ALGIERS, Algeria – Algerian lawmakers have submitted a bill criminalizing normalization with Israel, including articles prohibiting travel or any direct or indirect contact with Tel Aviv. Youssef Ajesa, a lawmaker from the Movement of Society for Peace, introduced the bill to the parliament. The bill includes seven articles that aim to “...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Sandstorms across the Middle East have delayed flights, closed schools and hospitalised thousands — a phenomenon experts say could worsen as climate change warps regional weather patterns. Saudi Arabia became the latest country blanketed with dust that slowed traffic and made iconic towers in the capital diff...
A global index published Tuesday ranks the United States as the world’s leading perpetrator of financial secrecy, citing the country’s refusal to share key information with the tax authorities of other nations and its status as a generous tax haven for foreign oligarchs, rich executives, and other elites. The ranking comes despite ...
Human rights defenders on Monday hailed a “historic” U.S. House of Representatives resolution introduced by Rep. Rashida Tlaib and six progressive co-sponsors recognizing the Nakba, the ongoing ethnic cleansing campaign against Palestinians perpetrated by the founders of Israel and their descendants pursuing territorial conquest an...
Charles Booker—the progressive former Kentucky state lawmaker with a plan to tackle rampant inequality—cruised to victory in Tuesday’s U.S. Senate Democratic primary, setting up a November contest against two-term Republican incumbent Rand Paul in which the challenger is vowing to “make history.” “We’re going to b...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS), alongside the Somali national army (SNA), recaptured a strategic town Tuesday in southern Somalia, according to an official. Burundian peacekeepers serving under the AU mission, backed by Somali soldiers, retook El-Baraf in the Middle Shabelle province, ac...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of two French nationals for stoking unrest by participating in teacher protests. Iran’s state broadcaster showed a film about the duo’s arrest by intelligence sleuths and their activities in Iran, calling them “spies.” The pair were identified as Cecile Kohler, 37...
Fnideq, Morocco – AFP Morocco and Spain have reopened the land borders between the north African country and the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, two years after they were shut due to Covid restrictions and a major diplomatic row. The enclaves on the Mediterranean coast in northern Morocco have the European Union’s only land ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah and its allies lost majority in the 128-seat parliament following this weekend’s general elections, according to official results announced by the interior minister on Tuesday. The final election results announced by Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi showed that no party secured the 64 seats neces...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egypt on Tuesday called for restraint in Libya amid clashes between rival armed groups in the capital Tripoli. Clashes erupted in Tripoli between armed groups loyal to Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh and rival leader Fathi Bashagha, who was recently appointed as premier by the Tobruk-based parliament. Bashagha reached the ca...
