ANKARA (AA) – The French parliament adjourned its sitting on Thursday after Black lawmaker Carlos Martens Bilongo was yelled at to go back to Africa by a member of a far-right party. Bilongo, a member of the left-wing France Insoumise party, was addressing the chamber when the far-right member yelled, “Go back to Africa!,” th...
ISLAMABAD/KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Supporters of Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan clashed with police in many cities of the country on Friday as they continued to protest the attempted assassination on their leader in Wazirabad district of northeastern Punjab province. There have been reports of arrests of Pakistan Tehreek-e-I...
Wazirabad, Pakistan (AFP): Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan will be discharged from hospital soon, a lawmaker of his party said on Friday. “The doctors are allowing him to move … He is feeling perfectly well,” Seemi Bokhari, a lawmaker with Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party told AFP. She said after vi...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Benjamin Netanyahu’s right-wing bloc secured an outright majority in parliament, according to final election results on Thursday, winning a decisive victory in Tuesday’s election. Netanyahu’s camp won 64 seats versus 51 seats of the current government led by Yair Lapid in the 120-seat parliament. Netanyahu’s Likud party ...
LONDON (AA) – Britain’s new government led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday ruled out moving the UK Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The idea of such a move was voiced during former Prime Minister Liz Truss’s Tory leadership contest and a review into the matter was ordered by her after […]
Thousands of activists from Bangladesh’s main political opposition parties protested in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday. They demanded all cases against former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia be withdrawn. Demonstrators demanded Zia be allowed to run in general elections next year. Leaders and supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ur...
LONDON (AA) – Migrants held in the Manston migrant center in Britain are so desperate with the conditions that they are now sending out messages of help. A young girl threw a bottle containing a letter asking for help for pregnant women and sick detainees held in the camp for more than 30 days. The […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has “strongly” condemned a gun attack on former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, calling on the parties in the South Asian nation to remain peaceful. “United States strongly condemns the attack on Imran Khan and the supporters, and hopes for the swift recovery of all who are injured,” ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh paid a visit Thursday to Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank and was escorted by 30 foreign ambassadors and consuls after the Israeli army lifted a 21-day closure of the city. “We are in Nablus, accompanied by 30 ambassadors from around the world, to stress an [&hel...
BERLIN (AA) – The European Union can only be completed with the accession of Western Balkan countries into the bloc, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said. Addressing the Western Balkans Summit in Berlin on Thursday, Scholz reaffirmed Germany’s strong support to the EU membership bids of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Monteneg...
