RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco plans to authorize councils for the Jewish community inside the country and abroad, according to the Royal Palace. A proposal regarding the formation of the councils was presented during a Cabinet meeting headed by King Mohammed VI on Wednesday, Palace spokesman Abdul Haq al-Marini said. During the meeting, Interi...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia’s proposed constitution by President Kais Saied lacks “mechanisms to protect rights,” Human Rights Watch (HRW) has observed. In a statement, the New York-based rights group said the constitution “enumerates many rights but eviscerates the checks and balances needed to protect them.” The dra...
LONDON (AA) – The new British prime minister must treat “systemic” Islamophobia in the ruling Conservative Party seriously, according to the head of the UK’s leading Muslim organization. As the party searches for outgoing Premier Boris Johnson’s successor, whoever wins “must represent everybody and they have to make sure that they do tha...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – A Swedish court has sentenced a former Iranian official to life in prison over alleged crimes dating back to the late 1980s, in a high-profile case that fueled tensions between Iran and Sweden in recent months. Hamid Nouri, a 61-year-old former Iranian judiciary official, was convicted by a court in Stockholm [&hellip...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina is set to bid farewell on July 20 to 16 more victims of the Prijedor massacre who have recently been identified. The Institute for Missing Persons said the identifications of the 1992 massacre victims are 30 years late. Getting proper identifications involves unearthing bodies from mass grav...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – The Malian government has decided to suspend all military and police contingent rotations of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). Rotations that have already been announced or are scheduled will also be affected by the suspension. The suspension will last till a f...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi warned Thursday of a “harsh and regrettable” response, hours after US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid issued a joint declaration against Iran. Speaking at a public meeting in the western city of Kermanshah, Raisi said any “mistake” on th...
JERUSALEM (AA) – US President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid have signed a joint declaration to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. “We will not allow Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon,” Biden told a joint press conference following the signing of the “Jerusalem Declaration” with Lapid. The declaration includes ...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The head of Palestinian resistance group Hamas has said that efforts by US President Joe Biden to integrate Israel into the Middle East region are doomed to fail. “Attempts by the US administration to re-design the region in order to integrate the occupying entity [Israel] in the region […] are [&h...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – Scores of Palestinians have staged a protest against the upcoming visit by US President Joe Biden to the Israel-occupied West Bank. Biden arrived in Israel on Wednesday on his first visit since he become president, expressing deep solidarity with the Zionist state. He is scheduled to meet Palestinian President Ma...
