TEHRAN (AA) – Adviser to Iran’s supreme leader has expressed Tehran’s readiness for dialogue with regional countries to resolve disputes. Kamal Kharrazi, who is also a former Iranian foreign minister, in an interview with Al Jazeera, said Iran is ready to hold dialogue with key regional players, including Saudi Arabia, Türkiy...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Resistance group Hamas on Sunday called on the international community to intervene to halt Israeli violations against Palestinians. The call came after a UN report highlighted Israeli violations, settler violence and settlement building in the Palestinian territories. On Friday, the UN Special Committee to Investig...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli flag carrier El Al has submitted an official request to use Saudi Arabia’s airspace, according to the Israeli media. Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said upon approval, flights from Israel to eastern Asia will be set to fly via a new shortened route within two weeks, a move that will minimize the cost […]
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli army Chief of Staff, Aviv Kochavi, is scheduled to pay an official visit to Morocco this week, according to the Israeli media. Kochavi’s three-day trip will be the first time an Israeli military chief officially visits the North African nation. Last month, Israeli military officials participated as observers in a ma...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar are facing unforeseen delays in the international justice process for genocide and other gross human rights violations, prolonging the plight of the displaced community living in squalid makeshift tents in Bangladesh. “It’s almost five years since the most inhuman militar...
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AA) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman has said that the kingdom will seek to increase its oil production to 13 million barrels per day. Addressing an Arab-American summit in the Saudi city of Jeddah, bin Salman said the kingdom currently produces around 11 million barrels a day. “We have an […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met in the Georgian capital Tbilisi as part of peace talks between the two South Caucasus countries. Accompanied by their respective delegations, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan met in Tbilisi, Georgia’s Foreign Mini...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN special envoy for Syria has said that the next session of the Syrian-led and UN-facilitated talks scheduled for July 25-29 in Geneva “is no longer possible.” While Geir Pedersen said he regrets that holding the ninth session of the “Constitutional Committee’s Small Body” to find a constitution for the war...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The presidents of Türkiye and France discussed the decisions taken to facilitate Ukrainian grain exports at four-way talks held in Istanbul, according to the Turkish Communications Directorate. In a phone call, Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that during the Istanbul meeting it was agreed ...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Police in Nigeria’s southern state of Anambra killed 10 bandits during an operation against armed gangs, an official said Sunday. Ammunition belonging to the bandits was also seized, said Ikenga Tochukwu, the spokesman for the Anambra state police. A long-running conflict between cattle herders and farmers in Taraba...
