ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo was unanimously elected Sunday as the new chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). He was elected at the 61st ECOWAS summit in Ghana’s capital Accra to succeed Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo, who served two terms. “Happy t...
KIGALI, Rwanda/ACCRA, Ghana (AA) – Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) bloc on Sunday lifted economic and financial sanctions imposed on Mali with immediate effect. ECOWAS imposed the sanctions on Mali in January for delaying to restore democratic rule. Meeting at an ordinary summit of heads of state and governmen...
BEIJING (AA) – A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck northwestern China’s Xinjiang region early Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. The epicenter with a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) was recorded at 6.02 a.m. local time (2202GMT) in the county of Akqi on the border of the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian Attorney-General Akram al-Khatib has said that a US team will examine the bullet that killed trailblazing Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. “A US team has already arrived to conduct the forensic examination of the bullet at the US Embassy in Jerusalem,” al-Khatib said. He further elaborated that th...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A young Palestinian on Sunday succumbed to his injuries sustained from Israeli army fire in the occupied East Bank a day earlier, according to a local medic. Kamel Alawneh, 19, was shot in the abdomen by Israeli forces in the town of Jaba’ near the city of Jenin on Friday. “He, […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Indirect talks between Iran and the US to revive the 2015 nuclear deal ended in the Qatari capital Doha without a result, Iran’s semi-official Tasnim News reported. Tasnim, citing sources, said the talks mediated by the EU ended, for now, blaming the cessation of the talks on the US insistence on […]
ANKARA (AA) – Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will not run in the upcoming elections, his spokesperson said on Wednesday. Bennett’s decision has come ahead of voting on the final readings of a bill that proposes dissolving the Knesset and calling an early election. Right-wing Yamina Party leader Bennett will remain ...
LONDON (AA) – Health authorities in Argentina on Wednesday confirmed the country’s first case of the highly contagious omicron subvariant BA.5. The ANLIS/Malbrán Institute detected the presence of the subvariant in a person who had returned from an international trip. According to local daily Infobae, the case was detected after the anal...
Idlib, Syria – (AFP) A US drone strike in northwestern Syria killed a Yemeni leader of a local extremist group affiliated to Al-Qaeda, the US military and a Syrian war monitor said. The strike, carried out on Monday just before midnight (2100 GMT) on the eastern edge of the city of Idlib, took out a […]
ANKARA (AA) – A Turkish soldier was killed in northern Iraq where the Turkish army launched Operation Claw-Lock to rid the area of terror elements, the National Defense Ministry has said. Abdullah Bayram was killed after PKK fighters opened fire in the operation zone, according to the ministry. The ministry expressed condolences to Bayra...
