ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan on Thursday said that his country’s deal with Iran is based on the principle of non-intervention in the affairs of other countries. Bin Farhan made the statement in his speech at the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Organization of Islamic Coo...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The United Nations Security Council unanimously extended on Thursday the mandate for its assistance mission in Afghanistan for a year. The resolution extends the mandate of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) until March 17, 2024. The resolution calls on all relevant Afghan political actors and stakehol...
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran’s top security official in a meeting with his Emirati counterpart on Thursday said cooperation and convergence must replace divergence and hostility in the Persian Gulf region. Ali Shamkhani, who heads Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), arrived in Abu Dhabi on Thursday at the invitation of Sheikh Ta...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – A UN official said on Thursday that the situation is “absolutely apocalyptic” in some areas of the quake-hit Türkiye and the needs are “tremendous,” calling on the international community to continue to provide support. Nine million people were directly affected by the earthquakes and are goi...
JENIN, Palestine (AA) – Three Palestinians were shot dead by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. “Three martyrs, shot dead by the Israeli army in Jenin,” the ministry said. Witnesses told Anadolu that Israeli forces raided the city of Jenin and opened fire on two Palestinians. Ten...
VIENNA (AA) – Approximately 2.5 tons of natural uranium stored in a site in Libya has gone missing, UN nuclear inspectors said. Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the organization’s member states that inspectors reported that 10 drums containing uranium ore concentrate have gone missing. “The l...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan Army said on Thursday that eight militants were killed in a military operation in the northwestern South Waziristan tribal region, adding that two children were also killed during the exchange of fire with the terrorists. The operation was carried out on the basis of a tip in the remote Zinghara […]
Teknaf, Bangladesh (AFP): Myanmar officials met with Rohingya refugees Wednesday in what Bangladeshi authorities said was the revival of a long-stalled effort to return the stateless minority to their homeland. Bangladesh is home to around a million Rohingya, most of whom fled a 2017 military crackdown in neighbouring Myanmar now subject to a ...
Paris, France (AFP): Iranian authorities on Wednesday released activist and journalist Sepideh Gholian after over four years in prison, she announced on her social media accounts. Gholian, 28, one of the most prominent women held in Iran and seen as a political prisoner by activists, was first detained in 2018 after reporting on a labour [&hel...
Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP): Israel’s army on Wednesday announced it killed a suspect wearing an explosive belt in the country’s north earlier this week, suggesting the possible involvement of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement. “We are examining a possibility of the Hezbollah” of being involved with the suspected attack...
