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Huge amphitheatre for gladiator fights dubbed Turkeys Colosseum unearthed in remote fig orchard The site dates to around 200AD when the Roman Empire was ruled by the Severan dynasty The amphitheatre was partly buried and hidden by groves of olive and fig trees A Roman amphitheatre which would have hosted gladiator contests has been discovered in Turkey after lying hidden for centuries. The huge site, similar in structure to the Colosseum in Rome, remained undetected because it is mostly buried ...

× The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off on a mission carrying Starlink satellites, late Wednesday, April 28, 2021, from Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, in Florida. (Malcolm Denemark/Florida Today via AP) 1/4 TOPSHOT - Health workers arrive to inoculate elderly citizens with doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against COVID-19, at their house at El Agustino district in Lima, on April 28, 2021. (Photo by ERNESTO BENAVIDES / AFP) 2/4 A Syrian vendor sells traditional sweets dur...

Thursday 29/04/2021 Libya’s interim Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah receives his Egyptian counterpart Mostafa Madbouly in the capital Tripoli on April 20, 2021. (AFP) There are many who want a new war in Libya. Among them there those who do not want the elections to be held as scheduled on December 24. There are also those who are looking for justifications to keep the Turkish forces and mercenaries in the country, and those who reject, not only the presence of Field Marshal Haftar as the ...

Challenges ahead for France in navigating Chads post-Deby transition France24 29 Apr 2021, 05:37 GMT+10 France called Tuesday for the creation of a civilian national unity government in Chad, an apparent shift in stance and a sign of the delicate balancing act Paris must perform as it seeks to ensure stability in the region following the death of veteran strongman Idriss Deby last week. Chad has been a key French ally in the fight against jihadists in Africas troubled Sahel region. Soon after t...

ROME: Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Luigi Di Maio said on Wednesday that Italian firms “may” help rebuild Benghazi airport, and confirmed that Italy’s project to extend a coastal motorway from Libya’s border with Tunisia to its one with Egypt would begin “in a few months.” During questions at the Italian Chamber of Deputies, Di Maio also said that a visit to Rome by Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Mohammed Dabaiba is in the pipeline, during which Dabaiba would meet with a fo...

Challenges ahead for France in navigating Chad’s post-Deby transition Issued on: 28/04/2021 - 20:42 French President Emmanuel Macron and Foreign Affairs Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian attend the state funeral for late Chadian president Idriss Déby in NDjamena, on April 23, 2021. © Christophe Petit Tesson, AFP 9 min France called Tuesday for the creation of a civilian national unity government in Chad, an apparent shift in stance ...

Can Libyas Dbeibeh End Years of Division Between East and West? Published April 28th, 2021 - 06:03 GMT Libya’s Prime Minister-designate Abdulhamid Dheibeh speaks during a press conference in the capital Tripoli, on February 25, 2021. (AFP) Highlights It is not entirely clear why an advance party for Libya’s premier was sent packing from Benghazi’s Benina airport but it scuppered his trip, for now at least. The decision of Libyan Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh to postpone a visit ...

Washington’s role and responsibility in Chad Swearing-in ceremony of President Idriss Déby Itno of Chad in August 2016. (Flickr/Paul Kagame) The surprise death last week in Chad of long-time strongman Idriss Déby casts the country and the wider region into a period of deep uncertainty. While perhaps of little thought to most Americans, Chad, three times the size of the state of California, sits at the crossroads of most major conflicts in Africa where the United States currently has a secur...

A Libyan cabinet meeting in the city of Benghazi was postponed after gunmen loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar prevented a government delegation from entering the city. Armed men and civilians loyal to Haftar stopped the security detail of Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh after their plane landed at Benina Airport on Sunday, sources told Al Jazeera. The delegation – which was forced to fly back to the capital Tripoli – was planning to prepare for the first visit to Bengha...

‘War weary’ Libya reflects 10 years on from Gaddafi and Arab spring Peter Beaumont © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Nada Harib/Getty Images The last days of Libya’s Colonel Muammar Gaddafi 10 years ago conjure up competing images of defiance, defeat and death. In March 2011, in one of his last public appearances and with rebellion against his regime gathering around him, the soon-to-be-deposed leader arrived at the People’s Congress in Tripoli riding an electric...