ISTANBUL – China has launched three new satellites into space to undertake scientific space environment surveys and model correction. The indigenously-built Long March-11 carrier rocket was blasted into space with the satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, shortly entering their planned orbit. The three s...
JERUSALEM – Two Ukrainians were among five people killed in a shooting attack in central Israel. A police statement said that the two Ukrainian nationals were aged 23 and 33, but did not reveal their names. Police said the attacker was a 26-year-old Palestinian from Ya’bad village near Jenin in the occupied West Bank. Israeli […]
ISTANBUL – The Pakistani and Russian foreign ministers have separately met their Chinese counterpart Wang Yi . Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Sergey Lavrov are in China to attend the third meeting of the foreign ministers of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries due to take place this week. Wang received the Pakistani and Russian foreign ministe...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – Palestine has accused Israel of exploiting most territory of Area C in the occupied West Bank. “The Israeli occupation directly exploits 76% of the total area classified (C),” the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said in a statement marking the 46th anniversary of the Land Day. Under the 1995 Oslo Accords be...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Three Kashmiri students who were detained on charges of celebrating Pakistan’s victory against India in a cricket match last year have been granted bail. A court in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday announced the verdict. The students, Arhseed Yusuf, Showkat Ahmed Ganai and Inayat Altaf Sheikh, w...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US sanctioned an Iranian national and his network of companies Wednesday on charges of aiding Iran’s ballistic missile program. Mohammad Ali Hosseini used his network to procure items for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Research and Self Sufficiency Jihad Organization, which is responsible for T...
BAGHDAD (AA) – The Iraqi Parliament on Wednesday failed to elect the country’s new president for the second time in less than a week. A scheduled voting session failed to be held due to lack of quorum after dozens of lawmakers boycotted the meeting. Only 200 members of the 329-seat parliament attended Wednesday’s session, according […]...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – The Ukrainian General Staff said Wednesday that the Russian army was continuing to withdraw from the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions. The General Staff in a post on Facebook evaluated the 34th day of the Russia-Ukraine war. The statement said the Russian army could not fulfill the task of besieging Kyiv and […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli army forces early Wednesday detained 23 Palestinians, including a woman, in raids in the occupied West Bank, according to a Palestinian NGO. The detention campaign targeted the cities of Qalqilya, Jenin, Nablus, Ramallah and Bethlehem, the Asra Media Office said in a statement. In a related development,...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Mauritanian Prime Minister Mohamed Ould Bilal on Tuesday tendered his government’s resignation to the country’s president, an official statement said. The resignation came days after President Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani severely criticized the government’s performance. “Most ministries do not have...
