KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Army and paramilitary troops were called in to join the relief and rescue operations after fresh rain spells and flash floods inundated most parts of Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi on Monday. Another five people lost their lives in rain-related accidents in Karachi, home to 20 million people, as widespread...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia’s Ennahda movement said Thursday it will boycott the referendum this month on a new version of the country’s constitution. Ennahda spokesman Emad al-Houmairi termed the July 25 referendum on the new constitution “illegitimate.” “Ennahda calls for boycotting the constitutional referendum and considers it ille...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Taliban-led interim administration of Afghanistan has chided the US decision to rescind Afghanistan’s designation as a “major non-NATO ally.” US President Biden last week notified the Congress of his intent to officially rescind Afghanistan’s designation as a “major non-NATO ally.” “In accordance wit...
NEW DELHI (AA) – India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) no longer has any Muslim legislator in the parliament as the tenure of its last Muslim legislator- Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi- who also served as the country’s Minority Affairs Ministry, ended on Thursday. Naqvi, 64, who was a member of the Rajya Sabha or [&hel...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz has said that Israel has signed arms deals worth more than $3 billion with countries in the region since the signing of the ‘Abraham Accords’ for the normalization of ties in 2020 with Arab countries. Gantz said Israeli Defense Ministry personnel held about 150 meetings with ...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran claimed Wednesday that it had detained the UK’s deputy ambassador in Tehran for allegedly taking samples of soil from a region where missile exercises were being conducted. Giles Whitaker and several other foreign nationals were detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) after it was determined that...
Allahabad, India – (AFP) After two nights in police custody, Indian teenager Somaiya Fatima was released in time to watch live footage of an excavator claw smashing into the walls of her childhood home. The residence is among scores of dwellings and businesses flattened by wrecking crews this year, in a campaign authorities have promoted...
JERUSALEM (AA) – US President Joe Biden will visit the Palmachim Air Base in central Israel during his tour to the region next week, the Israeli Defense Ministry said Thursday. A ministry statement said the base has been prepared by the Directorate of Research and Development of the Missile Defense Organization to welcome the US […]
Abuja, Nigeria – (AFP) Suspected Boko Haram fighters using guns and explosives blasted their way into a prison near Nigeria’s capital, freeing dozens of their jailed comrades and hundreds of other inmates, the government said on Wednesday. Tuesday night’s brazen attack on the outskirts of Abuja came just hours after an ambush...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Tunisian street vendors often complain of official harassment, but one sandwich maker-turned-social-media-star hopes his struggles against bureaucracy will motivate young entrepreneurs. Habib Hlila, 27, first set up a food van in the working-class Bab El Khadra district of Tunis in early April, selling sandwiches at ...
