ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye’s foreign minister is scheduled to go on a two-day visit for official talks in Palestine and Israel, according to an official statement on Monday. Mevlut Cavusoglu is set on Tuesday to chair the second meeting of the Joint Committee of the Palestinian and Turkish foreign ministries, which was established in 20...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – The German chancellor Monday visited Niger on the second day of his three-nation visit to Africa. Olaf Scholz, who embarked on his first visit to Africa on Sunday and visited Senegal where he held talks with President Macky Sall, will conclude his tour on Tuesday in South Africa. “This is my first […]
ANKARA (AA) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi arrived Monday in the Omani capital, Muscat, for his first visit to the Gulf state since he assumed power last year. Raisi was welcomed upon arrival by Sultan Haitham bin Tariq at an official ceremony, the Oman News Agency reported. Raisi said in pre-departure statements cited by the […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that his party’s march to Islamabad to press for new elections would begin on May 25. Addressing a news conference in the northwestern city of Peshawar, Khan said his supporters will remain in the capital until new elections are called. Khan, w...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – An officer from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was shot dead by unknown assailants in Tehran on Sunday, the IRGC’s public relations division said. Colonel Sayyad Khodayari was attacked by two motorcycle-borne assailants in his car outside his home in eastern Tehran, close to the Iranian parliame...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian official on Sunday accused Israel of pressuring donors to derail the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip. Naji Sarhan of the Public Works and Housing Ministry said only 20% of homes destroyed in an Israeli military offensive on Gaza last year have been rebuilt. He said a few roads […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Tunisia’s Ennahda movement has decried a decree issued by President Kais Saied excluding political parties from drafting the country’s new constitution. On Friday, Saied named law professor Sadik Belaid to chair an advisory committee to draft a new constitution. Belaid will be coordinating between two other advisory panels task...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – China and Pakistan have reaffirmed their support for each other’s “core interests and major concerns,” while vowing to further enhance economic and defense cooperation. Pakistan’s new Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari visited China at his counterpart Wang Yi’s invitation for “discussions on the entire gamut of bi...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – An Israeli court on Sunday sentenced six Palestinian detainees to five years in prison for tunneling out of a maximum-security jail facility last year. The court also slapped the six prisoners with a fine of 5,000 shekels ($1,500), the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)-run Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detain...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians have condemned a US decision to remove radical Jewish group Kach from the list of terror organizations. On Friday, the US Department of State removed five extremist groups from its list of foreign terrorist organizations, including Kach movement. In a statement, the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority ...
