MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – A court in the East African country of Djibouti sentenced a former budget minister and former police chief to three years in prison each for obtaining secret recordings said to be between the president and top commanders, state media reported on Friday. Bodeh Ahmed Robleh and Abdillahi Abdi Farah obtained the [&...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Essam al-Dalis, head of government administration in the Gaza Strip, on Friday headed to Cairo to discuss a range of issues with Egyptian officials. The visit will tackle the matters of Gaza reconstruction, trade and work on Rafah border crossing, the only crossing point between Egypt and the Gaza Strip, [&hel...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish security forces killed 16 PKK fighters in northern Iraq and seven in northern Syria, the country’s National Defense Ministry said Friday. The men in Iraq were killed in a raid under the Operation Claw-Lock and those in Syria were killed after they opened “harassment fire” in the areas of the Euphrates […]...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The man who gunned down six Muslims at a Quebec City mosque will be eligible for parole after 25 years rather than 40, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled Friday. Andre Bissonnette was 27 when he went on a killing spree, shooting six worshippers at the Centre Culturel Islamique de Quebec […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has seized two Greek oil tankers in the Persian Gulf for committing “violations.” According to reports, Greek oil tankers Prudent Warrior and Delta Poseidon have been moved to Iranian waters a few miles off the Persian Gulf coast. It came shortly after a […]...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israel on Friday to conclude its inquiry into the murder of veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Blinken “underscored the importance of concluding the investigations into the death of Palestinian-American Shireen Abu Akleh” during a call with Israeli Foreign Minister ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The situation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is increasingly tenuous amid mounting settlement expansion, violence, Palestinian evictions and demolitions of Palestinian-owned properties, the UN warned on Thursday. “I’m extremely concerned that current dynamics, particularly in the occupied West Bank, could...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Biden administration approved on Thursday the potential $2.6 billion sale to Egypt of CH-47F Chinook helicopters, and related equipment. The package includes nearly two-dozen Chinooks, 56 T-55-GA-714A engines, 52 Embedded Global Positioning System Inertial Navigation Systems, 29 AN/AAR-57 Common Missile Warning Syst...
MARDIN, Turkiye (AA) – The EU will send an additional €530 million ($567 million) as educational assistance for Syrian children in Turkey, the bloc’s top diplomat said on Thursday. The bloc’s cooperation in the education of Syrian children in the Turkish Education System (PIKTES) will last until summer 2025, Nikolaus Meyer-La...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Senegal’s President Macky Sall sacked his health minister, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, on Thursday following a hospital fire in which 11 newborns were killed. In a presidential decree read on public television, Sall named Marie Khemesse Ngom Ndiaye as the new health minister. Ndiaye formerly served as the director general of pu...
