NEW DELHI (AA) – India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) no longer has any Muslim legislator in the parliament as the tenure of its last Muslim legislator- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi- who also served as the country’s Minority Affairs Ministry, ended on Thursday. Naqvi, 64, who was a member of the Rajya Sabha or [&hel...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has said that Israel has signed arms deals worth more than $3 billion with countries in the region since the signing of the ‘Abraham Accords’ for the normalization of ties in 2020 with Arab countries. Gantz said Israeli Defense Ministry personnel held about 150 meetings with ...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian authorities have frozen the financial assets of the head of Ennahda, Rached Ghannouchi. Ghannouchi heads the Tunisian opposition and also served as the speaker of the dissolved Parliament. Nine other people have also been included in the list of those whose assets have been frozen. In a statement, the Financial [...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has said that it will reopen its economic and trade office in Türkiye in August as relations have begun to improve between the two countries. “The reopening of the economic attaché reflects Israel’s commitment to deepening economic ties with Türkiye,” Israeli Economy Minister Orna Barbivai said in a statement. “We inten...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan’s army chief Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has issued a decree relieving the five civilian members of the ruling sovereign council of their duties. The decree, however, kept the five military members of the council and the three leaders of former rebel groups in their places, stopping short of a full […]
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – A Tunisian judge has summoned former Parliament Speaker Rached Ghannouchi for investigation into “money laundering” accusations. According to Radio Mosaique, Ghannouchi will be questioned regarding suspicious financial transactions within the “Namaa Tounes” charity. Ghannouchi, the leader of the progressive Is...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has rejected US claims that Tehran made new “extravagant demands” during indirect talks in Doha to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. Speaking during a joint press conference with his Qatari counterpart Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Tehran, Amir-Abdollahian said Iran’s dem...
NUKUS, Uzbekistan (AA) – Uzbekistan has announced that the situation in the protest-hit autonomous region of Karakalpakstan has been brought under control. In a statement issued in Nukus, the capital of Karakalpakstan, Hamidjan Dadabayev, the deputy commander of the Uzbekistan National Guard, said the situation in the region is “complete...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Five people were killed in protests Thursday demanding the reversal of the military takeover in Sudan, according to a local medical group. The fatalities occurred as security forces used violence against protesters in Omdurman, the Central Committee of the Sudanese Doctors said in a statement. It said dozens of dem...
MADRID (AA) – Türkiye, Finland and Sweden signed a memorandum Tuesday on the Nordic countries’ bids for NATO membership following four-way talks in Madrid. Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto and Sweden’s Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson met to discuss the issu...
