NEW DELHI (AA) – Prominent Indian Muslim organizations and leaders have called the murder of a Hindu man in India’s Rajasthan state on Tuesday a “disgrace to humanity and an act of defaming Islam.” The Muslim leaders responded to a video posted on social media by two men claiming to have committed a murder of […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Denouncing the West’s push to forge military alliances in the Asia-Pacific region, China has told the UN Security Council that NATO’s expansion has “sowed the seed of conflict.” “NATO’s five eastward expansions after the Cold War have not only failed to make Europe securer, but also sowed the seed of conflict,” Ambassador [&hel...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AA) – The chairperson of the African Union Commission on Wednesday called on both Sudan and Ethiopia to refrain from military escalation over the al-Fashqa border area. Al Fashqa, a northern border triangle between Ethiopia, Sudan and Eritrea, has been a disputed territory for over a decade between Sudan and Ethiop...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Sudan has said that it is exercising self-restraint amid ongoing tension with Ethiopia over the killing of seven Sudanese soldiers. “The government’s duty is to defend its territory and citizens,” Foreign Ministry undersecretary Dafallah Al-Hajj Ali said in a statement carried by the state news agency SUNA. “Sudan i...
MADRID (AA) – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has said that the alliance must diversify its energy suppliers as Russia uses energy “as a weapon.” “The war in Ukraine shows the danger of being too dependent on commodities from authoritarian regimes. The way Russia is using energy as a weapon of coercion highlights the need t...
ANKARA (AA): The indictment of suspected ISIS member Ayshat Rzaeva has been accepted by the Ankara 26th High Criminal Court. Russian national Ayshat Rzaeva was caught in Ankara in 2021 while being sought on an Interpol Red Notice on the grounds that she was a member of the group. The indictment filed by the Ankara […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli President Isaac Herzog met this week with Jordan’s King Abdullah II in Amman, his office stated on Wednesday. Herzog’s office, however, did not specify when the meeting exactly took place, only saying that it came upon an invitation from the Jordanian monarch. “Ahead of US President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s vi...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Twenty bodies of people believed to be migrants were found in Libya’s desert close to the border with Chad, according to the Libyan authorities on Wednesday. In a statement, the Ambulance Service said the bodies were found inside a pickup truck 310 kilometers south of Kufra city. It said the truck […]
LONDON (AA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced Tuesday that Argentina is on track to become a member of the BRICS group of emerging economies along with Iran. “Of course, both Argentina and Iran are worthy and respected candidates, as well as a number of other countries that are also mentioned in the discussions,...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said the five Caspian states have reached an agreement on military use in the Caspian Sea. “It was decided that navigation is carried out only by vessels under the flag of one of the Caspian countries and the same principle applies to the entry and exit […]
