ISLAMABAD (AA) – The US has assured Pakistan of help in stabilizing its economy, Islamabad said on Thursday. Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in New York and discussed bilateral relations between Islamabad and Washington, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Zardari arriv...
KAZAN, Russia (AA) – Gathering Russian and Islamic world economy professionals, the Kazan Summit 2022 kicked off on Thursday in Kazan, the capital of Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan. The 13th International Economic Summit: Russia-Islamic World: Kazan Summit 2022, began with the opening ceremony of the “Russia Halal Expo 2022&#...
Beirut – AFP The head of Lebanon’s powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah called Wednesday on parliamentary factions to cooperate, following elections that saw no bloc achieve a majority and the representation of independent lawmakers rise. Nobody “can claim that the majority belongs to this or that group,” said Hassan Nasr...
GENEVA (AA) – More than 160 million children are in child labor worldwide, said a report released on Wednesday by the International Labor Organization (ILO) and UN children’s agency UNICEF. In the report, the ILO and UNICEF warned that without relief strategies, the number of children in child labor could rise by 8.9 million by [&h...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s government asked the US on Wednesday to pressure the Houthi rebel group to break its seven-year siege on the southwestern Taiz province. The request was conveyed during a meeting between Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed Awad Bin Mubarak and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington DC, according to...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish forces killed 19 PKK fighters in northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry said on Thursday. The PKK men attempted to attack the Operation Peace Spring, Olive Branch and Euphrates Shield zones, the ministry said on Twitter. Since 2016, Turkiye has launched a trio of operations across its border in northern Syria: [&he...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A cargo ship came under attack in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen’s Al-Hudaydah port, a monitoring group run by the British navy said on Thursday. In a statement, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations group (UKMTO) said the attack on the vessel happened 34 nautical miles off the coast […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US and Turkiye are “committed to working closely together to face current geopolitical challenges,” the nations said Wednesday. A joint statement issued after a meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the top diplomats “intend to deepen b...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau slammed Russia on Wednesday for shutting down the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)/Radio’s Moscow bureau and for rescinding the press statuses and visas of journalists. “Obviously the truth, responsible journalism, sharing what’s actually going on with citizens...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Two prominent Sudanese opposition leaders were arrested Wednesday in South Sudan’s capital Juba. Sudanese Communist Party Secretary General Mohammed al-Khatib and leading party member Saleh Mahmud were on a political mission to meet with rebels who are non-signatories to the Juba peace agreement, party spokesman Fa...
