ISTANBUL (AA) – Egypt’s Suez Canal Authority (SCA) has denied reports about contracting an Israeli company to manage its services. The denial came amid news circulated on social media platforms that Egypt had contracted an Israeli company to manage the waterway’s services through a 99-year concession contract. In a statement, SCA chief Osama R...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Health Ministry on Saturday accused Israel of denying cancer patients the right to medical treatment abroad. “Israel deprives 40 percent of cancer patients in Gaza of their right to medical treatment abroad,” Khaled Thabet, head of the ministry’s oncology department, told Anadolu. “Cancer patients in...
ARSAL, Lebanon (AA) – A snow spell is worsening the already tragic living conditions for thousands of Syrian refugees in northern Lebanon. There are around 80,000 Syrians living in refugee camps in the northern town of Arsal, along with 40,000 others on the outskirts of the town. Their living conditions in the camps have worsened […]
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP): Pakistan’s self-exiled former military ruler Pervez Musharraf, who became a key US ally during the “war on terror”, died in a Dubai hospital on Sunday aged 79 after a long illness. Musharraf seized power in a 1999 bloodless coup and was acting simultaneously as Pakistan’s army chief, chief exe...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AFP): Burkina Faso’s military leader has said that there has been no break in diplomatic relations with France, and denied that Russian Wagner mercenaries were in the country. Former colonial power France had special forces based in Ouagadougou which came under intense scrutiny as anti-French sentiment in the ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, has warned that Israel’s decision to expand the licensing of firearms for Israelis would lead to further violence against the Palestinians. “Plans by the Government of Israel to expedite and expand the licensing of firearms, with the stated int...
THE HAGUE (AA) – The Dutch government has announced that it will not appeal against a court order to pay compensation to relatives of civilians who died in an operation against the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Defense Ministry said in a statement that there would be no objection to the ruling that gave compensation to […]
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia’s president has resorted to intimidating the nation’s people, the head of a major labor union in the country said on Friday. “President Kais Saied chose the path of intimidating the people and calling them, directly or indirectly, to fight,” Secretary-General Noureddine Taboubi said a...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): A UN expert has called for reforms in Sudan’s security services and accountability, during a first visit to the country reeling from turmoil since a 2021 military power grab. Radhouane Nouicer’s visit comes more than a month after civilian and military factions agreed on an initial step in a two-phase politic...
Jakarta, Indonesia (AFP): Indonesia told major powers on Friday not to use Southeast Asia as a “proxy” for their rivalries at the start of two-day talks between regional foreign ministers, while also calling for unity and progress on the Myanmar crisis. Southeast Asia’s biggest economy is the chair of the 10-member Associatio...
