JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has finally acknowledged the killing of five Palestinian children in an aerial raid during the recent three-day offensive on the Gaza Strip. Defense Ministry officials confirmed Israel’s responsibility in the tragic incident, which occurred on August 7 in a cemetery in the Jabaliya area, northern Gaza, leadi...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least 20 people were killed in a collision between a passenger bus and an oil tanker in northeastern Pakistan on early Tuesday morning, officials said. The collision – the second in less than a week – took place near northeastern Multan city on a motorway when the bus heading from […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The only way to achieve a mutual return to the 2015 nuclear deal is for Iran to drop further unacceptable demands, the US State Department has said. “We have long called these demands extraneous. They have no place in Vienna. They have no place in the discussions regarding a potential return to […]
BAGHDAD (AA) – Influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has postponed a planned mass protest in Iraq on Saturday until further notice. “I announce that the Saturday protest has been postponed until further notice,” al-Sadr said in a statement. “The people will continue their sit-in,” he, however, added. The firebrand cleric ha...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Flash floods triggered by heavy rains have killed 75 people in Sudan and injured dozens since June, local authorities said on Tuesday. The rains have caused the collapse of 12,511 homes and damaged 24,275 others, the National Council for Civil Defense said in a statement. On Sunday, the United Nations said […]
NEW DELHI (AA) – Political analysts and experts have raised concerns about the shrinking representation of Muslims in India’s mainstream politics. With the resignation in July of former Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, there is no more Muslim representation in the 77-member Union Council of Ministers led by Prime Minister N...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Human rights groups and Muslim representatives expressed outrage on Tuesday over the release of 11 men serving life sentences for gang rape and murder during the 2002 Gujarat riots, which killed around 2000 people, the majority of whom were Muslims. The 11 convicts in the case of gang rape survivor Bilkis […]
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid arrived in Amman on Tuesday for talks with Jordanian officials. Bin Rashid held talks with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi where they discussed bilateral cooperation and a host of issues, including developments in Palestine. “The meeting was an opportunity to discuss c...
BAKU (AA) – Azerbaijan will retake control of the city of Lachin and some villages on the route between Khankendi and Armenia at the end of this month in accordance with a joint declaration signed by Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. Russian troops and the Armenian population will leave the areas along the route known as […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Iran’s conservative and reformist media is divided over its reaction to Friday’s attack on Salman Rushdie- an Indian-born American-British novelist. Rushdie was stabbed multiple times by 24-year-old Hadi Matar in New York just as he was about to present his lecture on stage. Soon after the attack, Iran was pus...
