ANKARA (AA) – Israeli army Chief of Staff, Aviv Kochavi, is scheduled to pay an official visit to Morocco this week, according to the Israeli media. Kochavi’s three-day trip will be the first time an Israeli military chief officially visits the North African nation. Last month, Israeli military officials participated as observers in a ma...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar are facing unforeseen delays in the international justice process for genocide and other gross human rights violations, prolonging the plight of the displaced community living in squalid makeshift tents in Bangladesh. “It’s almost five years since the most inhuman militar...
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AA) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman has said that the kingdom will seek to increase its oil production to 13 million barrels per day. Addressing an Arab-American summit in the Saudi city of Jeddah, bin Salman said the kingdom currently produces around 11 million barrels a day. “We have an […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The foreign ministers of Armenia and Azerbaijan met in the Georgian capital Tbilisi as part of peace talks between the two South Caucasus countries. Accompanied by their respective delegations, Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and his Armenian counterpart Ararat Mirzoyan met in Tbilisi, Georgia’s Foreign Mini...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN special envoy for Syria has said that the next session of the Syrian-led and UN-facilitated talks scheduled for July 25-29 in Geneva “is no longer possible.” While Geir Pedersen said he regrets that holding the ninth session of the “Constitutional Committee’s Small Body” to find a constitution for the war...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The presidents of Türkiye and France discussed the decisions taken to facilitate Ukrainian grain exports at four-way talks held in Istanbul, according to the Turkish Communications Directorate. In a phone call, Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that during the Istanbul meeting it was agreed ...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Police in Nigeria’s southern state of Anambra killed 10 bandits during an operation against armed gangs, an official said Sunday. Ammunition belonging to the bandits was also seized, said Ikenga Tochukwu, the spokesman for the Anambra state police. A long-running conflict between cattle herders and farmers in Taraba...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – At least three people were killed and more than 14 others wounded when a suicide car bomb blast rocked the town of Jowhar in Somalia on Sunday, officials said. A police officer in Jowhar told Anadolu Agency that it was a suicide car bomb attack that targeted Nur Dob hotel, killing […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The opposition Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday swept the crucial by-elections, paving the way for its government in the country’s bellwether Punjab province, unofficial results showed. The PTI won 17 out of 20 provincial assembly seats, consolidating its le...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Three Palestinians were injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank on Sunday. The injuries occurred in clashes between Palestinians and Israeli forces during a raid in the town of Tubas in the northern West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. The injured were rushed to the [&hel...
