Nablus, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said Saturday, in what the army described as a “car ramming attempt” near Nablus. Fawzi Mukhalifa, 18, “was killed by the occupation (Israeli) bullets in the town of Sebastia” late on Friday, th...
GENEVA (AA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) said Wednesday that more than 20 million children missed one or more vaccine doses against COVID -19 last year. Another 15 million children skipped vaccination altogether. WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said in Geneva that 4 million more children were vaccinated against COVID -19 in 20...
NEW YORK – The United Nations Security Council for the first time addressed the global implications of artificial intelligence (AI). U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that AI has the potential to cause “horrific levels of death and destruction.” He warned that it could “enable “a new level of authorit...
DAMASCUS, Syria – Residents of opposition-held enclaves in Syria have expressed concern at U.N. Security Council failure for extending the mechanism for delivering aid. The agreement, in place since 2014, allowed food, water and medicine to be delivered to the region without the Syrian government’s approval. Russia vetoed a nine-mo...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the West Bank city of Jenin on Wednesday to see the destruction caused by the recent brutal Israeli military onslaught. Abbas arrived in the city aboard a Jordanian helicopter from Ramallah city and visited the Jenin Martyrs Cemetery, where the bodies of Palestinians killed ...
TEHRAN, Iran – An Iranian court has sentenced rapper Toomaj Salehi to 6 years in prison for participating in protests and criticizing the government. Salehi had been arrested last October after taking part in protests that erupted in Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old Amini woman had died in police custody. The [&he...
WASHINGTON – From filing lawsuits to threatening disinformation researchers, Republicans are bracing up for the 2024 elections. Republicans have put pressure on researchers through a House subcommittee investigation as well. They have long alleged that major technology platforms unfairly target conservative votes. But research has produced li...
EDEN, Yemen (AA) – Yemen’s Houthi rebels have imposed a ban on Swedish goods in response to burning of the Muslims’ holy book, the Quran. Houthi Minister of Industry and Trade Muhammad Sharaf al-Mutahhar said Swedish goods would not be allowed into areas held by the group. Speaking to the Houthi-run Al-Masirah television stat...
ISTANBUL (AA): Azerbaijan on Sunday said that Armenia attempted to conduct reconnaissance flights over the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic and the Lachin region. “A quadcopter belonging to illegal Armenian armed groups (also) attempted to conduct reconnaissance flights over the positions of our units located in the direction of Tagaverd village...
LONDON (AA) – The shooting of a 17-year-old by police in a Paris suburb and subsequent protests raised concerns about institutional racism in France, experts say. The teenager, Nahel, was of Algerian and Moroccan descent. Salman Sayyid, a professor at the University of Leeds, said the shooting was a sign of institutional Islamophobia and racis...
