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ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistani President Arif Alvi on Friday announced elections in Punjab, the country’s largest province, on April 30. The development came after a long political impasse which saw the country’s Supreme Court ordering elections in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces within 90 days. “The ECP (Election C...
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (AFP): Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak was acquitted of an audit tampering charge, a judge said Friday, but will continue to serve his 12-year prison term from another case. High Court judge Mohamed Zaini Mazlan said state prosecutors failed to provide sufficient evidence to prove their case that Najib tamper...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – The next round of dialogue for normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo will be held in North Macedonia later this month, the EU’s special envoy has said. Talks will be held in the southwestern tourist hub of Ohrid, according to Miroslav Lajcak, the EU special representative for Serbia-Kosovo dialogue....
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US president Joe Biden’s administration has approved its ninth arms sale package worth around $619 million to Taiwan, which the self-ruled island said will help “boost the combat readiness” of its air force. The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency said the State Department has made a “determination approving a poss...
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AA) – Following uproar within and outside the country, Iraq has retracted its decision to limit the use of the Turkmen language in its northern Kirkuk province. Iraq’s Prime Minister Shia al-Sudani has directed authorities to ensure that Turkmen remains part of the languages used for official correspondence in Kirkuk, along with...
Tehran, Iran (AFP): Iranian authorities arrested four people Thursday in connection with an assault on a woman outside a girls’ school targeted in a wave of poisoning attacks, a news agency said. Hundreds of cases of respiratory distress have been reported in the past three months among schoolgirls in what one government official said co...
Baghdad, Iraq (AFP): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for the swift repatriation of foreigners held in Syria’s infamous Al-Hol camp. The sprawling and overcrowded Kurdish-run Al-Hol camp in northern Syria is home to more than 50,000 people, including family members of suspected Islamic State group militants as wel...
Turmus Ayya, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Wielding long sticks and with their faces wrapped in Palestinian chequered keffiyeh scarves, young men set out on a night patrol to guard their village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Each night, the team gathers at Turmus Ayya in the north of the West Bank, ready to raise the alarm […]
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli troops shot dead a 15-year-old Palestinian and critically wounded another child in the occupied West Bank Thursday, the Palestinian health ministry said. Violence flared in the northern West Bank town of Azzun when troops arrived to search suspects after fireworks were launched at Israeli vehicl...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) — Hundreds of schoolgirls have been hospitalized in different cities across Iran since November last year in what has been described as a wave of a mysterious illness. Though the exact number of students affected by the poisoning is yet unknown, a senior lawmaker on Wednesday put the figure tentatively at “nearly [&hell...
