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WASHINGTON (AA) – The situation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is increasingly tenuous amid mounting settlement expansion, violence, Palestinian evictions and demolitions of Palestinian-owned properties, the UN warned on Thursday. “I’m extremely concerned that current dynamics, particularly in the occupied West Bank, could...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has identified nine monkeypox cases in seven states, according to multiple reports published on Thursday. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky announced the new totals during a briefing with reporters, noting that all cases so far found were detected by local laboratorie...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Biden administration approved on Thursday the potential $2.6 billion sale to Egypt of CH-47F Chinook helicopters, and related equipment. The package includes nearly two-dozen Chinooks, 56 T-55-GA-714A engines, 52 Embedded Global Positioning System Inertial Navigation Systems, 29 AN/AAR-57 Common Missile Warning Syst...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN Security Council failed to adopt new US-backed sanctions on North Korea on Thursday due to opposition from China and Russia. The council’s 13 other members voted in favor of the new economic penalties in response to Pyongyang’s ballistic missile and nuclear tests. But China and Russia’s statuses...
PARIS (AA) – Australia’s newly elected premier pledged to rebuild the country’s bilateral relationship with France on “trust and respect,” after ties between the two countries declined to a nadir under his predecessor, according to a statement from the Elysee palace in Paris on Thursday. In a phone call, French Pr...
MARDIN, Turkiye (AA) – The EU will send an additional €530 million ($567 million) as educational assistance for Syrian children in Turkey, the bloc’s top diplomat said on Thursday. The bloc’s cooperation in the education of Syrian children in the Turkish Education System (PIKTES) will last until summer 2025, Nikolaus Meyer-La...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Senegal’s President Macky Sall sacked his health minister, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, on Thursday following a hospital fire in which 11 newborns were killed. In a presidential decree read on public television, Sall named Marie Khemesse Ngom Ndiaye as the new health minister. Ndiaye formerly served as the director general of pu...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 50 civilians have been killed by unidentified gunmen in the town of Madjoari in eastern Burkina Faso, an official said Thursday. Residents from Madjoari in Kompienga province bordering Benin were heading to Nadiagou in the town of Pama, fleeing violence, when they were targeted Wednesday by unidentified arm...
JERUSALEM/DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by an armor-piercing projectile fired directly at her head by an Israeli sniper, Palestinian attorney general Akram Al-Khatib has said. Al-Khatib shared the details based on the Public Prosecution’s report about the killing of the Al Jazeera journali...
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – Human rights defenders in Tanzania have said that they feel relieved by the measures taken by the first female President Samia Suluhu Hassan like lifting the ban on 30 media outlets, and beginning a review of repressive laws. Hassan, who took over last year in March after the death of […]
