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ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Police in Nigeria’s southern state of Anambra killed 10 bandits during an operation against armed gangs, an official said Sunday. Ammunition belonging to the bandits was also seized, said Ikenga Tochukwu, the spokesman for the Anambra state police. A long-running conflict between cattle herders and farmers in Taraba...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and more than 14 others wounded when a suicide car bomb blast rocked the town of Jowhar in Somalia on Sunday, officials said. A police officer in Jowhar told Anadolu Agency that it was a suicide car bomb attack that targeted Nur Dob hotel, killing […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday swept the crucial by-elections, paving the way for its government in the country’s bellwether Punjab province, unofficial results showed. The PTI won 17 out of 20 provincial assembly seats, consolidating its le...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Three Palestinians were injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank on Sunday. The injuries occurred in clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces during a raid in the town of Tubas in the northern West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. The injured were rushed to the [&hel...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Thousands of Sudanese protesters staged fresh rallies in the capital Khartoum on Sunday to demand the restoration of civilian rule in the country. Demonstrators in Khartoum and the cities of Bahri and Omdurman waved banners demanding civilian rule amid chants against the military, according to reporters. Protesters...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Moroccan authorities are struggling to bring fires that ravaged remote mountain forests under control. “The flames have damaged around 4,600 hectares of forests,” Fouad Assali, head of the National Center for Climate and Forest Risk Management, told the local media. He said firefighters were struggling for a fifth d...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has asked for clarifications about the questioning of Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi by Tunisian authorities, a former parliamentarian said on Saturday. Maher Madhioub said in a Facebook post that the IPU’s Human Rights Committee requested clarifications from Tunisian authoritie...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s Houthi rebels have said they will reject any extension of UN-brokered truce with the Yemeni government. In a statement, the group’s Supreme Political Council dismissed reports about “renewing the ongoing truce in the country,” the Houthi-run Saba news agency reported. “The truce in which the aggressor failed t...
ANKARA (AA) – The foreign ministers of Türkiye and Iran on Saturday discussed preparations for a high-level meeting, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Mevlut Cavusoglu and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held the discussion after the Iranian foreign minister paid an official visit to Türkiye on June 27. The presidents of the thr...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AA) – Saudi Arabia has said it will continue to bolster its partnerships with both the United States and China. “We build bridges with people; we don’t see one as exclusive of the other,” Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Adel al-Jubeir, said in an interview with CNBC network on Saturday. “China [&h...
