In this photo provided by the Miraflores Presidential Palace, President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a event marking the 81st anniversary of the National Guard, in Caracas, Venezuela, Saturday, August 4, 2019. Venezuela's government says several explosions heard at a military event were an ...
TEHRAN, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Iran's Foreign Ministry on Sunday condemned the assassination attempt of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The failed bid was aimed at spreading insecurity and instability in the South American country, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi said. "We ...
Signs of smoke cover the apartment complex where an allegedly armed drone crashed, causing a fire, in Caracas, Venezuela, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro dodged an apparent assassination attempt the previous day when drones armed with explosives detonated while he was ...
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Drones armed with explosives detonated near Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro Saturday in an apparent assassination attempt that took place while he was delivering a speech to hundreds of soldiers being broadcast live on television, officials said. Caught by surprise ...
has said an apparent assassination attempt on him while he delivered a speech on live television was the result of a plot by the "far right". Several drones armed with explosives were flown towards the stage from which the leader was delivering his address, but they blew up before they reached ...
Shortly after apparently dodging a purported assassination attempt, Venezuelan president Mr Maduro was part-way through a speech celebrating the National Guard’s 81st anniversary when drones carrying explosives are said to have detonated, prompting pandemonium. Neat formations of soldiers that ...
TEHRAN – Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Sunday denounced assassination attempt on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. According to the Foreign Ministry website, Qassemi condemned the attempt and described it as a move to create instability and insecurity in Venezuela. He also said ...
have arrested six people suspected of using explosives-laden drones in a failed bid to assassinate , in what one witness described as a terrifying attack that shook her apartment building. The government alleged that opposition factions conspired with assailants in the US and Colombia, although ...
was unharmed after an explosion went off while he was giving a speech in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital. Minutes after the attack, Venezuelan information minister Jorge Rodríguez said in a public address that targeting the president, the Associated Press and Reuters reported. The explosives ...
President Nicolas Maduro offering statements to the press, in Caracas, Venezuela, Aug. 4, 2018. Maduro claimed that the Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, and far-right elements in Venezuela had attempted to assassinate him using a pair of drones flying over a military ceremony. (Photo: ...
Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned as "antisemitic" a decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for war crimes against him and ex-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. He said the ICC was "falsely" ...
for Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has triggered a furious response from leading Israelis across the political spectrum. By contrast it has been welcomed by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and ordinary citizens in Gaza. Leading ...
Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Yoav Gallant (C) and Mohammed Deif (R)/ Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister, as well as the military commander of Hamas. A statement said a pre-trial chamber had rejected ...
At least 22 people were reportedly killed in a strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City/ Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza. Paramedics and Hamas-affiliated media said at least 66 were killed, including women and ...
The US has blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council - the fourth time it has used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, Israel. Fourteen of the 15 Council members voted in favour of the draft, which demanded that the war in Gaza "must end ...
Israel’s military says its offensive in Beit Lahia and other areas of northern Gaza targets regrouping Hamas fighters/ Palestinians are "facing diminishing conditions for survival" in parts of northern Gaza under siege by Israeli forces because virtually no aid has been delivered in 40 days, the ...
based monitoring group posted a video that it said showed the aftermath of the strikes in Palmyria/ At least 36 people have been killed and 50 others injured in Israeli air strikes on residential buildings and an industrial area in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, Syrian state media report. ...
Hanan Abu Salameh, 59, was shot and killed by an Israeli soldier while she harvested olives/ On a Thursday afternoon towards the end of last month, a 59-year-old Palestinian woman set out to gather olives on her family’s land near the village of Faqqua, in the north of the occupied West Bank. It ...
A senior Palestinian official said Khalil al-Hayya (R) was likely to be in Turkey (file photo)/ The most senior Hamas leader outside Gaza and other key figures in its negotiating team are no longer in Doha, Qatar’s government and a senior Palestinian official have said. Qatar’s foreign ministry ...
A video showed the woman sitting in her underwear on steps at Islamic Azad University before walking down a nearby street/ An Iranian woman will not face charges after she stripped to her underwear in an apparent anti-hijab protest at a university in Tehran, Iranian authorities say. Earlier in ...