Tripoli / AFP Libyan coastguards said they detained 550 people trying to reach Europe illegally by boat on Tuesday, the second time in three days they have intercepted migrants in the same area. “Coastguards in the west who were patrolling off the Zawiya refinery on Tuesday intercepted four large inflatables carrying around 550 illegal migrants,” navy spokesman Colonel Ayoub ...

  Sanaa / AFP A bomb hit a university campus in the rebel-held Yemeni capital Sanaa killing two people at an event commemorating the country’s 1990 unification, a security official said. Several people were also seriously wounded, the official said, adding that death toll was likely to rise. The event was organised by the Houthi Shiite rebels who have controlled ...

  Beirut / AFP Washington and Moscow scrambled to salvage Syria’s shaky ceasefire on Tuesday as the country reeled from extremist bombings that killed more than 160 people in President Bashar Al Assad’s coastal heartland. A regime offensive outside the capital has severely strained an already fragile nationwide ceasefire between the regime and non-jihadist rebels intended to pave the way ...