DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Turkish and Qatari agencies signed a deal Thursday to build a residential village with a 1,000-house capacity in northern Syria. The agreement to build the village in the al-Bab region for displaced Syrians was reached by the Qatari Red Crescent and Türkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency (AFAD) in...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Forest fires raging for days in northern Tunisia are now “90% under control,” an official said on Thursday. Blazes have been spreading in forests in Bargou, located around 110 kilometers (68 miles) south of the capital Tunis, for some five days. “The wildfires erupted on Sunday and grew in intensity over […]...
RAMALLAH (AA) – Palestine’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh met Germany’s Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office Tobias Lindner in Ramallah on Thursday. Shtayyeh urged Germany to recognize the state of Palestine in line with Berlin’s “belief in the option of the two-state solution and the importance of preserving it,” according to a ...
ANKARA (AA) – Russia supports the processes for global peace and order based on international law, true multilateralism, and the central role of the UN, the Russian top diplomat said on Thursday. Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Foreign Ministers’ Council along with his Chinese counterpart W...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – The French president has pledged funding for Guinea Bissau’s economic development and fight against terrorism, as he wrapped up a three-country Africa tour after traveling to Cameroon and Benin. Emmanuel Macron met Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who became the chair of the West African economic bloc...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Raed Rayan, a Palestinian prisoner in Israeli prison, suspended his hunger strike on Thursday after 113 days. Hassan Abd Rabbo, a spokesman for the Prisoners and Ex-Prisoners Affairs Authority, said Rayan suspended his hunger strike after mediation by the prisoner movement’s leaders as well as legal efforts of the Pr...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Two Indigenous women unfurled a large banner during a mass on Thursday in Quebec, asking Pope Francis to “rescind the doctrine.” The banner referred to the Doctrine of Discovery, a contentious 15th Century papal edict that allowed explorers to take land from non-Christian countries with impunity. Some of Cana...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China’s President Xi Jinping has warned his US counterpart “not to play with fire” on Taiwan, as he held a “candid” phone conversation with US President Joe Biden on bilateral relations. “Those who play with fire will perish by it,” Xi told Biden regarding Taiwan, according to a statement posted on the [&helli...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Education Minister George Magoha met Muslim leaders in Kenya and NTV journalist Rukia Bulle to apologize for his offensive racist and Islamophobic remarks. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji and the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM) chair Hassan Ole Naado were among Muslim leaders present...
Conakry, Guinea — (AFP): Protests against Guinea’s ruling junta held in defiance of a protest ban have brought the capital Conakry to a standstill, with clashes breaking out in some neighbourhoods. The National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC), an influential coalition of political parties, trade unions and civil so...
