TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s judiciary chief has blamed “enemy agents” for clashes and fire at Tehran’s high-security Evin Prison, calling on security agencies to identify the main perpetrators. Mohsen Ejei made the remarks during his weekly meeting with senior judiciary officials, two days after the incident that has lef...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The secretary-general of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) has been released on bail after being arrested six days earlier on security-related charges. Abdalle Ahmed Mumin appeared before a court in the capital Mogadishu after the country’s attorney general’s office charged him with disobeying the law and “...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Young Palestinian men in the Shuafat refugee camp in East Jerusalem have kicked off a campaign to look like a Palestinian youth by shaving their heads to help him evade Israeli soldiers. Many Jerusalem youths took up this unique way to show solidarity with Udai Tamimi, 22, who has been accused of […]
GENEVA (AA) – Iranian security forces have reportedly killed 23 children, while hundreds more have been injured, detained, and tortured during recent peaceful protests, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said on Monday. The UN agency said it “strongly condemns the grave violations of the rights of the child that are taking […]...
KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AA) – Kuwait’s new government was sworn in on Monday before the country’s Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Speaking at the swearing-in ceremony, Sheikh Mishal said loyalty to the country and its ruler, respect of the constitution and laws and protecting freedoms are foundation of the government’s acti...
ISTANBUL (AA) – New Iraqi President Abdul Latif Rashid met Sunday with Iranian Ambassador Mohamad Kadhim al-Sadiq in the capital Baghdad. They dwelt on ties between Iraq and Iran and means of enhancing them, the state news agency INA reported. The two sides also underlined the importance of strengthening cooperation and coordination between Ba...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden will not meet Saudi Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman during the G20 summit in Indonesia next month, according to a senior official. “He has no plans to meet with the crown prince at the G20 summit,” Jake Sullivan, Biden’s national security adviser, told CNN’s Dana Bash on “Sta...
Muslim Americans have expressed concerns about the appointment to an interfaith council of a senior member of an organization associated with a Hindu supremacist group. Chandru Acharya has been appointed to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) faith-based religious council in order to advise the US government on domestic is...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A mob of a dozen people killed on Saturday two Rohingya community leaders in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, which houses over a million refugees, police said. The deceased have been identified as Maulvi Md. Yunus and Anwar Hossain, both of them camp leaders locally known as majhi. According to the Armed Police [...
LAHORE, Pakistan (AA) –Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has said the US president’s statement about his country being one of the most dangerous is “strange,” and that he has discussed it with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. He said this while addressing a press conference in Karachi. President Joe Biden...
