ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye’s National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Tuesday met with his Malian counterpart Sadio Camara in Ankara and condemned the latest terror attacks in Mali. The two officials held a one-on-one meeting along with talks with delegations behind closed doors. According to the Turkish Defense Ministry, Akar and Camar...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed Tuesday to the UN Security Council to urgently adopt sweeping internal reforms after he suggested the body is incapable of achieving its principal objective. Addressing the Council directly, Zelenskyy asked the body that is charged with ensuring international peace and se...
SRINAGAR, Jammu & Kashmir (AA) – In the narrow lanes of Srinagar, capital of Indian-occupied Kashmir, Mohammad Yusuf Muran, a deaf and mute walnut woodcarver, is busy crafting a sculpture of a lion and a stag in his 200-year-old workshop that has housed the finest craftsmen over many generations. Upon entering the workshop, one finds [&hel...
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Lebanon’s Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh has denied that the bank has gone bankrupt, indicating that the losses are “under processing.” Salameh’s denial came in a statement issued by the Central Bank in response to statements by Lebanese Deputy Prime Minister Saadeh al-Shami, who had said earlier that the state and ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli forces on Tuesday arrested Jerusalem Governor Adnan Ghaith, his office said. “The governor was detained by the occupation intelligence [service] from his home,” in the town of Silwan in East Jerusalem, the governor’s office said in a statement. The Israeli police did not explain the reasons for the arrest. ...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The trial of former leader of Sudanese Janjaweed militia over atrocities in the western Darfur region opened at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague on Tuesday. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd al-Rahman, commonly known as Ali Kushayb, faces 31 charges, including of war crimes, crimes against humanity, rape, intention...
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AA) – Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah on Tuesday submitted his government’s resignation to Crown Prince Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, according to the state news agency KUNA. The agency, however, did not provide further details about the reason for the resignation, which comes a week after the parliame...
TEHRAN (AA) – A middle-aged cleric was killed and two others critically injured Tuesday in a stabbing attack at a popular religious shrine in Iran’s northeastern city of Mashhad. The deceased was identified as Mohammad Aslani, a cleric who was volunteering at the shrine during the holy month of Ramadan. The attack took place in [&h...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel on Tuesday banned Palestinian males between the ages of 12 and 40 in the occupied West Bank from entering Masjid al-Aqsa for Friday prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Palestinian women, children under 12 and men older than 50 can enter occupied East Jerusalem without permission if they would [&hellip...
ANKARA – Ukraine has said that some 18,300 Russian soldiers have been killed in the country as the war enters its 40th day. The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has said the Russian army lost 147 aircraft, 134 helicopters and 647 tanks. At least 1,844 Russian armored vehicles, 330 artillery systems, 107 rocket […]
