RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Four Palestinian prisoners have vowed to continue their hunger strike to protest their indefinite detention without trial by Israel, according to a local NGO. Among the striking detainees is Khalil Awawdeh, who has been on hunger strike for 165 days, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a statement. As part of [&...
Freetown, Sierra Leone – (AFP): The president of Sierra Leone has blamed deadly protests this week on opposition parties, claiming that his political rivals had attempted to overthrow his government in a “premeditated” insurrection. On August 10, a demonstration organised by women to draw attention to inflation and the rising...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has held direct talks with the Syrian regime in an effort to secure the release of detained American journalist Austin Tice, the State Department announced on Monday. Tice has been held in captivity in Syria for 10 years, and State Department spokesman Ned Price said Washington has “directly engaged Syrian ...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN proposed on Monday to expand and extend the truce in Yemen beyond Oct. 2 with a four-point plan, including the opening of additional roads in Taiz and regular flow of fuel to the port of Hudaydah. The Yemeni government and Houthi rebels agreed earlier in the month to extend […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A deadly fire killed at least six workers while huge properties were gutted in a multi-story building in the old part of Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka on Monday, according to official sources. Eyewitnesses and fire service officers said the fire took place at around 12 p.m. local time (0600GMT) Monday and rapidly [&hellip...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Taliban fighters chanted victory slogans next to the US embassy in Kabul Monday as they marked the first anniversary of their return to power in Afghanistan following a turbulent year that saw women’s rights crushed and a humanitarian crisis worsen. Exactly a year ago, the Taliban captured Kabul after a nationwi...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – In its first reaction since the assassination bid on controversial writer Salman Rushdie, Iran said the writer-provocateur and his supporters are to blame for the attack. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani, addressing a weekly press conference in Tehran, refuted any link between the attack on Rushdie an...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli media has claimed that the former US President Donald Trump sent a secret letter to the then Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorizing his controversial annexation plan of Palestinian territories to Israel’s sovereignty. The Jerusalem Post newspaper said the three-page letter, dated January 26, 2020, sa...
PARIS (AA) – France has pulled the last of its troops out of Mali on August 15, bringing the country’s Operation Barkhane to an end. “This day at 1.00 p.m. (1300GMT), the last detachment of the Barkhane force present on Malian soil crossed the border between Mali and Niger,” said a press release by the […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – A Palestinian man was killed on Monday by the Israeli police in the Kafr Aqab town of the occupied northern Jerusalem. In a statement from the Office of Jerusalem Governor of the Palestinian Authority, the Palestinian victim was identified as Mohammad al-Hasham. He was shot from a close range after Israeli police [&helli...
