BUENOS AIRES (AA) – Over 2,000 members of Paraguay’s Indigenous communities ended demonstrations in the capital Wednesday, agreeing to return to their areas after reaching an agreement with the government on various demands. Around 2,500 Indigenous people had mobilized in Asuncion since Monday, calling on the government to improve access...
ANKARA (AA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan met on Wednesday in the Kazakh capital Astana. Their meeting, which took place on the sidelines of the Ministerial Council meeting of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), focused on the implementation of trilateral agreements involv...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution condemning Russia’s illegal annexation of four regions of eastern Ukraine, with 143 states voting in favor. The move by the General Assembly came after the world body convened an emergency session Monday to discuss Moscow-backed referendums to annex Donetsk, Luh...
HEBRON, Palestine (AA) – Israeli authorities on Wednesday closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to mark the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. “Israel shut the mosque to Muslim worshippers for two days due to the Jewish holiday of Sukkot,” Nidal al-Jabari, the director of the Waqf Department in Hebron, said. He […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Hundreds of Israeli settlers forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday to mark the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The Jordan-run Islamic Waqf Department, which oversees holy sites in Jerusalem, said in a statement that 776 settlers had stormed the Islamic holy site since morning. Accor...
Nablus, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Violence is escalating in the occupied West Bank in the wake of relentless Israeli raids, crackdowns and demolitions. A second attack by Palestinians in retaliation to Israeli assaults has left an Israeli soldier dead. The Israeli army said the soldier, identified as 21-year-old Ido Baroukh, was killed wh...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Iraqi Parliament is set to hold a session on Thursday to elect the country’s new president, Speaker Mohamed al-Halbousi has announced in a statement. The statement said that Thursday’s session will have a “single item on the agenda — the election of the President of the Republic.” The move comes as […]...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Chad’s Prime Minister Albert Pahimi Padacke resigned on Tuesday to allow the formation of a new government, the presidency announced in a statement issued a day after military leader Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno was sworn in as transition president. Padacke was appointed transition prime minister last year after Deby, a...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – President Joe Biden has congratulated the leaders of Israel and Lebanon for having reached a “historic” deal to establish a permanent maritime boundary, ending a long-running dispute between both countries. The agreement “will provide for the development of energy fields for the benefit of both countries, se...
ISTANBUL (AA) – High level officials from the Council of Europe (CoE) and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have agreed to take concrete steps to combat rising anti-Muslim racism in Europe. Daniel Holtgen, CoE’s special representative on antisemitic, anti-Muslim and other forms of religious intolerance...
