WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN secretary general on Thursday warned the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan has deteriorated over the past months and appealed for “unconditional” $4.4 billion in aid for the war-stricken country. “Together with our partners, we aim to reach 22 million people with food, water, healthcare, protectio...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli raid in the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. A ministry statement said the two youths aged 17 and 23 were gunned down when Israeli forces raided the city. Fifteen other Palestinians were injured, including three seriously, [&...
DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – At least eight Malian soldiers were killed in an ambush in the Bandiagara region, the country’s military announced on Wednesday. The Malian army said in a statement that the soldiers patrolling between the Songoiba and Yaokanda districts in the Bandiagara region were ambushed by unidentified persons. Mali has been b...
Ottawa, Canada – AFP Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Wednesday with an Indigenous community that recently identified 93 graves at a former residential school, part of a series of similar discoveries that shocked the country. His visit to the Williams Lake First Nation in British Columbia came just days after a delegation spoke...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Sudan’s de facto leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Wednesday started his first official visit to Egypt since last year’s military coup. Burhan, greeted on arrival by Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a ceremony broadcast live on state television, was accompanied by the head of general i...
Amman, Jordan – AFP Jordan’s King Abdullah II on Wednesday condemned “violence in all its forms” in a meeting with visiting Israeli President Isaac Herzog, following a spate of deadly attacks in the Jewish state. A total of 11 people have been killed in three attacks in the space of a week in Israel, the […]
Doha, Qatar – AFP Qatar on Wednesday opened one of the world’s biggest sports museums with artefacts from some of the most famous Olympic heroes. The 19,000 square metre 3-2-1 Museum Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum, next to one of the stadiums to be used in this year’s World Cup, has taken more than 15 […]
Algiers, Algeria – AFP Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is having a “deadly” impact on the Arab world, particularly through spiralling wheat prices, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Algiers Wednesday. He was speaking on the final leg of a trip that began with an unprecedented summit in an Israeli kibbutz, attend...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP More than 100 members of Tunisia’s suspended parliament defied President Kais Saied on Wednesday, holding an online session in which they voted to roll back his July power grab. Saied — elected in 2019 on public anger against the political class — on July 25 last year sacked the government, froze [&...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Biden told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday that the US intends to provide Ukraine with $500 million in direct budgetary aid, according to the White House. Biden and Zelenskyy spoke during a telephone call about the ongoing work by the US and its allies to deliver military, economic and hum...
