WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN special envoy for Yemen on Monday said he sees an “intensification of regional and international diplomatic activity” while urging the warring sides for a “shared vision” to avoid a return to a “full-blown conflict”. “I, therefore, urge the parties to make the most of the space for dialogue provided by […]...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Monday detained a foreign activist from the Dheisheh refugees camp, in the southern Bethlehem city of the occupied West Bank. The official Wafa news agency identified the activist as Italian named Stefania in her fifties. It added that she was detained from the home of Palestinian journalist...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye has criticized Sweden along with other European states over tolerating what it considers “a continuing terrorist’ presence.” The country’s president has said that the extradition of “terrorists” is necessary for the Nordic country to earn the right to enter NATO. “We’v...
PARIS (AA) – Nearly 12,000 people held a march Monday in the French city of Strasbourg to show solidarity with anti-government protesters in Iran. The demonstrators marched towards the European Parliament building chanting slogans and demanding that the European Union declare Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a “terror...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Leaders and activists of Bangladesh’s main opposition party said on Monday that a neutral caretaker government must be formed to conduct the country’s general elections, which are due to be held in December. As part of a series of protests, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) held a grand rally in the […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A Turkish university student whose internship application was rejected by a Swedish professor over the country’s pending NATO membership bid is still waiting for an official apology. Fatma Zehra S., a third-year undergraduate studying psychology at Istanbul’s Ibn Haldun University, was accepted by the EU’s Erasmus+ program for ...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libya’s 5+5 joint military committee convened for the first time in seven months on Sunday and discussed several issues, including the current cease-fire. The committee includes five members from the Tripoli-based national unity government and five from Khalifa Haftar’s forces. Maj. Gen. Khaled Mahjub, a leader in t...
ANKARA (AA) – Rescuers on Monday resumed searching for four people still missing after a plane carrying 68 passengers and four crew members crashed in Nepal. At least 68 people were killed on Sunday when a flight crashed near the city of Pokhara in central Nepal, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) said, in […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UK sanctioned Iran’s prosecutor general on Saturday following Iran’s execution of a British-Iranian national. Underlining how last year Iran stepped up its use of the death penalty, British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said in a statement that Mohammad Jafar Montazeri is one of the most powerful figure...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – The French ambassador to Libya on Saturday reiterated support for a compromise between the country’s two rival legislative chambers. This came during a meeting in the capital Tripoli between Mustafa Maharaj and Khaled al-Mishri, head of the High Council of State (HCS). According to a council statement, the French envoy re...
