BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon has denied reports about taking discriminatory measures against Syrian refugees in the country. In a statement, the Lebanese Foreign Ministry said Lebanon has not taken any measures or decisions that would distinguish between the displaced Syrians and Lebanese citizens. The ministry said the global food cri...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco’s King Mohammed VI has called for establishing normal relations with regional rival Algeria. “We aspire to work with the Algerian presidency so that Morocco and Algeria can work hand in hand to establish normal relations between two brotherly peoples,” the monarch said in a speech marking t...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq’s parliament session was suspended on Saturday following the breaching of its building by supporters of Moqtada al-Sadr, the parliament speaker announced. In a statement published by Iraqi official agency INA, Mohammed al-Halbusi said the country is going through difficult and sensitive times, and that differences of opinio...
ERBIL, Iraq (AA) – The head of northern Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG), Nechirvan Barzani, on Sunday called for dialogue between the country’s political rivals in Erbil. “KRG will always be part of a solution to the ongoing political deadlock in Iraq,” Barzani said in a statement. He said the proposed dialogue “aims to reach [&...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A young Bangladeshi woman, Jaeda Akhter, was trapped by an international human trafficking gang and taken to India in late 2020. She was able to return home after a year with a harrowing experience she will never forget. Akhter, 30, is a wife and the mother of a young boy. She […]
ANKARA (AA) – The treatment of Indigenous peoples in Canada was a “genocide,” Pope Francis said on his way back home after a six-day visit to Canada. “I asked for forgiveness, forgiveness for this operation that is genocidal,” Pope told reporters on the return flight from Canada, Vatican News reported on Saturday....
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The health of three Tunisian judges who have been on hunger strike for several weeks in protest against President Kais Saied’s decision to fire 57 justices has deteriorated and they have been admitted to hospital, according to a judicial fraternity organization. A statement issued by the Tunisian Judges Associ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are concerned after a report said hepatitis was spreading in squalid makeshift tents in the border district of Cox’s Bazar. One-fifth of the adult Rohingya living in 34 refugee camps in a hilly site of Bangladesh’s main tourist hub of Cox’s Bazar, is infected with hepatitis C [&hel...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least 25 people have been killed in rain-related accidents in the last two days as a fresh spell of monsoon rains and flash floods inundated large swathes of Pakistan, triggering landslides and washing away houses, roads, and bridges, officials and local media reported on Saturday. Some 25 people have lost [&h...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The death toll in devastating flash floods that have wreaked havoc across Iran in the past few days has reached 56, according to officials, with a weather alert still in place. Mehdi Valipour, the head of emergency operations at Iran’s Red Crescent Society, told reporters on Saturday that the floods triggered [&...
