was no immediate confirmation from Sadr's office.
At least 10 Iraqis were killed on Monday after powerful Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr said he would quit politics, prompting his loyalists to storm a palatial government complex in Baghdad and leading to clashes with rival Shi'ite groups.
ADEN, Yemen, Aug. 29 (Xinhua) -- The Houthi rebel militia killed seven members of Yemen's government forces and injured another eight in the country's southwestern province of Taiz on Monday, a military source told Xinhua.
"The Houthi rebels launched an attack against a government-controlled area in Taiz, sparking intense armed confrontations that continued for hours," the source said on condition of anonymity.
TUNIS, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Tunisia foiled 51 illegal immigration attempts to cross the Mediterranean to the Italian coast, National Guard Spokesman Houcemeddine Jbabli said on Sunday.
Tunisia's Maritime Guard thwarted these illegal immigration attempts late Saturday and early Sunday off the country's southern, central-eastern and northern coasts, Jbabli said in a statement.
The Maritime Guard also rescued 723 illegal immigrants, including 346 from African countries, the spokesman added.
TUBAS, West Bank (AP) — At least 85 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank this year as Israeli forces have carried out nightly raids in cities, towns and villages, making it the deadliest in the occupied territory since 2016.
The military says the vast majority were militants or stone-throwers who endangered the soldiers. The tally, from the Palestinian Health Ministry, includes Palestinians who carried out deadly attacks inside Israel.
BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese submarine ended its mission after locating a boat carrying migrants that sank earlier this year in the Mediterranean Sea, but bigger equipment is needed to pull it out, a legislator said Monday.
The comments by legislator Ashraf Rifi came days after the submarine found the remains of at least 10 migrants who drowned when their boat sank in April off the coast of northern Lebanon with about 30 people on board.
BAGHDAD (AP) — An influential Shiite cleric announced Monday he would resign from Iraqi politics, prompting hundreds of his angry followers to storm the government palace and sparking clashes with security forces in which at least five protesters were killed.
Protesters loyal to cleric Muqtada al-Sadr pulled down the cement barriers outside the government palace with ropes and breached the palace gates. Many rushed into the lavish salons and marbled halls of the palace, a key meeting place for Iraqi heads of state and foreign dignitaries.
29 August 2022; AA: Germany on Monday proposed creating a new joint air defense system in Europe against growing threats from adversaries.
Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Germany has decided to boost its air defense capabilities, and wants to work with its EU partners to develop a broader system.
“In Europe, we have a serious backlog in terms of air defense, against threats from air and space,” he said, in a keynote speech at the Charles University in Prague.
29 August 2022; AA: Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi said Monday the country's nuclear program has become indigenous and arch-foe Israel has been unable to prevent its progress through sabotage, assassinations, and threats.
Raisi was addressing a news conference in Tehran, attended by local and foreign media, and coinciding with the first anniversary of his government that took over in August last year.
29 August 2022; AA: A mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will visit the embattled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine this week, the agency's head said Monday.
"The day has come, @IAEAorg's Support and Assistance Mission to Zaporizhzhya (ISAMZ) is now on its way. We must protect the safety and security of Ukraine’s and Europe’s biggest nuclear facility," Rafael Mariano Grossi said on Twitter.
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