ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Thousands of residents in northeastern Nigeria who took shelter in neighboring countries following attacks by the Boko Haram have returned to their homes, an official said on Sunday. Air Vice Marshall (retd) Lawal Alao, vice chairman of the Victims Support Fund (VSF), said in a statement that 5,704 people who fled [&helli...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has vowed to remain steadfast in resisting the decades-long Israeli occupation. In a televised speech at a ceremony in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Abbas said the Israeli aggression will be faced by expanding the popular and peaceful resistance and further action at the interna...
ANKARA (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken vowed to stand against Israeli settlements or annexation in the occupied West Bank with former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu set to return to power. “We will also continue to unequivocally oppose any acts that undermine the prospects of a two-state solution, including, but not ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – An Israeli court on Sunday rejected a petition to release Nael al-Barghouthi, the longest-serving Palestinian detainee in Israeli jails, according to a local NGO. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said the Ofer Military Court decided to maintain a life sentence against the Palestinian detainee citing a...
Abuja, Nigeria (AFP): West African leaders on Sunday told Mali’s ruling junta to release 46 Ivorian troops taken prisoner in July or face sanctions, officials said. “We ask the Malian authorities to release the Ivorian soldiers by January 1, 2023 at the latest,” Omar Alieu Touray, president of the Economic Community of West A...
Tehran, Iran (AFP): Iran has scrapped its morality police after more than two months of protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini following her arrest for allegedly violating the country’s strict female dress code, an official said Sunday. Women-led protests, labelled “riots” by the authorities, have swept Iran since the...
BETHLEHEM, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian was killed by Israeli forces on Monday in the occupied West Bank, authorities said. The Palestinian Health Ministry said in a statement that the Palestinian was shot dead with live bullets in the Dheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that Israeli forces stormed the refuge...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli President Isaac Herzog arrived in Bahrain on Sunday — his first state visit to the Gulf nation since establishing diplomatic relations in 2020. Herzog was welcomed upon arrival at the airport by Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Alzayani. Shortly after arrival, the Israeli president held talks with Bah...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Four Iranians accused of intelligence cooperation with Israel were executed on Sunday, less than a week after Iran’s apex court upheld their death penalty. Mizan News, affiliated with the country’s judiciary, announced that the sentences were carried out in the wee hours of the morning. The individuals wer...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The European Union has called for conducting an investigation into the killing of Palestinian civilians by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank. In a statement on Twitter on Saturday, the EU said Israeli forces appear to use excessive “lethal force”, citing that 10 Palestinians were killed by...
