DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Local Senegalese citizens and the country’s diaspora voted in Senegal’s general elections on Sunday to choose members of the 165-seat parliament to govern for the next five years. Voting booths and polling stations opened at 0800 GMT, with local media reporting a moderate turnout. “There was no major inciden...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Indicating that the next round of talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal could come soon, Iran’s lead negotiator has said that his country seeks a “swift conclusion” to the negotiations. Ali Bagheri, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, took to Twitter to announce that Tehran has responded to European Unio...
Moscow, Russia – (AFP): The Kremlin has supported China’s stance on Taiwan after Chinese President Xi Jinping warned US leader Joe Biden not to “play with fire” over the self-ruled island. “Certainly we are in solidarity,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “We respect China’s sovere...
RIYADH (AA) – Saudi Arabia has reiterated that it will not change its firm position on the Palestinian issue, despite its decision to open its airspace to all international aircraft, including those from Israel. This was stated by Mohamed al-Atiq, the acting charge d’affaires of the Saudi Arabia’s permanent delegation to the UN, during a [&hel...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has conveyed to the interim administration in Kabul that Beijing supports extending the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to Afghanistan. “China hopes to push the alignment of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with the development strategies of Afghanistan,” China’s top diplomat Wang Yi told Afghan interim Fo...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – Former US President Donald Trump has defended his decision to host a controversial Saudi Arabia-funded golfing event. He made the remarks at a pro-am game held on the eve of the third LIV Golf tournament, which will take place between July 29-31 at the Trump National Golf Bedminster course in New […]
ANKARA (AA) – A senior French officer warned Australia that owning nuclear-powered subs bought from the US and UK will be “much more difficult” than the plan it scrapped to build a new fleet of conventionally powered boats, local media said on Friday. French Vice Adm. Nicolas Vaujour, chief of operations of the joint staff [&hellip...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Algeria has resumed commercial operations with Spain after Algerian Banks Association announced the suspension of a decision that had frozen trade exchanges with Spain. Banking institutions operating in Algeria received a new directive earlier on July 28 stating that the decision to “stop any commercial operations...
BEIRUT (AA) – A Syrian ship carrying stolen grain from Ukraine anchored in Lebanon’s Tripoli Port, a Lebanese minister has said. “The Ministry of Agriculture and the General Customs Office are following the developments regarding the Syrian ship, which carried stolen flour and barley of Ukraine and anchored in Tripoli Port,” Lebanese Tra...
BEIRUT (AA) – Grain silos at Beirut’s blast-hit port partially collapsed on Sunday, four days before the second anniversary of the massive 2020 explosion in the Lebanese capital. The northern part of the silos collapsed as a result of a weeks-long fire which has blown massive clouds of smoke across the port. After the collapse, [&h...
