KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A 20-year-old Pakistani has become the world’s youngest mountaineer to summit 10 peaks above 8,000 meters (26,247 feet) after he climbed Gashebrum I, the 11th tallest mountain on earth, a mountaineering association has said. The 8,068-meter (26,469-foot) Gashebrum I, also known as the “Hidden Mountain...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Türkiye and Pakistan have signed a trade agreement aimed to achieve the objective of pushing bilateral trade up to $5 billion. The signing ceremony was held in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad and was attended by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other senior officials. The “Trade in Goods Agreement” was signed by Pakistan’s...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff, the EU representative in Palestine, has stated that Israel’s decision to demolish Ein Samiya School in the occupied West Bank is “illegal” and violates international law. Burgsdorff made the remarks in an exclusive statement on the occasion of his visit to the Ein Samiya Sc...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has suspended its military mission in Mali after diplomatic tensions with the West African country. Defense Ministry spokesman Arne Collatz told a news conference in Berlin that Malian authorities denied clearance to a German transport plane, and once again hindered troop rotation plans. “Therefore, we must take mea...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – The Lebanese army has announced that it has received the first batch of a $60 million grant provided by Qatar. The army said it has begun distributing financial aid to military personnel, which was granted to support the salaries of the armed forces. Lebanese Armed Forces Commander Gen. Joseph Aoun praised […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Qatar has pledged to rebuild all houses destroyed in Israel’s latest assault on the Gaza Strip, Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has announced. A statement from Haniyeh’s office said Qatari Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani informed him of the decision. The leader of resistance group Hamas, which rules t...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Four people were injured when a wanted man blew himself up as authorities attempted to arrest him in Saudi Arabia’s western city of Jeddah, security authorities said on Friday. “One of the wanted men (Abdullah Al-Bakri) was tracked on Wednesday evening, and upon initiating the arrest procedures, he took the initiative to ...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Two soldiers were slightly wounded when armed militants attacked an army unit in the west-central Tunisian province of Kasserine, the country’s Defense Ministry said in a statement on Friday. The army unit was patrolling in Mount Salloum near the town of Kasserine, close to the Algerian border, when terrorists attacked th...
ANKARA (AA) – Author Salman Rushdie, popular in the West but hated in the Muslim world, is on ventilator after being attacked Friday on stage in the state of New York. The author’s agent, Andrew Wylie, said in an email update to the New York Times that Rushdie is on a ventilator and cannot speak, […]
LONDON (AA) – UK counter-terrorism police have charged a former member of an ISIS cell in the UK with “terrorism offences” after arresting him at London’s airport upon arrival. Aine Davis, 38, was arrested at Luton Airport by the Metropolitan Police’s counter-terrorism command and taken to a police station in Lond...
