ISLAMABAD (AA) – Saudi Arabia has signed a $240 million loan agreement with Pakistan to support the Mohmand Dam project in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The agreement was signed at a ceremony in the capital Islamabad and attended by Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf bin Said Al-Malki and senior officials from the Ministry of Econo...
GAZA – ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas discussed Friday the latest Israeli aggression against Palestinians and Lebanon with a senior Russian official. The head of the movement’s international relations office, Moussa Abu Marzouk, talked with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov about “the Zionist aggression against the Gaza...
WASHINGTON (AA) – CIA Director Bill Burns paid an unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia, expressing frustration about Riyadh’s recent rapprochement with Iran, according to a report. Burns told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that the US felt “blindsided” by Riyadh’s rapprochement with Iran and Syria — Washington’s gl...
LONDON (AA) – Hundreds of demonstrators staged a protest Friday outside the Israeli Embassy in London against attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied East Jerusalem. The emergency protest was called for by various NGOs and Palestinian solidarity campaign groups, including Friends of Al Aqsa, Palestinian Forum in Britain and Stop the Wa...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Two Palestinians were injured Friday when Israeli soldiers opened fire during a raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, said officials. The Palestinians were shot with live rounds in the raid in Burkin, according to a statement by the Palestinian Ministry of Health. They were taken to the Jenin State Hospital […]
Tel Aviv, Israel (AFP): Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mobilised police and army reserves late Friday after one man was killed and five people were wounded in a car-ramming attack in central Tel Aviv. The Magen David Adom emergency service said in a statement a man aged about 30 had been declared dead and five […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli settlers on Friday vandalized Palestinian properties and closed the entrance to Ramallah city in the occupied West Bank. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu that settlers living in the settlement of Bet El closed the entrance leading to Ramallah and Al-Bireh cities using rocks and garbage containers, and prevente...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Pro-democracy activists in Sudan marched against the army and paramilitaries Thursday as the civilian opposition marked a key anniversary in the decades-old struggle against military rule with new protests. April 6 is a symbolic date for Sudan’s civilian opposition — the anniversary of uprisings in 1985 and 2...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday rejected “foreign diktats” from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which is in stalled talks with the heavily indebted country over a bailout package. “Regarding the IMF, foreign diktats that will lead to more poverty are unacceptable,” Saied told repor...
Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP): Two Israeli sisters were killed and their mother seriously wounded in a shooting in the occupied West Bank on Friday, hours after Israel bombarded Gaza and Lebanon. The broadening of the conflict since Israeli police stormed into Al-Aqsa Mosque drew appeals for restraint from the international community but Israel s...
