ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – The death toll of Algeria’s forest fires rose to 31, the Algerian Civil Protection authority said on Thursday. In a statement, it said that four deaths were reported in the northeastern El Tarf province along the borders with Tunisia and one death was reported in another northeastern province, Guelma. Local ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The Somali army claimed to have killed 17 al-Shabaab men in the country’s central region of Hiran. In a brief statement issued on Twitter on Thursday, the army said that the al Shabaab men were killed in counter-terrorism operations. The military also liberated three villages from al-Shabaab during the operation...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday discussed bilateral relations and regional issues with the prime minister of Israel in a phone call. Erdogan told Yair Lapid that Ankara would take the necessary steps to appoint a new ambassador to Israel as soon as possible. This came hours after Turkish Foreign Minister...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The UN high commissioner for human rights expressed deep concern Wednesday over allegations of extrajudicial killings, torture in police custody and enforced disappearances in Bangladesh. Michelle Bachelet, the first UN rights chief to visit Bangladesh, told journalists at a press conference in the capital Dhaka,...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – A total of 26 people have died in Algeria as of Wednesday due to forest fires that broke out in several provinces of the North African country. Civil protection officials stated that teams were working to put out 39 fires across 14 provinces, most of them in the country’s northeast. President […]
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): Turkish air strikes on Syria border posts run by regime forces killed 17 fighters on Tuesday, according to a war monitor, prompting the Damascus government to threaten retaliation. “Seventeen fighters were killed in Turkish air strikes that hit several Syrian regime outposts… near the Turkish border,” t...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Rohingya refugees have urged visiting UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet to create a conducive environment in Myanmar for the sustainable repatriation of the persecuted minority to their home country. Bachelet’s visit marked the first time a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has visited Bangladesh ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas clarified himself on Wednesday referring to an earlier statement in which he had accused Israel of committing ’50 holocausts’ against Palestine. Abbas explained after having unwittingly triggered backlash that he had not meant to deny the singularity of the Holocaust, b...
ANKARA (AA) – Egypt President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi has accepted the resignation of central bank governor Tarek Amer who will work as his adviser. A statement by Sisi’s office said the Egyptian leader thanked Amer for his efforts during his tenure as central bank governor. Amer was appointed for a four-year term as central bank governor [&helli...
ANKARA (AA) – South Korea and Qatar have announced that their citizens will no longer require visas to visit each other’s country. The announcement was made during a meeting between South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin and his Qatari counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani in Seoul, where both top diplomats signed the visa...
