TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – At least four people died when their boat capsized off the coast of Libya, the UN migration agency said Monday. “A wooden boat capsized yesterday off Surman, #Libya with 20 migrants onboard, according to @unmigration teams,” the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Libya said on Twitter. “2 people rescued, 4 ...
NEW DELHI (AA) – In recent weeks, right-wing groups in Karnataka have launched anti-Muslim campaigns, including the exclusion of Muslim traders from fairs near Hindu temples and a push to ban halal meat. Earlier this year, when a group of Muslim schoolgirls in the southern Indian state of Karnataka were barred from entering the classroom...
ANKARA – Turkiye has condemned the killing of a Palestinian woman by Israeli security forces, saying she posed no threat. “We strongly condemn that a civilian Palestinian woman, Ghada Sabateen, although she posed no threat to them, was shot to death without any warning by the Israeli security forces, in the town of Husan in [&helli...
KARACHI, Pakistan – Former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who became the first-ever Pakistani leader to be voted out through a no-confidence motion, finished his nearly four-year stint with a mix of successes and failures. Khan came to power through a popular vote in the 2018 general elections, promising to bolster a crippling economy, fight corru...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran on Tuesday summoned Afghanistan’s chargé d’affaires in Tehran to protest attacks on Iranian diplomatic missions in Kabul and Herat. The Iranian Foreign Ministry said consular services at diplomatic missions in Afghanistan would cease their operations until full security was assured. It urged the Afghan auth...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A Palestinian was killed by Israeli police on Tuesday after an alleged stabbing attack in southern Israel, according to police. A police statement said an officer approached a Palestinian man who was acting in a “suspicious way” in the city of Ashkelon and during the check, the man drew a knife and […]
SIDON, Lebanon (AA) – At least one person was killed and seven others were injured in an explosion near Sidon in southern Lebanon, local media reported early Tuesday. The Al Arabiya television network reported that the explosion occurred near the office of the Shia Amal Movement. Images and videos were shared on social media of […]
LONDON (AA) – A man has been found guilty of murdering British lawmaker Sir David Amess at the Old Bailey who was killed in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, last October. The 69-year-old Conservative MP was stabbed to death while meeting with locals in his constituency. Ali Harbi Ali, 26, was convicted of murder and preparing acts of […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s parliament on Monday elected Shehbaz Sharif, the three-time chief minister of the key province of Punjab, as the country’s new prime minister. Shehbaz, the younger brother of three-time Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, took oath of the office later in the evening. He grabbed the office following a su...
Tehran, Iran (AFP) – Tehran on Monday questioned Washington’s will in reaching an agreement to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement, with key sticking points unresolved after talks halted last month. Iran has been engaged for a year in negotiations with France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China directly, and the United States indire...
