JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has summoned the UN envoy to the Middle East, Tor Wennesland, following his tweets expressing concern over the brutal killing of a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank. The Israeli Foreign Ministry said Wennesland was summoned to its headquarters for “clarification”. The move came after the UN envoy called ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian attorney general’s remark that the morality police has been “put to a standstill” has whipped up a storm, fueling speculation that the controversy-ridden force may have been disbanded amid month-long protests. Mohammad Jafar Montazeri said Saturday that the morality police force “has nothing ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – At least seven people have been killed and six others wounded in an explosion in Mazar-i Sharif city in northern Afghanistan. According to local officials, the roadside explosion took place near the Seyed Abad intersection in the third district of Mazar-i-Sharif and targeted a bus carrying oil company workers from the Haritaan...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Many shops were closed in major Iranian cities, including the capital Tehran, on Monday amid a nationwide strike. The strike came in response to a three-day shutdown call given by an anonymous group. The country has been rocked by sweeping protests triggered by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan’s ruling military council and political forces on Monday signed a framework agreement meant to resolve the country’s months-long crisis. The deal was signed by army chief Gen. Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan, the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) coalition, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and a number of rebel movemen...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The bodies of 13 Rohingya were found Monday on the roadside of a village in Myanmar, a rights group said. The bodies were recovered from Tabinshwehti Road in Barlar village in Yangon Region’s Hlegu Township and sent to a local hospital, said Nay San Lwin, coordinator of Free Rohingya Coalition, in […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The first edition of Abu Dhabi Space Debate has kicked off in the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Some 300 decision-makers and representatives of 47 international space institutions and agencies are attending the two-day event. The event focuses on three main topics: space sustainability, space accessibility and spac...
ANKARA (AA) – The trial for the Brussels attacks of 2016 which killed 32 people began on Monday. Six years after the attacks, 10 men accused of being members of the ISIS are on trial, one of them in absentia as he is believed to have been killed in Syria. Two attacks hit the Zaventem […]
AMSTERDAM (AA) – Pope John Paul II covered up abuse by priests decades before he reached the top position in the Catholic Chruch, says a Dutch investigative journalist. The Pope ignored the sexual abuse of minors by some priests under his administration in Krakow, Poland, where he was archbishop, Ekke Overbeek said. The news in […...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Australia is reportedly holding discussions to “compensate” victim families for its war crimes in Afghanistan. In this regard, Australian Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles has “received a number of briefings from officials about compensation.” Paying compensation to the Afghan victim families was one of the recommendations o...
