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RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Israel and Morocco have agreed to enhance bilateral security cooperation. Israeli Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai met Morocco’s Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance Abdellatif El Hammouchi in the capital Rabat on Friday, and agreed to promote security cooperation to serve mutual intere...
Dakar, Senegal – (AFP): Senegalese President Macky Sall’s coalition has lost its absolute majority in parliament but finished first by a narrow margin in parliamentary polls, provisional results have shown. It is the first time since the West African country’s independence in 1960 that the ruling party’s camp has lost t...
Baghdad, Iraq – (AFP): Tens of thousands attended prayers on Friday in Baghdad’s Green Zone in a show of power by Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr after his adversaries agreed to back his call for early elections conditionally. Sadr, a longtime political and religious force in Iraq, has for months been in a political standoff with [&helli...
RAMALLAH (AA) – The Israeli army has arrested 23 Palestinians during a raid on a number of West Bank governorates. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Club said: “The detainees are from the governorates of Hebron, Bethlehem (south), Tulkarm, and Jenin (north).” The club also added that among the detainees, eight were from the Al-Aj...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The United Arab Emirates has affirmed its support for China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity amid tensions over the US House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan, which Beijing considers as its “breakaway province.” In a statement, the Foreign Ministry of UAE emphasized on the “impor...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Several rallies and seminars were held across Pakistan on Friday to mark three years since New Delhi stripped Indian-administered Kashmir of its special status. Islamabad commemorated the day as “Youm-e-Istehsal,” or “Day of Exploitation,” to reiterate its condemnation of the move that resulted in the annexation of the ...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Following rival Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr’s call, the Coordination Framework coalition has voiced support for any constitutional path to address Iraq’s political crisis, including early elections. However, the coalition wants a government to first be formed under Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, its nominee for the post of prime minis...
BAGHDAD (AA) – UN special envoy for Iraq Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert on Friday met prominent Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf to discuss the country’s political crisis, state media reported. According to the official Iraqi news agency, Plasschaert said her meeting with the leader of the Sadrist movement “went well.” Plasschaert ...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories (AFP): A senior leader of Islamic Jihad was among more than 15 people killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip Friday, prompting the group to warn that Israel has “started a war”. A child was among those killed in the strikes, the enclave’s health ministry said, while Israel’s m...
ANKARA (AA) – Armenia accusing Azerbaijan of violating the 2020 agreement which ended the 44-day Karabakh War is “nothing but mere hypocrisy,” Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry said on Thursday. Azerbaijan has repeatedly pointed to Armenia’s failure to meet the provisions of the Nov. 10, 2020 agreement signed by the two nat...
