UNITED NATIONS (AA): The UN warned Wednesday of a funding crisis for Palestinians which might disrupt provision of basic services and emergency food assistance. ”Without new funding, World Food Program will suspend cash assistance to some 200,000 Palestinians next week,” Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor We...
RABAT, Morocco (AA): Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) signed a memorandum of understanding with the International University of Rabat in the field of artificial intelligence and aeronautics research, according to the Israeli liaison office on Wednesday. The deal aims to establish a center of excellence in artificial intelligence and aeronauti...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Fighting had eased but not stopped in Sudan on Wednesday, the second full day of a ceasefire that has raised cautious hopes among beleaguered civilians that aid corridors and escape routes will open soon. Sporadic air strikes and artillery fire have still echoed across the capital, residents told AFP, but US and [&hellip...
Nilin, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli troops on Tuesday demolished the West Bank home of a Palestinian who was killed after allegedly carrying out a deadly shooting in Tel Aviv in March. Mutaz Khawaja was accused by Israel of carrying out a shooting attack on March 9, 2023, in Dizengoff Street, Tel Aviv. Khawaja, 23, was […]
ISTANBUL (AA): Armenia’s prime minister said on Monday that Yerevan is ready to recognize “Nagorno-Karabakh” as part of Azerbaijan, provided that the security of the Armenian population in the region was ensured. “Armenia recognizes Azerbaijan’s 86,600 square kilometers (33,436 square miles) assuming that Azerbaijan is willing to recogni...
Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP): Three Palestinian fighters were killed in an overnight Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian sources. In a statement Monday, the Palestinian health ministry identified the three men killed in the Balata refugee camp in Nablus as Muhammad Abu Zaytoun (32), Fathi Abu Rizk (30) and Abdul...
ANKARA (AA): A Ukrainian official on Sunday said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “denied” that Russian forces had captured the strategic city of Bakhmut, clarifying a statement wrongly attributed to him ahead of a meeting with his US counterpart. Presidential Press Secretary Serhii Nykyforov wrote on Facebook that Zelenskyy’s r...
JERUSALEM (AA): Israeli Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir on Sunday entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. Ben-Gvir entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque’s Haram al-Sharif area early in the morning with special guards and under the protection of the Israeli forces. In his video message from the courtyard of Al-Aq...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): Sirajul Haq, the head of Pakistan’s Jama’at-e-Islami (JI), a major religious political party, on Friday escaped a “suicide attack” that targeted his convoy in southwestern Balochistan’s Zhob district. Ameerul Azim, the party’s secretary general, said Haq, who was visiting Zhob to address ...
Paris, France (AFP): Iran on Friday executed three men convicted of killing security force members during protests triggered by Mahsa Amini’s death last year, the judiciary said, drawing condemnation from rights groups. Majid Kazemi, Saleh Mirhashemi and Saeed Yaghoubi were found guilty of “moharebeh” — or waging “...
