La Goulette, Tunisia – AFP A cruise ship docked in a Tunisian port on Wednesday for the first time since 2019, carrying over 700 passengers and rare good news for tourism operators battered by the Covid pandemic. The Spirit of Discovery, run by UK operator Saga, landed at La Goulette port on the edge of […]
BAGHDAD (AA) – The Al-Sadr party of Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday announced an agreement with the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and the Sunni Sovereignty Alliance on naming the KDP’s nominee Reber Ahmed for the Iraqi presidency and Mohammad Jaafar al-Sadr of Al-Sadr party for the position of Iraq’s prime minister. Following a meeting a...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Around half of Sudan’s population will face acute hunger this year amid an economic crisis and poor harvests, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the World Food Program (WFP) warned on Wednesday. The two agencies blamed the country’s economic crisis, poor harvests and rising food prices for worsening the [...
Damascus, Syria – AFP Iran’s top diplomat on Wednesday welcomed efforts to “normalize relations” between some Arab countries and Syria, days after President Bashar al-Assad made a surprise visit to the UAE. Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks on a visit to Damascus during which he met Assad, his S...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh’s foreign secretary has said that his country is strongly committed to establishing a peace process for Palestine and denounces Islamophobia. Masud Bin Momen expressed his country’s stance while addressing the 48th Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) he...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The foreign ministers of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have endorsed Pakistan’s call for a joint probe to establish the facts surrounding the “accidental” firing of a missile into Pakistan from India earlier this month. In a resolution adopted Wednesday at the culmination of the two-da...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Two al Shabaab fighters were killed and at least three police officers wounded in an al-Shabaab attack on the international airport in the capital Mogadishu. The attackers used small weapons and hand grenades as they tried to infiltrate the Aden Adde International Airport. “They tried to force their way into the airp...
WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden has said that he believes use of chemical weapons in Ukraine by Russia is a “real threat.” “I think it’s a real threat,” said Biden ahead of his departure for Europe when asked how high is the threat of chemical warfare right now. Biden is scheduled to attend a […]
MOSCOW – The special envoy of Russian President Vladimir Putin resigned from his post, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced. “(Anatoly) Chubais resigned of his own accord. As for whether he left or not — it’s his own business,” Peskov told reporters in Moscow. It is the first time since the beginning of the w...
ISTANBUL – Educational institutions reopened in Afghanistan after a gap of nearly seven months. Officials of the Taliban-led interim government held a ceremony to mark the new academic calendar. At a function in Amani High School in Kabul, Syed Ahmad Shahid Khel, a Taliban official, said Islam considers knowledge, and understanding “as b...
