DOHA, Qatar (AA) – A Taliban spokesman in the Qatari capital of Doha told Anadolu Agency on Tuesday that negotiations between the Afghan interim government along with Turkiye and Qatar have not stopped. Mohammed Naim Wardak from the group’s political office said an agreement signed with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) concerned ground ope...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye will continue to stand by the Palestinian people for independent and sovereign Palestine, the country’s foreign minister said on Tuesday. Speaking at a joint news conference with his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkiye will pursue normalized ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The Afghan Taliban interim government on Tuesday signed a deal to hand over the country’s four key airports to a state-run United Arab Emirates company. Under the deal, the control and management of four international airports – Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, and Mazar-e-Sharif – will be handed over to the UAE aviation company,...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco and Israel on Tuesday signed 13 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) in the field of innovation and high-tech industry. The deals are the latest in efforts of Rabat and Tel Aviv to boost their relations since the normalization of their ties in late 2020. The MoUs were signed during a 3-day […]
KAZAN, Tatarstan – The 13th International Economic Summit: “Russia-Islamic World: Kazan Summit 2022”, held in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan, attracted about 6,400 visitors from 64 countries. A mega international economic gathering addressed the subjects of partnership finance, halal industry, export development, entrep...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian official on Sunday accused Israel of pressuring donors to derail the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. Naji Sarhan of the Public Works and Housing Ministry said only 20% of homes destroyed in an Israeli military offensive on Gaza last year have been rebuilt. He said a few roads […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – China and Pakistan have reaffirmed their support for each other’s “core interests and major concerns,” while vowing to further enhance economic and defense cooperation. Pakistan’s new Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited China at his counterpart Wang Yi’s invitation for “discussions on the entire gamut of bi...
BERLIN – Qatar will play a “central role” in Germany’s new energy strategy, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said. Speaking at a joint news conference in Berlin with Qatar’s emir, Scholz said the two countries will enhance their economic ties and energy cooperation. “Germany will further develop its energy infrastructure so that we will be abl...
GENEVA – The UN has revealed that up to 18 million people in Africa’s Sahel region will face severe food insecurity over the next three months — the highest number since 2014. It also issued a warning about drought-induced food scarcity extending to East Africa. Jens Laerke, Geneva spokesman for the United Nations Office for […]...
KARACHI, Pakistan/NEW DELHI, India – Rising temperatures- a direct result of climate change- are aggravating water, food, and biodiversity insecurity in Pakistan and India, which may worsen in the years to come, according to environmentalists based in the region. An intense heatwave is currently sweeping through the two nuclear-armed nei...
