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ISTANBUL (AA) – The Iraqi government has voiced concern over a stalemate in talks aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear agreement. Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein met with the Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations for Political Affairs and Peacebuilding, Rosemary A. DiCarlo, and Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Na...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye summoned the Dutch ambassador in Ankara Joep Wijnands over “a vile attack” on a copy of the Muslim holy book in the Hague. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms the vile attack of an anti-Islamic person in The Hague, Netherlands, on January 22, targeting our holy book, the Qur’an,” the ...
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP): The national power grid was restored in Pakistan, the energy minister said on Tuesday, a day after a nationwide breakdown left most of the country’s 220 million people without electricity and caused tens of millions of dollars in industry losses. The outage started around 7:30 am (0230 GMT) on Monday, a failure...
NEW YORK (AA) – The UN’s aid chief visited Afghanistan on Monday to convey messages to the Taliban on the need to reverse policies banning women from public life, said a spokesman. The latest visit by Undersecretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths along with the President and Chief Executive Officer of Save the Children...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso has decided to end a military pact that allowed French troops in the country because it is in line with the transition government’s vision for the Burkinabe people to defend their country, government spokesman Jean-Emmanuel Ouedraogo said Monday. In 2018, Burkina Faso reached a military accord with France tha...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US said Monday that an extremist’s burning of a Quran in front of Türkiye’s Embassy in the Swedish capital Stockholm was “deeply disrespectful” but stopped short of condemning it. “Just as the Swedish prime minister said, burning books that are holy to many is a deeply disrespectful act,” US State Depart...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US announced new sanctions on Iran on Monday, targeting officials involved in the suppression of recent mass protests. The sanctions that the Treasury Department announced in coordination with the UK and the EU, target the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Cooperative Foundation and five of its board members, t...
AMSTERDAM (AA) – A far-right Dutch politician, and leader of the Islamophobic group Pegida, tore out pages from a copy of the Quran in The Hague, the administrative capital of the Netherlands, on Sunday. Edwin Wagensveld shared a video of his provocative act on Twitter which took place in front of the parliamentary building in […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Several parts of Pakistan remained without electricity even on Tuesday, following a major power breakdown that hit the South Asian nuclear country on Monday, virtually paralyzing the normal course of life. Addressing a press conference in the capital Islamabad on Tuesday, Energy Minister Khurram Dastagir claimed that t...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Burkina Faso’s military government has vowed to pursue the militants who kidnapped 27 women and 39 children earlier this month in the country’s Sahel region. The commitment came days after the army freed the group of women, who were kidnapped on Jan. 12-13 in Soum province near the town of Arbinda. […]
