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TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has strongly condemned the Israeli foreign minister’s recent remarks about “forming a united front” with Azerbaijan against Tehran, saying it will “not remain indifferent” to the “conspiracy”. In a statement, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said the remarks show...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has called for helping the people affected by last month’s earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria. Guardiola, 52, took part in the “shoulder-to-shoulder” fundraising campaign, organized by Türkiye’s Youth and Sports Ministry, the Turkish Football Federation, the Turkish Un...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Defying restrictions imposed by Israel, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from the occupied West Bank marched to the Al-Aqsa Mosque for the second Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. “About 250,000 worshipers offered Friday prayers at Al-Aqsa Mosque,” Sheikh Azzam al-Khatib, head of the Islamic Endowm...
MOSCOW (AA) – Baku said on Friday that the preliminary results of an investigation into a recent attack on an Azerbaijani diplomat point to Iranian involvement. Responding to Iranian allegations of Azerbaijani cooperation with Israel against Tehran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Aykhan Hajizade said it was Iran that was cooperating with oth...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): A Senegal court on Thursday handed a two-month suspended sentence to opposition leader Ousmane Sonko in a libel case. His lawyers say the sentence does not rule him out of the 2024 presidential election. The 48-year-old was found guilty of defaming Tourism Minister Mame Mbaye Niang, a member of President Macky Sall’...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – The Algerian ambassador to France resumed duties after several weeks of consultations with his government over a wanted activist. The Algerian Embassy in Paris said in a statement on Thursday that Said Moussi returned to his post in Paris and met with French Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary-General Anne-Marie...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus early on Friday. The slain officer was identified as Milad Heydari, an IRGC “military adviser” who the IRGC public relations division said was killed in a ̶...
Brussels, Belgium (AFP): NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Friday that Finland would formally become a member within days, as he congratulated its president on clearing the final obstacle to joining. “I look forward to raising Finland’s flag at NATO HQ in the coming days. Together we are stronger and safer,” Stoltenberg wrote ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Al-Maliki has welcomed Azerbaijan’s decision to open a diplomatic office in Ramallah soon. This came during a meeting at the headquarters of the Palestinian Foreign Ministry in Ramallah on Thursday with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov, according to a statemen...
NEW YORK (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken welcomed recent efforts to deescalate tensions between Israelis and Palestinians in a phone call Thursday with his Israeli counterpart. Blinken and Eli Cohen discussed matters relating to Iran, efforts to advance mutual interests and Israel’s further regional integration, according to ...
