RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Fakhri al-Barghouthi spent 33 years in Israeli prisons for his role in the struggle against the Israeli occupation. Inspired by freedom movements all over the world and believing in the ability to liberate Palestine from Israeli rule, he along with many other Palestinians joined the resistance more than 40 year...
ISTANBUL (AA) – All parties must “seriously learn from the hard lessons of the Ukraine crisis,” according to China’s top diplomat. “Apart from seriously impacting Europe, the Ukraine crisis has produced a negative spillover effect spreading around the world,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a Sunday night phone call with his Hungarian counter...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have staged rallies to demand legal protection to detainees held by Israel. “Freedom to Detainees” and “No to Administrative Detention” were among banners waved by protesters during the rally held outside the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Gaza City. “The [&h...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine has called on the US administration to step up pressure on Israel to halt plans for new settlement building in the occupied West Bank. The US President concluded a maiden visit to the Middle East region last week that included Israel, the West Bank and Saudi Arabia. “As soon as […]
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Union has extended sanctions against Kurdish nationalist groups PKK and TAK, as well as Marxist revolutionary group DHKP/C for another 6 months as it updated its list of ‘terrorist’ entities. The EU’s terrorist list has been renewed and upheld for a further six months,the Council of the European Union a...
ANKARA (AA) – Russia, amid sanctions on the country, will not give up its development and will not return to decades ago as the “ill-wishers” predict, President Vladimir Putin has said. Chairing the meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects via a video link, Putin also vowed to beat the “col...
BRUSSELS (AA) – EU foreign ministers have reached a political agreement to send a further tranche of €500 million ($508 million) military aid for Ukraine. Speaking at a news conference after their meeting, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that the EU top diplomats “unanimously agreed on the need to continue to stand firmly […]...
ANKARA (AA) – An Australian teenager detained at a prison in Syria’s northeastern city of Al-Hasakah has died, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said over the weekend. In a statement, HRW said Yusuf Zahab’s family reported that he was forced as a child to live under Daesh/ISIS before he was detained. The family was informed by […]
Khartoum, Sudan – (AFP): Thousands of Sudan’s Hawsa people set up barricades and attacked government buildings in several cities Monday, witnesses said, after a week of deadly tribal clashes in the country’s south. Violence in Blue Nile state, bordering Ethiopia, has killed 60 people and wounded 163 others, including 13 in se...
Sadiqabad, Pakistan – (AFP): At least 18 women drowned and dozens more people are missing after an overcrowded boat carrying a Pakistan wedding party capsized on Monday, officials said. The boat was ferrying about 100 members of one family across the Indus river in a marriage procession between the villages of Machka and Kharor in [&hell...
