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ANKARA (AA) – Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) has announced that oil exports through Türkiye’s Ceyhan pipeline would resume later in the day, following a pause of more than a week caused by a long-running international arbitration case between Iraq and Türkiye. Head of KRG Foreign Media Affairs, Lawk Ghafuri, said on...
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP): Hundreds of Bangladeshi firefighters were mobilised in the capital Dhaka on Tuesday to battle an inferno that raged through a popular clothing market and blanketed the city’s oldest neighbourhoods in black smoke. No casualties have been reported so far, but shop owners and fire officials told reporters that the B...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Senegal’s Livestock Ministry has reported an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu on a poultry farm in the village of Potou near the northwestern town of Louga. The disease has killed 500 birds at the farm in Potou, while some 1,229 bird deaths have so far been recorded at […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudanese authorities on Saturday reported the death of 14 workers in the collapse of a gold mine north of the country. The state news agency SUNA, citing a security official, said the bodies of four workers were recovered on Saturday from the collapsed mine in Wadi Halfa near Sudan’s border with […]
Karachi, Pakistan (AFP): At least 11 people were killed in a crowd crush in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi Friday as a Ramadan alms donation sparked a stampede in the inflation-hit nation, police said. Pakistan has been wracked by economic turmoil for months, with the rupee crumbling and staple food prices shooting up nearly 50 [&he...
BANTAKOKOUTA, Senegal (AFP): Mohamed Bayoh climbed into the deep, pitch-black hole, hoping to emerge with a nugget that would change his life. The 26-year-old Guinean is one of thousands of West Africans who have flocked to remote eastern Senegal in search of gold. The rush for the precious metal has dramatically transformed Bantakokouta, a to...
Canada (AA) – A new report says that while Canada’s tax department is ensnared in red tape making a comprehensive review impossible, it should provide training to end “unconscious” bias when dealing with Muslim charities. The Office of the Taxpayers’ Ombudsperson report found that bias creeps in unconsciously and training would “improve the CR...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The European Union (EU) has removed Pakistan from its list of High-Risk Third Countries after Islamabad got off the Financial Action Task Force’s (FATF) list of countries under increased monitoring, also known as the “grey list” last year, Pakistan’s Ministry of Commerce said on Wednesday. In a statement, the ministry welcomed...
ROME (AA) – Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani spoke by phone Tuesday with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken about political and economic developments in Tunisia. During the call, Tajani, who is also Italy’s deputy premier, underlined the importance of constant coordination between his government and the US regarding Tunisi...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon Deputy Prime Minister has warned of a “deep crisis” in the absence of economic reforms demanded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). In a statement, Saadeh al-Shami said Lebanon reached an agreement with the IMF a year ago, but only a few of the agreed-upon procedures were accomplished. The IMF […]...
