JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel and Bahrain on Monday signed a framework agreement for cooperation on the sidelines of a six-party summit held in the southern city of Negev. The summit, which concluded earlier Monday, brought together the foreign ministers of Israel, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, Morocco, and the United States....
ISTANBUL (AA) – Senior officials from Afghanistan, Indonesia, and Qatar met in Doha at the weekend for talks on the situation in Afghanistan, an Afghan official said on Monday. The three-way meeting of acting Afghan Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi, Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi, and Lolwah Al-Khater, deputy foreign ministe...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Monday nominated the head of his allied party as the new chief minister of key Punjab province, in an attempt to bag five crucial votes against the opposition’s no-trust motion which could de-seat him. Information Minister Farrukh Habib confirmed that Usman Buzdar, the ch...
ANKARA (AA) – Ayaz Mutallibov, the first president of Azerbaijan after the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union, passed away Sunday at the age of 83. Mutallibov was born in the capital Baku in 1938. After graduating from the Azerbaijan State Institute of Petroleum and Chemistry in 1962, Mutallibov in 1963 became a [&he...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia used high-precision weapons to hit a fuel depot near Lviv, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing in Moscow. It destroyed an airfield and a repair plant in Lviv and a missile depot near the capital Kyiv over the past day. “In total, since the beginning of the special […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The next meeting of Russian and Ukrainian negotiating teams will be held in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul, the Turkish and Russian presidents agreed on Sunday. In a phone call, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s Vladimir Putin discussed the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war and the negotiations, said a sta...
GENEVA (AA) – The number of civilians killed in Ukraine since Russia’s war on it began has climbed to 1,119, but is likely much higher, the UN said Sunday, as those fleeing the war have swelled to over 3.8 million. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said that from Feb. […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia’s media watchdog has warned media against publishing a recent interview with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine. “Roskomnadzor warns Russian media about the need to refrain from publishing this interview,” Roskomnadzor said in a statement on its official website. The statement added that ...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has reiterated its commitment to reaching a political solution to the conflict in Yemen. GCC Secretary-General Nayef Al-Hajraf met Sunday in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, with Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed bin Mubarak for talks on developments in Yemen. The GCC has invited Yemen’s warring par...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Two Israeli police officers were killed and three injured in an attack in the northern city of Hadera on Sunday. The two attackers were shot dead by police, and the injured police officers were taken to the hospital. “Luckily, our police managed to neutralize the attackers and prevent a bigger terrorist attack.” [&h...
