Tehran, Iran (AFP): Dozens of Iranians gathered Sunday outside the French embassy in Tehran to protest against cartoons of the Islamic republic’s supreme leader published by French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The magazine on Wednesday published caricatures of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in support of the months-long protests in Iran, spar...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Nigerian police in the Zamfara state on Sunday said its tactical operatives had intercepted rocket shells, anti-aircraft ammunition, and explosives. Police spokesman Muhammad Shehu told Anadolu Agency that the gunrunners in Saturday’s incident were suspected to be behind all the recovered weapons, including thr...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir instructed police Sunday to ban Palestinian flags from public spaces. “It cannot be that lawbreakers wave terrorist flags, incite and encourage terrorism, so I ordered the removal of flags supporting terrorism from the public space and to stop the incitement against Isra...
Bamako, Mali (AFP): Forty-six Ivorian soldiers detained in Mali since July arrived home late Saturday, according to an AFP reporter at the airport, a day after they were pardoned by the neighbouring country’s junta. The troops, whose detention triggered a bitter diplomatic row between the countries, were arrested on July 10, 2022, after ...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The final stage of Sudan’s political process is set to kick off on Sunday, according to the country’s trilateral mechanism body. In a statement, the Trilateral Mechanism said the final stage of the political process aims to reach “a final and just political agreement”. The Trilateral Mechanism comprises the African Union...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army has used drones capable of carrying gas canisters and bombs in attacks against Palestinians, according to an Israeli newspaper. The Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper, citing a senior military officer, said the army has developed these drones to be able to fire grenades and tear gas canisters. The officer, who spoke [...
DOUALA, Cameroon ( AA) – Col. Assimi Goita, Mali’s transitional president, has pardoned 49 Ivorian soldiers convicted of conspiracy and undermining state security, a government spokesman said late Friday. Three who were women were later released, while 46 soldiers were sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on Dec. 30. The three releas...
Ara, Israel (AFP): “The Israeli passport is the most despised in the world. It is a nationality that does not honour its bearer,” says Arab-Israeli Karim Younis, who was released after spending 40 years in prison for killing a soldier, and greeted by hundreds of supporters in his home village of Ara in northern Israel. […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s Defense Ministry said Thursday that the country would build a 4.6 km long wall around Jewish settlements along the Gaza border. In a statement, the ministry said that work on the project, aiming to protect the settlements from anti-tank missiles launched from Gaza, had already started. In recent years, Jewish settleme...
Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP): Mourners gathered Thursday in Iraqi Kurdistan for the politically charged funeral of activist Emine Kara, one of three Kurds killed in a December attack in Paris. Members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been waging a decades-long insurgency against Turkey, were among the dozens at the procession...
