DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Mohamed Salah, a senior official of the Qatar Red Crescent, has said they are seeking funding to initiate reconstruction activity in the earthquake-hit zone of Türkiye and Syria. In an interview, Salah stressed the need for concerted efforts by the international community to mitigate the effects of the earthquake. He s...
ISTANBUL (AA) – EU residents remain in favor of Ukraine, as 91% approve providing humanitarian support to Kyiv, a Eurobarometer survey said just a day before Russia’s war marks its first year. The survey found that 91% of respondents agree with the provision of humanitarian support to Ukraine, while 88% are in favor of the [&hellip...
Aleppo, Syria (AFP): Sitting by a bed strewn with rubble in Syria’s second biggest city, Umm Mounir refuses to leave her home even though the deadly earthquake has torn a gaping hole into the room. Aleppo, once a major commercial hub, had already been battered by over a decade of war when the 7.8-magnitude quake […]
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): A prominent rights group has accused Tunisian President Kais Saied of “racism and hate speech” after he vowed to crack down on sub-Saharan African migrants. Saied, who has seized almost total power since a dramatic July 2021 move against parliament, had urged his national security council to take “urgent...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russians living in Europe say their lives changed after February 24, 2022, when Russia launched a “special operation” in Ukraine. Writer and historian Viktoria Prozorova-Thomas, who has been living in France for nearly a quarter-century, said that the first thing that changed was the news. “From every TV and rad...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijan has said that it will not hold talks with those who present themselves as representatives of the Armenian population living in Karabakh but are, in fact, from outside the region. “The Azerbaijani side declared that it is ready to hold a dialogue with the representatives who have the right to represent […...
Damascus, Syria (AFP): More than 200 planeloads of aid has been flown to government-held parts of Syria since the February 6 earthquake, nearly half from the United Arab Emirates, an official said Wednesday. The aid has come mostly from allies of President Bashar al-Assad’s government since the 7.8-magnitude quake struck the war-torn cou...
Kano, Nigeria (AFP): When shoe salesman Haruna Abubakar voted for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015 and again in 2019, he was one of more than a million Nigerians backing the former army chief in his stronghold of northern Kano State. Home to Nigeria’s second largest city and the economic heart of the country’s Muslim north, [&hel...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel said Thursday that the Omani authorities had agreed to allow Israeli civil flights to use the Gulf country’s airspace. A Foreign Ministry statement said the move came after months of talks with Oman as flying through the Omani airspace will shorten the duration of the Israeli flights to Asian destinations by […]...
Baghdad, Iraq (AFP): Iran’s top diplomat Hossein Amir-Abdollahian held talks with neighbouring ally Iraq Wednesday to discuss stalled dialogue with arch-rival Saudi Arabia to ease regional tensions, as well as on border security. Iraq has taken a key role as a mediator between Iran and Saudi Arabia since 2021, after Riyadh broke off dipl...
