
The Belgian authorities on Thursday charged four Palestinian men with the murder of a nine-year-old Palestinian boy at an asylum seekers’ center near Antwerp, prosecutors said. “The facts are qualified as hostage-taking and murder,” the prosecutor’s office in Antwerp said in a statement without giving much detail.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousawi condemned the stances of Saudi Arabian and Bahraini governments for US sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, saying that Iran will hold the US and its regional allies accountable for the negative consequences of the attempts to chock Iranian oil exports. In a Thursday statement, ...