BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani expressed readiness Wednesday to resume oil exports to Türkiye. A meeting in Baghdad between Sudani and Türkiye’s Energy and Natural Resources Minister Alparslan Bayraktar discussed strengthening energy relations, according to a statement from the Iraqi Prime Minister̵...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordan announced Thursday that it will not sign a deal with Israel to exchange solar energy for desalinated water in light of Israel’s war against Hamas. “The energy for water deal was supposed to have been done last month, but we’re not going to sign it,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Al-Safadi [&hell...
NEW DELHI (AA) – India has acknowledged that Israel’s war against Palestine poses a geopolitical challenge to the India-Middle East-Europe Connectivity Corridor (IMEC) that had been unveiled in September. Addressing “Indo-Pacific Regional Dialogue” in the capital New Delhi, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said: “It (corr...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan is expected to receive the second tranche of a $3 billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the loaning agency’s Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva has said. “I expect an agreement of the review to come within this week,” Georgieva told Bloomberg Television in an inter...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The acting Afghan industry and commerce minister met Tuesday with Pakistan caretaker foreign minister in Islamabad amid tension between the two neighbors concerning the eviction of Afghan refugees. Nuruddin Azizi arrived Monday in Islamabad along with a delegation to participate in a meeting with Pakistan and Uzbekistan....
ANKARA (AA) – Hundreds of Australians prevented an Israeli cargo ship from docking at Sydney’s Port Botany, saying that the international company transports weapons to Israel. Protesters who gathered at the port on Saturday claimed that they had forced the Israeli ship to reschedule its arrival. Pro-Palestinian protesters waved Palestini...
London, United Kingdom – AFP UK trade union members on Friday blockaded a British military equipment maker in southeastern England, calling for a halt to Israel’s attacks in Gaza. Demonstrators brandished banners and placards reading “no business as usual” and “taxpayers have blood on their hands” outside th...
Cirata, Indonesia — AFPIndonesia has inaugurated a $100 million floating solar farm, the largest in Southeast Asia, as it seeks more opportunities to transition to green renewable energy. The Cirata floating solar farm, which is expected to generate enough electricity to power 50,000 households, is built on a 200-hectare (500-acre) res...
NEW YORK (AA) – The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) released a report Thursday revealing that 50% of the housing in Gaza was destroyed in one month as a result of the Israeli war on the Strip. Abdallah Al Dardari, Assistant Secretary-General and Director of the United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau for Arab State...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Struggling with a broken economy, the interim Taliban administration in Kabul is seeking international aid to manage the Afghan refugee influx from neighboring Pakistan. “We call on the international community (including) Muslim countries to help,” Taliban’s nominee to the UN, Suhail Shaheen, told reporters, pointing to the rus...
