LONDON (AA) – British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Monday was elected by Conservative Party members to lead her party and become the nation’s next prime minister. Truss, 46, got 81,326 votes to 60,399 votes for former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, 42. Turnout was 82.6%. Truss did not get the landslide many commentators […]...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Cairo on Monday for talks with Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi. The visit “comes as part of joint coordination between the Palestinian and Egyptian leaderships,” Ambassador Dia al-Louh said in statements cited by the state news agency Wafa. The two leaders will...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has five options in hand in case the US reaches a nuclear deal with Iran, according to an expert. Yonatan Freeman, a professor of political science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, told Anadolu Agency that Israel does not have any qualms about the US edging closer to a deal with […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh summoned Myanmar’s ambassador on Sunday — for the third time in two weeks — to protest against the violation of its airspace. Myanmar’s Ambassador in Dhaka U Aung Kyaw Moe was summoned to the State Guest House Padma in the capital Dhaka after two mortar shells fired by Myanmar’s forces […]...
BERLIN (AA) – Israel is “deeply concerned” about a possible nuclear agreement between world powers and Iran, its President Isaac Herzog said on Sunday. Speaking alongside German President Frank Walter Steinmeier in Berlin, Herzog said they are closely following the ongoing talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. “We’re extremely wor...
Madyan, Pakistan (AFP): Misery is mounting for millions trapped by the worst floods in Pakistan’s history, which have have submerged a third of Pakistan and claimed at least 1,300 lives. United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has called it “a monsoon on steroids” as he launched an international appeal on August 30 for $160 mil...
Paris, France (AFP): Rich carbon polluters should feel “moral pressure” to help fund climate-vulnerable nations wracked by weather extremes such as Pakistan, where monstrous flooding has caused devastation, diplomats and observers have said. Torrential monsoon rains have killed more than a thousand, left a third of Pakistan under w...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Amid reports of gunfights between the Myanmar army and a rebel group that have been ongoing for more than a week, some mortar shells again landed inside Bangladesh on Saturday. Two shells fell inside no man’s land in the northeastern district of Bandarban, according to official sources. However, they caused no [&...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least 20 civilians were killed in an attack in central Somalia by al-Shabaab on a convoy carrying food supplies, officials said on Saturday. The victims in the attack, which took place near the district of Mahas in the Hiran region, included drivers and passengers in the convoy, with the members […]
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has nominated Senegalese diplomat Abdoulaye Bathiliy as his personal envoy to Libya, a position which has been vacant since December 2021. ”I would like to inform you of my intention to appoint Mr. Abdoulaye Bathiliy as my Special Representative for Libya and H...
