BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah on Tuesday condemned cartoons ridiculing Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei published by Charlie Hebdo magazine, calling on France to punish the satirical weekly. In a statement, Hezbollah termed the French caricatures of the Iranian leader an “ugly act”. The Lebanese group called on the French g...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s parliament on Tuesday passed the first reading of a bill to extend the “emergency regulations” for settlers living in settlements in the occupied West Bank. According to the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) website, the bill was passed with 58-13 votes of the 120-member house. It will now be...
BERLIN (AA) – A German politician has caused outrage with a racist video he published on social media. Thomas Bäppler-Wolf, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from the state of Hesse who has been a councilor for the city of Frankfurt since July 2016, commented on riots that broke out on […]
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The United Nations has extended a resolution that allows the use of the Bab al-Hawa border crossing through Türkiye to deliver humanitarian aid into northwestern Syria, the only remaining available route into the besieged region. The long-running aid operation has been in place since 2014. The 15-member Security Cou...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Indonesian President Joko Widodo and Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim discussed the rivalry between the US and China as well as regional issues on Monday. Widodo hosted Anwar at Bogor presidential palace in Indonesian capital Jakarta in what was the Malaysian premier’s first overseas trip since being inaugurated last Nove...
AL-HASAKAH, Syria (AA) – US forces have strengthened their presence in the areas controlled by the Kurdish nationalist groups YPG/PKK in northeastern Syria. More than 100 vehicles headed to the US military bases in Al-Hasakah province in the past three days only, sources revealed. The vehicles came from Iraq in several convoys, comprising mili...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has accused Israel of seeking to undermine the Palestinian Authority by deducting money belonging to Palestine. In statements during a Cabinet meeting in Ramallah city, Shtayyeh said the Israeli acts of “piracy, looting, and vengeance” will not discourage...
Tehran, Iran (AFP): Iran has sentenced to death three more people accused of killing members of the security forces during protests triggered by Mahsa Amini’s custodial death. Iran has been rocked by civil unrest since the September 16 death in custody of Kurdish Iranian Amini, 22, following her arrest for allegedly violating Iran’...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia will boost its investments in Pakistan to $10 billion and raise its deposits in Pakistan’s central bank to $5 billion, the official media has reported. According to a statement run via the state-run Saudi Press Agency, Saudi Arabia is studying augmenting investments and deposit in Pakistan. “This ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Myanmar junta government imprisoned 112 Rohingya, including children, for entering the country “without any legal documents,” according to the local media. A local court in the Bogale township in the southern Ayeyarwady region sentenced 112 persons, including 12 children and 47 women on January 6, the daily Global...
