BERLIN (AA) – Germany said on Wednesday that it sees no reason to revive the stalled talks on the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. “From our point of view, there are currently no indications or reasons for a resumption of the Iran nuclear negotiations,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Christofer Burger told media representatives in Berlin. Germany has [&hel...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – More than 16,000 people have been displaced by inter-religious, ethnic and tribal violence in western Sudan, according to the United Nations. The violence first started last week when herders attacked a group of farmers in Amuri village, east of South Darfur. “Several villages were burned in Beilil locality i...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israel has placed more than 600 Palestinian minors under house arrest in East Jerusalem in 2022, according to a Palestinian agency on Tuesday. “Israel has widely used the policy of house arrest in Jerusalem this year,” the Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs said in a statement. “Israeli occupatio...
Lahore, Pakistan (AFP): Cyclists in Pakistan’s smog-smothered Lahore are enduring hazardous pollution levels in a campaign to get people to ditch their cars for cycles. Each week around 100 adults and children, some wearing masks or scarves wrapped around their mouths and noses, jump on their bikes to cycle around landmarks in the city o...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Miffed by vile Islamophobia from locals as well as apathy and inaction by local authorities, a human rights group in South Korea has appealed to the UN to help construct a mosque for the Muslim community. The appeal comes after local residents in the southeastern city of Daegu blocked the construction of […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli army forces detained 22 Palestinians in overnight raids carried out across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday. Most of the arrests took place in the town of Silwad, north of Ramallah, where 13 Palestinians were taken into custody. Israeli forces also raided the house of Qadura Fares, the head of [&hellip...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that members of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) are ready to cooperate in facing growing common challenges and security threats and resolving disagreements in the bloc. “We have to admit, unfortunately, that disagreements also arise between the member states of ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ukraine issued an official statement on Monday announcing its initiative to deprive Russia of its status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and to exclude it from the UN. “Ukraine calls on the member states of the UN to resume the application of the UN Charter in the context […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian aviation authorities on Monday ordered a Dubai-bound flight to land and forced off the family of a former footballer who has been supportive of protests in the country. Mahan Air Flight W563, which took off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport and was destined for Dubai, had among its passengers [...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s military intelligence does not consider Iran the number one threat to the country anymore, media reports said. Global challenges are the most important threats the country will face in 2023, according to the Hayom newspaper that said Iran is regarded as the second most serious threat. Iran is not the focal...