GAZA CITY, Palestine – An Arab NGO documented 148 violations of Palestinian journalists’ rights by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories last month. In a statement, the Journalists Support Committee said the month of May witnessed a surge in attacks on Palestinian journalists by Israeli forces and settlers. It termed the attacks...
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan discussed the implementation of agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh in a phone call on Wednesday. Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a 44-day war over the South Caucasian region in 2020. Putin and Pashinyan stressed the importance of stepping up joint work to ensure re...
ANKARA – The number of Syrians returning to their country since 2016 has exceeded 500,000, according to the Turkish interior ministry. Following Türkiye’s military operations targeting the PKK and its affiliates across its border in northern Syria, conditions have gradually have made it possible for Syrians to return, the ministry ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon – The World Bank has called on Lebanon to accelerate implementing a comprehensive recovery plan out of its currently deep economic and financial crisis. “Despite early warnings, Lebanon has lost precious time and numerous opportunities to adopt a path to reform its economic and financial system,” Saroj Kumar Jha, th...
JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s minister of justice and correctional services has requested that a judge reopen an inquest into the death of prominent Muslim anti-apartheid activist Imam Abudllah Haron who died more than 50 years ago. “The renewed investigation into the Apartheid Crime will consider expert reports from a state pathologist ...
BRUSSELS – Belgian Muslims and Jews presented 127,000 signatures protesting a proposed ban on the slaughter of animals using their traditional religious rules, known respectively as halal and kosher. On the last day of about two weeks of debate over the proposed ban in the capital region, representatives of the Muslim and Jewish communities an...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least two people were killed and three others wounded when a roadside bomb targeted security personnel in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday, police said. Salaad Ahmed, a police officer in Mogadishu, told Anadolu Agency that a soldier and a civilian were killed when a landmine explosion hit a military [&hell...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Four soldiers part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali were wounded Wednesday while repelling a terror attack in the Kidal region. The peacekeepers’ convoy faced direct fire from small arms and rocket-propelled grenades for about one hour, said the mission’s spokesman Olivier Salgado. The ...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar discussed on Wednesday regional defense and security issues with his Pakistani counterpart Khawaja Muhammed Asif, who is accompanying Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on a three-day official visit to Türkiye. Akar welcomed Asif with military honors at the National Defense Ministry ...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye’s president on Wednesday welcomed the Pakistani prime minister with an official ceremony in the capital Ankara. Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a Turkish delegation welcomed Shehbaz Sharif and his delegation – currently on a three-day official visit to Türkiye – at the presidential complex. Among the participants in ...
