Egypt unveils $53B Gaza rebuilding plan
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BAKU (AA) – The Armenian armed forces opened fire on Azerbaijan’s army positions on the border, the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry said on Monday. The Azerbaijani army positions in the direction of the Damirchidam settlement of the Kalbajar region were subjected to “intensive fire” by the Armenian military, a ministry statement said. “The ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egypt’s national dialogue called by military ruler Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi started in the capital Cairo on Tuesday. The dialogue is attended by all political groups in the country, except the Muslim Brotherhood movement, blacklisted by the authorities since 2013. The first session of the dialogue discussed priorities of national w...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has said that at least 200 children in Somalia have died of malnutrition since January, with the country witnessing “catastrophic food insecurity” for the first time since 2017. Drought conditions have deteriorated follow...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan’s army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has said the ruling sovereign council will be dissolved after the formation of a new government. Al-Burhan said in a televised speech that the army will withdraw from the ongoing political talks and allow political and revolutionary groups to sit together to agree on [...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Monday rejected “manipulation” of investigations into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Abu Akleh, 51, was shot dead on May 11 while covering an Israeli military raid near the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. While Palestinian officials and he...
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate John Fetterman on Tuesday voiced support for a federal ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines following multiple shootings over the long holiday weekend, including one that left six dead and dozens wounded in a Chicago suburb. “Gisele and I are heartbroken for the victims of these shootings an...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon said Monday that Hezbollah’s move to fly drones into the disputed Karish gas field was out of the state’s responsibility. “Lebanon considers any act that falls outside the framework of the state’s responsibility and the diplomatic track within which negotiations are taking place is unacceptable ...
A community in West Virginia is planning to appeal a ruling handed down Monday by a federal judge who concluded that three pharmaceutical companies are not liable for the vast damage done to the area by their shipments of millions of opioids. Cabell County and the city of Huntington argued in court last year that AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal He...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon plans to return 15,000 Syrian refugees every month to Syria, Minister of the Displaced Issam Sharafeddine said on Monday. “It’s unacceptable that Syrian refugees don’t return to their country after the end of the war there,” Sharafeddine told a press conference following his meeting with President Michel Ao...
The nation’s largest nurses union on Tuesday urged U.S. senators to “take a stand for reproductive health justice” following the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade by suspending the filibuster and passing a bill codifying abortion rights. In a letter echoing calls by progressive activists and lawmakers, National Nu...
