ISTANBUL (AA/AFP) – Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz left the hospital one week after completing his treatment plan, a Saudi Royal Court statement said on Sunday. The king, 86, was “discharged today … from King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah after having successfully conducted medical tests and completed the prescribed treatment pla...
SANAA, Yemen (AA/AFP) – The first commercial flight in six years left Houthi-held Sanaa Airport on Monday to the Jordanian capital, Amman. An airport source said 130 passengers were aboard the plane of flag carrier Yemenia, mostly patients seeking treatment in Jordan. “This is the first commercial flight to take off from Sanaa Airport in [&hel...
Beirut, Lebanon – AFP: The results of Lebanon’s first elections since multiple crises ravaged the country were expected Monday, with opposition groups hoping for modest gains. According to provisional turnout figures, 41 percent of Lebanon’s 3.9 million registered voters cast a ballot Sunday in 12 hours of polling that saw se...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian group Hamas has called for “resisting” Israeli plans to build more than 4,000 settlement units in the occupied West Bank. Last week, Israeli authorities approved the construction of more than 4,000 settlement units, in a move that drew wide condemnations from several countries around the world. In a stat...
As workers across the U.S. attempt to unionize and walk off the job over brutal conditions and starvation wages, an analysis released Sunday found that the median pay package of top U.S. CEOs jumped to $14.7 million in 2021—the sixth consecutive record-breaking year for executive compensation. According to the Wall Street Journal‘s revie...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Foreign Ministry has condemned an Israeli court decision to approve a cable car project in the occupied East Jerusalem. A ministry statement termed the cable car project as “an integral part of Israel’s Judaization campaign in Jerusalem with a view to eroding its Palestinian, Islamic and Christian ide...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians staged a rally in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to commemorate the Nakba Day, which marks the creation of the state of Israel in historical Palestine. Observed on May 15 annually, the Nakba Day, or the Catastrophe Day, marks the 1948 forced expulsion of nearly 800,000 Palestinians from their […]
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye has killed 10 more PKK fighters in northern Iraq, the Turkish National Defense Ministry reported on Sunday. “We continue to put locks on the nests of terror,” the ministry said on Twitter. The PKK men were killed by Turkish forces under the country’s Operation Claw-Lock, raising the total to 95. Th...
BERLIN (AA) – NATO is discussing Turkiye’s concerns on Finland and Sweden’s expected application to join the alliance, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Sunday. Noting that he discussed the issue with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu during an informal NATO meeting in Berlin, Blinken underlined that NATO i...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye on Sunday condemned an attack in Afghanistan against a staff member of a primary school run by Turkish Maarif Foundation. “We strongly condemn this heinous attack targeting an official of Turkish Maarif Schools which have significant contributions to education in Afghanistan and hope that the perpetrators are ...
