GENEVA (AA): The UN human rights chief on Tuesday decried violence in the occupied West Bank and Israel. “The recent operation in the Occupied West Bank and car ramming attack in Tel Aviv worryingly underscore an all too familiar pattern of events: that violence only begets more violence,” Volker Turk said in a statement. “Th...
Jenin, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israel pushed on for a second day Tuesday with its biggest military operation in years in the occupied West Bank, which left 10 Palestinians dead and forced thousands to flee their homes. The raid that began early on Monday targeted Jenin and employed armoured vehicles, army bulldozers and drone strikes. O...
ISTANBUL (AA): Jordan and Egypt condemned Israeli military operation in the Palestinian city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank on Monday. Nine Palestinians were killed by Israel in the West Bank early Monday, including eight in Jenin, according to the Health Ministry. At least 50 others were injured. In a statement, Jordanian Foreign Ministry...
GENEVA (AA) – The Swedish government wants to prevent people from entering the country to commit crimes. The Swedish Foreign Ministry said the government had decided to reintroduce border controls in May. “In May this year, the Government decided to reintroduce border controls. We were clear about the reasons for this: it was prima...
JERUSALEM (AA): Israel government has approved plans for more than 5,700 illegal Jewish residences in the occupied West Bank, raising the total this year to a record of over 13,000. A Defense Ministry planning committee on West Bank settlement construction gave the green light for building around 5,700 new residences in six months, while retro...
Moscow, Russia (AFP): Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has said that long-standing tensions between Moscow’s army and the Wagner mercenary group, which staged a mutiny in Russia, had been mismanaged. Lukashenko was speaking three days after he brokered a deal to end the rebellion that rattled his Russian ally Vladimir Putin. The...
LONDON – A new report released Monday shows that fossil fuels still accounted for 82% of global energy consumption in 2022. While renewable energy consumption has increased by 13%, fossil fuels are still the main component of energy supply. The report, published by the Energy Institute, noted that despite increase in consumption of clean...
MOSCOW / TEHRAN, Iran (AA): Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the armed rebellion of the Wagner group in phone talks with the Qatari emir and Iranian president. In a statement on its website, the Kremlin said Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani supported the Russian leadership against the rebellion during the phone talk with [...
Vilnius, Lithuania (AFP): NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has said the weekend mutiny by mercenary troops in Russia has shown that President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was a “mistake”. “We are monitoring the situation in Russia. The events over the weekend are an internal Russian matter, and yet another demonstrat...
Beijing, China (AFP): A security crisis in Russia has compounded fears in China that its strategic partner is not as stable as before, analysts say. China has emerged as Russia’s most important ally since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022. During a March summit in Moscow, presidents Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin declared that their...
