UNITED NATIONS (AA) – Palestine’s UN Envoy Riyad Mansour labelled Israel’s incoming government likely to be led by Benjamin Netanyahu as “fascist” on Monday. “There will be fascists holding cabinet positions in the Israeli side,” Mansour told reporters. “The attacks against the Palestinian people...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Millions of people in Bangladesh lost their homes and livelihoods this year due to the effects of climate change, which is causing an unstoppable internal migration, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday. Over 7.1 million Bangladeshis were displaced by climate change in 2022, said the WHO, assessing the...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijan announced on Monday that it had transferred the bodies of 13 Armenian soldiers to Yerevan. “On Nov. 28 of this year, 13 bodies belonging to Armenian servicemen discovered as a result of the search operations in the area were examined with the participation of the employees of the Military Prosecutor’s Off...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Russia has “unilaterally postponed” nuclear disarmament talks that were slated to be held this week in Cairo, Egypt, the State Department said on Monday. The meeting of the New START Treaty’s Bilateral Consultative Commission was to begin on Tuesday in Egypt, but the Kremlin informed the Biden administration...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian judicial authorities on Monday questioned Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi over terror links accusations, according to his lawyer. “Ghannouchi was questioned Monday morning,” Mukhtar al-Jamai told Anadolu Agency. He said the questioning session had originally been scheduled for Sept. 21, but was postponed until N...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The president of Azerbaijan exchanged views with a senior US diplomat about the South Caucasus country’s normalization of ties with Armenia and negotiations for a peace treaty between them. “Views were exchanged . . . regarding the normalization of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan, and negotiations on ...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared that his country is determined to root out the Kurdistan nationalist PKK group, which according to the Turkish government also threatens the territorial integrity of Syria and Iraq. “We are determined to root out this ‘terrorist organization’, which poses a threat to the t...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia’s opposition National Salvation Front has called for the formation of a national salvation government to address the country’s economic and social problems. “Economic and social crises are aggravating day by day and for the past year and a half, there were no signs that these problems are coming to an [&hell...
KONYA, Türkiye (AA) – Just as relations between Türkiye and Egypt take shape, ties with Syria can follow the same path, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. “There is no room for hard feelings in politics,” Erdogan said at an event in the central Konya province. Referring to his recent meeting with his Egyptian counterpart [&hell...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US football federation briefly displayed Iran’s national flag without the emblem on social media ahead of the World Cup game between the two sides. The federation later restored Iran’s national flag with the emblem, saying “we wanted to show our support for the women in Iran with our graphic for 24 [&helli...
