JENIN, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian man was shot down by Israeli forces in the northern occupied West Bank on Wednesday, officials said. Wissam Bakr, director of the Khalil Suleiman government hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin, said a young man died after being shot by Israeli forces. Witnesses told Anadolu Agency that […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has rejected as “baseless, one-sided and unjust” a statement issued by the Group of Seven (G7) following their summit in Germany. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said the G7 statement was in line with “erroneous habits of the countries that issued it” and shows “their insistence on failed policies that [...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – A senior security official survived an assassination attempt in Yemen’s southern city of Aden on Wednesday, according to a local security source. A car-bomb explosion targeted the convoy of Lahij security chief, Bri. Saleh al-Sayyid, on a road leading to Aden airport, the source said. The security official emerged unhurt fr...
New Delhi, India – (AFP) Rights activists and journalists on Tuesday condemned the “arbitrary” and “unlawful” arrest of the co-founder of a top fact-checking website in India who has been a vocal critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mohammed Zubair was detained on Monday after being questioned by police, before...
Kabul, Afghanistan – (AFP) Hundreds of religious leaders and “people of influence” from around Afghanistan have been summoned to the capital to attend a three-day grand council in support of the country’s Taliban rule. Officials provided scant details of the men-only meeting which started on Wednesday, a week after a po...
Idlib, Syria – (AFP) A US drone strike in northwestern Syria killed a Yemeni leader of a local extremist group affiliated to Al-Qaeda, the US military and a Syrian war monitor said. The strike, carried out on Monday just before midnight (2100 GMT) on the eastern edge of the city of Idlib, took out a […]
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – (AFP) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, just weeks after a top official’s remarks about the Prophet Mohammed set off anger in the Gulf. India’s foreign minister said Modi’s visit was to convey his sympathies to Sheikh Mohamed — whose b...
Doha, Qatar – (AFP) Qatar has said that World Cup fans have “a lot of options” with more than 100,000 rooms currently available and tens of thousands more expected by the tournament’s kickoff. Some football supporters have expressed concern that they have been unable to find accommodation in line with their budget for t...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Spain’s top prosecutor will open an investigation into the deaths of migrants trying to cross the border from Morocco to Spain. Moroccan officials say 23 people died in the violent incident, while several NGOs say the true death toll is 37. Although Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez applauded the actions of Moroccan […]...
MADRID (AA) – Türkiye, Finland and Sweden signed a memorandum Tuesday on the Nordic countries’ bids for NATO membership following four-way talks in Madrid. Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto and Sweden’s Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson met to discuss the issu...
