JERUSALEM (AA): US Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides has said the Biden administration is making efforts to normalize relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia. In an interview to the Israeli i24 News channel, Nides said the administration is working to expand the Abraham Accords between Israel and Arab countries. In September 2020, the US bro...
ANKARA (AA): Black Sea grain deal, which was set to expire on May 18, has been extended for another two months, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday. “With the efforts of our country, the support of our Russian friends, and the contributions of our Ukrainian friends, it was decided to extend the Black […]
WASHINGTON (AA): The US condemned on Wednesday a deadly attack by “unknown assailants” on a convoy of American vehicles in Nigeria. “We do not yet know the motive for the attack,” US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement about the attack on the convoy that was carrying nine Nigerian nationals, five emplo...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA): Some 86 Palestinians were injured on Wednesday in clashes with the Israeli army during a raid into the city of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank. “The Palestine Red Crescent Society’s staff dealt with 86 injuries during clashes that broke out between Palestinians and the Israeli army in the vicinity of […...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): More than 400 people are dead in Myanmar’s Rakhine state from Cyclone Mocha, which made landfall Sunday on the coast between Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar district and Myanmar Kyaukpyu township, a rights group said Wednesday. The Arakan Rohingya National Alliance (ARNA) in a statement said that coastal villages in Rakhine’s ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Five Palestinians were injured on Tuesday in Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank, according to the Health Ministry. Israeli forces raided the Jenin refugee camp in the northern West Bank, triggering clashes with local residents, the Palestine Television station reported. Israeli forces besieged a house in...
ISTANBUL (AA): The People’s Alliance, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development (AK) Party and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), managed to secure a majority of seats in the Turkish parliament after Sunday’s presidential and parliamentary elections. According to unofficial results, the AK Party garne...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA): Sudanese army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Monday removed the country’s police chief, Lieutenant-General Anan Hamed Mohammed Omar. A military statement said that Omar was replaced by Lt. Gen. Khaled Hassan Mohiuddin. The move came amid continuing clashes between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Sudanes...
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said, with the army saying it returned fire after being shot at. “Saleh Mohamed Sabra, 22, was killed by live bullets during an Israeli attack in Nablus,” the ministry said, adding that anoth...
ANKARA (AA): Türkiye will hold a second-round runoff on May 28 to elect the president after no candidate won an outright majority in Sunday’s poll, the head of the nation’s election authority announced on Monday. The first round of voting ended with no candidate able to clear the required 50% threshold, but incumbent Turkish President [&...
