TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has ordered an investigation into a recent incident during a football match between Iran and Lebanon where women were barred from entering the stadium and pepper-sprayed. Speaking at a cabinet meeting in Tehran, Raisi ordered his interior minister to “thoroughly investigate” the matter and take “n...
ISTANBUL – The number of people fleeing Ukraine due to the war with Russia has reached 4 million, head of the UN refugee agency said. “Refugees from Ukraine are now 4 million, five weeks after the start of the Russian attack,” tweeted Filippo Grandi. “I have just arrived in Ukraine. In Lviv, I will discuss […]
ANKARA – South Korea has said that it has successfully test-fired a solid-fuel space rocket a week after North Korea’s inter-continental ballistic missile launch (ICBM). The test was conducted at Taean, 150 kilometers (around 93 miles) southwest of Seoul. “(The test) came at a very grave juncture in which North Korea has rece...
ISTANBUL – China has launched three new satellites into space to undertake scientific space environment surveys and model correction. The indigenously-built Long March-11 carrier rocket was blasted into space with the satellites from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, shortly entering their planned orbit. The three s...
JERUSALEM – Two Ukrainians were among five people killed in a shooting attack in central Israel. A police statement said that the two Ukrainian nationals were aged 23 and 33, but did not reveal their names. Police said the attacker was a 26-year-old Palestinian from Ya’bad village near Jenin in the occupied West Bank. Israeli […]
ISTANBUL – The Pakistani and Russian foreign ministers have separately met their Chinese counterpart Wang Yi . Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Sergey Lavrov are in China to attend the third meeting of the foreign ministers of Afghanistan’s neighboring countries due to take place this week. Wang received the Pakistani and Russian foreign ministe...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – Palestine has accused Israel of exploiting most territory of Area C in the occupied West Bank. “The Israeli occupation directly exploits 76% of the total area classified (C),” the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics said in a statement marking the 46th anniversary of the Land Day. Under the 1995 Oslo Accords be...
China’s largest city Shanghai, home to 28 million people and a major manufacturing hub, is in its third day of lockdown due to the latest COVID variant. Meanwhile, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has authorized a second booster of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna coronavirus vaccines for older people. On Tuesday, the agency said the [&hel...
On Tuesday, a Palestinian who opened fire killing five Israelis was shot dead near Tel Aviv. The attack brought the number of people killed in the past two weeks to 11, making it one of the deadliest periods in Israel in several years. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett warned of a “wave of murderous Arab […]
Authorities in Bahrain’s capital Manama shut down an Indian restaurant after it denied entry to a woman wearing the hijab. Video footage of restaurant staff barring a veiled woman from the restaurant in the Muslim-majority country went viral on social media causing outrage. On Friday, the friend of the woman in question explained what happened...
