BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanese group Hezbollah warned Sunday that Israeli gas drilling vessels in the disputed Karish field are within the range of its missiles. The Hezbollah-affiliated Al-Manar TV released a video showing a naval missile being prepared for firing along with a text reading “playing with time is useless.” The clip...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has said that it will accelerate the establishment of a joint industrial zone with Jordan. “This is an initiative that will increase employment to both countries, will advance our economic and diplomatic relations, and will enhance the peace and friendship between our two countries,” Prime Minister Yair Lapid told a Cab...
RIYADH (AA) – Saudi Arabia has reiterated that it will not change its firm position on the Palestinian issue, despite its decision to open its airspace to all international aircraft, including those from Israel. This was stated by Mohamed al-Atiq, the acting charge d’affaires of the Saudi Arabia’s permanent delegation to the UN, during a [&hel...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has conveyed to the interim administration in Kabul that Beijing supports extending the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) to Afghanistan. “China hopes to push the alignment of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with the development strategies of Afghanistan,” China’s top diplomat Wang Yi told Afghan interim Fo...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Algeria has resumed commercial operations with Spain after Algerian Banks Association announced the suspension of a decision that had frozen trade exchanges with Spain. Banking institutions operating in Algeria received a new directive earlier on July 28 stating that the decision to “stop any commercial operations...
BEIRUT (AA) – A Syrian ship carrying stolen grain from Ukraine anchored in Lebanon’s Tripoli Port, a Lebanese minister has said. “The Ministry of Agriculture and the General Customs Office are following the developments regarding the Syrian ship, which carried stolen flour and barley of Ukraine and anchored in Tripoli Port,” Lebanese Tra...
BEIRUT (AA) – Grain silos at Beirut’s blast-hit port partially collapsed on Sunday, four days before the second anniversary of the massive 2020 explosion in the Lebanese capital. The northern part of the silos collapsed as a result of a weeks-long fire which has blown massive clouds of smoke across the port. After the collapse, [&h...
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran has warned the interim Taliban government in Kabul that failure to resolve the protracted dispute over shared water resources could affect cooperation between the two neighbors. In a phone call with his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian called for an “expeditious and serio...
Ijok, Malaysia – (AFP): Overripe palm oil fruits hang untouched in trees while others lie rotting scattered around a plantation, as Malaysian farmers reap the bitter harvest of a severe labour shortage. The tropical country is the world’s second-biggest producer of the edible vegetable oil, which is found in many everyday goods fro...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh has sent a letter to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), asking for a record loan of $4.5 billion to address the prevailing financial crises and continue the ongoing development works. Mashiur Rahman, the economic affairs advisor to Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, said his country must ass...
