BAGHDAD (AA) – Angry demonstrators shut an oil refinery in Dhi Qar province in southern Iraq on Wednesday, protesting against lack of jobs for local residents, according to witnesses. Dozens of university graduates gathered in front of the Al-Gharraf oilfield to demand employment, witnesses said. “They protested a month after they applied for ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Christians in Jerusalem have protested Israeli restrictions on the celebrations of the Holy Fire Saturday in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in East Jerusalem. The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate and the Armenian Patriarchate have also protested a decision by Israeli police to limit the number of participants in the April 16 cele...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Saudi Arabia on Wednesday vowed support to cash-strapped Lebanon amid a crippling economic crisis in the country. Saudi Ambassador Walid Bukhari met with Lebanese President Michel Aoun at the presidential palace in Beirut. Aoun was briefed by the Saudi envoy on the working mechanism of the Saudi-French joint fund “dedica...
BAGHDAD (AA) – The Iraqi military has thwarted rocket attacks targeting vital facilities in northern areas of the capital Baghdad. The Iraqi army’s Baghdad Operations Command said on Wednesday that its forces “arrested three suspects after monitoring their movements” in the Karkh and Rusafa areas in Baghdad. After getting informati...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Train services in Bangladesh resumed on Wednesday after a seven-hour strike ended with the country’s rail minister promising to meet rail workers’ demands. “I have informed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the Finance Ministry about the demands of the staffers and as per directions of the premie...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ten people, including five foreign tourists, were killed in a bus crash in southern Egypt on Wednesday, according to local media. The accident occurred when a bus carrying tourists collided with a car on a highway between the southern city of Aswan and the famed Abu Simbel temple further south, Youm7 newspaper […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian man was killed and dozens were injured in clashes with Israeli forces Wednesday in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. The ministry identified the young man as Muhammad Hassan Assaf, 34, who was fatally shot in the chest by the Israeli army in the city of […]
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish security forces killed three PKK members in northern Iraq, the National Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry said on Twitter that PKK members, spotted in the Operation Claw-Tiger zone, were killed with fire support vehicles. Operations Claw-Tiger and Claw-Eagle began in border regions of northern Iraq in 2020 ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran is open to public sector investments from regional countries in nuclear energy, a senior official told Anadolu Agency. Pejman Shirmardi, Deputy Director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said Tehran welcomes public sector companies from countries in the region to enter the field. “Iran’s cap...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said that “peaceful” settlement of the Kashmir dispute with neighboring India is “indispensable.” Thanking his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for felicitations on his election as premier, Shehbaz said that Islamabad desires “peaceful” and “cooperative”...
