On Monday, the White House announced it will convene a second global COVID-19 summit next month. A leading public health advocate urged U.S. President Joe Biden to “fight like hell” for congressional funding to combat the ongoing pandemic. The U.S., Belize, Germany, Indonesia and Senegal collectively are hosting the summit. They said the May 1...
On Monday, a Pakistani court sentenced six men to death and dozens more to prison terms ranging from two years to life for the slaying of a Sri Lankan factory manager. The December 3 attack in the city of Sialkot caused outrage when a vigilante mob lynched Priyantha Diyawadana, who was accused of blasphemy. Then-Prime […]
Sixteen Palestinian journalists are being held in Israeli prisons, an Arab human rights group said on Sunday. The Beirut-based Journalists’ Support Committee said eight journalists have already been slapped with jail terms by Israeli authorities. Four journalists are being held under Israel’s policy of administrative detention, while four othe...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Hundreds of Israeli settlers on Tuesday forced their way into Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem, according to a Palestinian agency. In a statement, the Jordan-run Islamic Waqf Department, which oversees holy sites in Jerusalem, said 622 settlers stormed the site in groups under heavy police protection and...
HAKKARI (AA): A Turkish soldier was killed during Turkiye’s newly launched cross-border operation in northern Iraq, the National Defense Ministry said late Monday. The ministry said in a statement that First Lieutenant Omer Delibas was injured in the Operation Claw-Lock area due to a blast from an improvised explosive device (IED). He succumbe...
A report released on Monday stated that CEOs of some of the country’s major corporations made 254 times more than their median employees in 2021, as executive bonuses and stock awards increased remarkably. According to the most recent edition of the Equilar 100, an annual analysis that examines executive pay at large U.S. corporations, m...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Tuesday summoned Swedish Ambassador Liselott Andersson to protest the burning of the Muslim holy book Quran in Sweden. A statement by the UAE Foreign Ministry said the envoy was summoned by Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem Al-Hashimy to convey the Gulf state’s protest agains...
ADEN, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s newly formed presidential council was sworn in Tuesday before parliament in the southern Aden city. Chairman of the council, Rashad al-Alimi, and seven other members took the oath before the House of Representatives in the temporary capital, Aden, a government source told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity beca...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi discussed recent violence in Israel and occupied West Bank, Palestine, the State Department said Tuesday. The diplomats had a telephone call Monday, said spokesman Ned Price. “The Secretary and Foreign Minister discussed the importanc...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Tuesday strongly condemned the burning of copies of the Muslim holy book Quran in Sweden. In a statement, OIC Secretary-General Hissein Brahim Taha denounced “the provocative actions of burning copies of the Holy Quran during anti-Muslim demonstrations, which have been taki...
