Muslim students in the Ethiopian capital Addis Abeba are frustrated after many schools prevented prayers and other activities during the month of Ramadan. After meeting with secondary school principals, the Addis Abeba City Education Bureau said education should be free from religious activities. Several reports this week showed many schools p...
ANKARA (AA) – Saudi Arabia has announced that it is returning its ambassador to Lebanon after a five-month break in ties. In an official statement, the Foreign Ministry said it would re-appoint Ambassador Waleed Bukhari to Beirut “in response to the calls and appeals of moderate national political forces in Lebanon.” It said ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden has applauded the “overwhelming vote” in the UN General Assembly to remove Russia from the UN Human Rights Council over the war in Ukraine. “This is a meaningful step by the international community further demonstrating how (President Vladimir) Putin’s war has made Russia an internatio...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli authorities on Friday enforced new restrictions on Palestinians reaching the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the West Bank. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that Israeli forces thoroughly checked Palestinians at the crossings leading to occupied Jerusalem and prevented many of them from entering the holy city. Palest...
ANKARA (AA) – Ukraine on Friday accused Moscow of trying to recruit mercenaries, militants, and terrorists to wage Russia’s war against its western neighbor. “They’re looking for mercenaries from all over the world. They are sending the militants from all the terrorist groups and private armies that were established by some o...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli media outlets quoted the Israeli General Security Service (Shin Bet) as saying on Friday morning that they killed a Palestinian youth who allegedly carried out an attack on Thursday in Tel Aviv city, killing two people and wounding nine others. The official Kan channel reported that the Palestinian youth who was ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – At least two people were killed in an attack on Thursday in the Israeli capital Tel Aviv, the country’s army radio announced. At least eight others were injured, according to multiple reports. One of the wounded is in critical condition and was rushed to a hospital, initial reports suggested. Israeli authorities la...
MOSCOW – Russia’s foreign minister has accused Ukraine of presenting a “disruptive” new peace proposal, flouting terms reached at a meeting in Istanbul last week. The new proposal was presented yesterday to the negotiating group, Sergey Lavrov said in a video statement posted on the Russian Foreign Ministry website. “Yesterday the Ukrain...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – The EU has called on Israel to take measures to protect the Palestinians, expressing its concern about the increasing violence of Israeli settlers in the West Bank. “Under IHL (international humanitarian law), IL (international law), authorities (of Israel) must take all necessary measures to protect Palestinians and thei...
GENEVA – The World Health Organization has said it has verified 91 attacks on health facilities in Ukraine since the war began on February 24. Ukraine is living in “dark days,” WHO Europe chief Hans Kluge said in a briefing from Lviv, a city near the border with Poland in western Ukraine, on the 43rd […]
