11 MIGRANT BODIES FOUND OFF ATlANTIC COAST
Rabat: The bodies of 11 African migrants were found by the Moroccan Navy on Tuesday after their boat capsised in the Atlantic Ocean, the official MAP news agency said. local officials told MAP that a vessel carrying the migrants overturned around 140 kilometres south of Boujdour in Western Sahara after encountering bad weather.
4 POlICE CONSCRIPTS KIllED IN EGYPT BlAST
Cairo: At least four police conscripts were killed and four others injured on Tuesday after a roadside bomb targeted their armored vehicle in Egypt's restive North Sinai governorate. The bomb was planted near Rafah central hospital and went off when the Army vehicle passed by it. The injured were taken to the hospital, an official said.
AIR FRANCE TO REOPEN TEHRAN ROUTE IN APRIl
Paris: Air France said on Tuesday it is to resume flights from its Paris hub to Tehran, a route suspended in 2008 after Iran was hit with international sanctions over its nuclear ambitions. “Air France is showing its ambition to develop its business in a country with dynamic growth, the European Union being Iran's fourth-biggest economic partner,” the company said in a statement in revealing it would start three flights a week starting in April.
PARIS ATTACK: RUSSIA GIFTS FRANCE PUPPY
Paris/Moscow: Russia has gifted France a new puppy to replace Diesel, the seven-year-old police dog who was killed during a raid linked to the Paris terror attacks. Igor Zubov, a Russian Deputy Interior Minister, handed the male German shepherd puppy named Dobrynya to French ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert at a ceremony at the French Embassy in Moscow on Monday.
20 KIllED, 90,000 FlEE SOMAlIA ClASHES: UN
Mogadishu: At least 20 people were killed, 120 wounded and over 90,000 forced to flee days of rival militia battles in central Somalia, although the situation has now calmed, the UN said on Tuesday. Fighting broke out in the town of Galkayo on November 22 between gunmen loyal to the Puntland and Galmudug districts, with reports of heavy gunfire as well as mortars or artillery.