KIGALI, Rwanda/ACCRA, Ghana (AA) – Leaders of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) bloc on Sunday lifted economic and financial sanctions imposed on Mali with immediate effect. ECOWAS imposed the sanctions on Mali in January for delaying to restore democratic rule. Meeting at an ordinary summit of heads of state and governmen...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on Sunday vowed to abide by the recent agreement with Türkiye, including pledges on extradition of terrorists. Speaking at the annual political festival Almedalen Week in Gotland, Andersson said she could not share specific details of the memorandum signed with Türkiye and Finla...
TASHKENT (AA) – Uzbekistan has announced a month-long state of emergency in the protest-hit autonomous region of Karakalpakstan. The decree was signed by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev after demonstrations concerning the government’s proposed constitutional amendments over the region’s autonomous status. According to the official ord...
ANKARA (AA) – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on Libyans to avoid violence and maintain stability in Libya, according to a statement by his spokesperson. “The Secretary-General is following with concern the demonstrations that were held in several cities in Libya, including Tripoli, Tobruk and Benghazi,” Stephane D...
BEIJING (AA) – A magnitude 5.2 earthquake struck northwestern China’s Xinjiang region early Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center. The epicenter with a depth of 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) was recorded at 6.02 a.m. local time (2202GMT) in the county of Akqi on the border of the Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli forces have detained two Palestinians for allegedly ‘attempting to cross from the Gaza Strip into Israel’, according to the Israeli military. A statement by the military said the two were taken into custody while attempting to cross a security fence in the southern Gaza Strip into Israel. According to...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia’s powerful labor union has allowed its members to vote in a referendum later this month on the country’s new constitution. “Members have the freedom to vote in the (constitutional) referendum,” Noureddine Taboubi, secretary-general of the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT), said following a meeting in the capital...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – An Arab NGO has documented 44 Israeli rights violations against Palestinian journalists in the occupied Palestinian territories during the month of June alone. The Journalists Support Committee has said that Israeli forces deliberately assassinated female journalist Ghufran Warasnah, 31, in the city of Hebron last m...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian Attorney-General Akram al-Khatib has said that a US team will examine the bullet that killed trailblazing Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. “A US team has already arrived to conduct the forensic examination of the bullet at the US Embassy in Jerusalem,” al-Khatib said. He further elaborated that th...
ANKARA (AA) – Israeli military observers will participate in a military exercise in Morocco later this week, according to the country’s defense ministry. The ministry statement said the participation in the “African Lion 2022” exercise in Morocco is “an additional step in strengthening security relations between the countries.” This is t...
