Clashes kill nine at libya’s int’l airport
Tripoli: Fighting at the libyan capital’s only working international airport killed nine people on Monday, officials said, after militiamen attacked it in an attempt to free colleagues held at a jail there.
Qatar fighter jets intercept flight: uae
Dubai: The United Arab Emirates on Monday claimed that Qatari fighter jets intercepted one of its commercial airliners in international airspace on the way to Bahrain, an allegation promptly denied by a Doha official.
Sri lanka police destroy cocaine
Colombo: Sri lankan authorities on Monday publicly destroyed more than 900 kilogrammes of cocaine that was the country’s largest single seizure of the illegal drug.
two Koreas discuss art troupe’s visit
Seoul: Officials from the two Koreas met on Monday to work out details about North Korea’s plan to send an art troupe to the
South during next month’s Winter Olympics, as the rivals tried to follow up on the North’s recent agreement to cooperate in the Games in a conciliatory gesture following months of nuclear tensions.