Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisians on Saturday overwhelmingly boycotted an election for a new parliament which will have virtually no authority following a power grab by President Kais Saied in the birthplace of the Arab Spring. Electoral board president Farouk Bouasker said that by close of polls at 6:00 pm (1700 GMT), just 8.8 percent of [&hell...
Buenos Aires, Argentina (AFP): Watching football icon Lionel Messi inspire Argentina to World Cup glory on Sunday made the economic suffering engulfing the country “worth it,” according to ecstatic fans. Fireworks cracked, car horns sounded and fans draped in the national blue and white colors sang, danced and waved flags. An estim...
ANKARA (AA) – Qatar on Sunday renewed its denial of involvement in any corruption case involving people linked to the European Parliament, saying a Belgian investigation threatens to harm relations. Four people were arrested by Belgian authorities as part of an investigation into allegations that Doha lavished them with cash and gifts to influ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israel on Sunday deported Palestinian activist and lawyer Salah Hamouri from occupied East Jerusalem to France, according to a local NGO. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said Hamouri was sent to France although the legal procedures for his deportation were not yet completed. According to the NGO, an ...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AFP): A minister in Burkina Faso has called an allegation by Ghana’s president that it has invited Russian mercenaries “very serious”. Burkina had earlier called in Ghana’s ambassador in protest, the foreign ministry said, while recalling its own ambassador to Accra for consultations. Ghana...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan has imposed a temporary ban on popular social media platform TikTok amid violent protests over fuel price hikes. In a statement, the Public Security Directorate said the widely used social media platform was suspended as it was used “for glorifying hate speech and for inciting chaos, attacking law enforcement agenci...
NEW DELHI (AA) – At least 70 people have died since consuming illicitly brewed homemade liquor in the eastern Indian state of Bihar on Tuesday, according to unconfirmed reports. Saran Civil Surgeon Dr. Sagar Dulal Sinha confirmed that 30 people have died as a result of drinking spurious liquor in the Saran district. Saran has […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia has called for a swift investigation into the killing of an Irish peacekeeper in southern Lebanon. A soldier with the UN peace mission UNIFIL was killed and three others injured when their vehicle came under fire in southern Lebanon. Lebanese media said a problem occurred between local residents and a […]
Rabat, Morocco (AFP): France and Morocco announced Friday they were mending fences after months of tensions over visas, and said President Emmanuel Macron would visit the North African kingdom in early 2023. Speaking in Rabat alongside her Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna said it was time to “...
Paris, France (AFP): Hundreds took to the streets Friday in Iran’s restive southeast, footage shared by human rights groups showed, beginning a fourth month of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death. Protesters in Zahedan, the Sistan-Baluchistan provincial capital, chanted “Death to the dictator”, taking aim at supreme...
