TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Twenty bodies of people believed to be migrants were found in Libya’s desert close to the border with Chad, according to the Libyan authorities on Wednesday. In a statement, the Ambulance Service said the bodies were found inside a pickup truck 310 kilometers south of Kufra city. It said the truck […]
LONDON (AA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced Tuesday that Argentina is on track to become a member of the BRICS group of emerging economies along with Iran. “Of course, both Argentina and Iran are worthy and respected candidates, as well as a number of other countries that are also mentioned in the discussions,...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said the five Caspian states have reached an agreement on military use in the Caspian Sea. “It was decided that navigation is carried out only by vessels under the flag of one of the Caspian countries and the same principle applies to the entry and exit […]
JENIN, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian man was shot down by Israeli forces in the northern occupied West Bank on Wednesday, officials said. Wissam Bakr, director of the Khalil Suleiman government hospital in the West Bank city of Jenin, said a young man died after being shot by Israeli forces. Witnesses told Anadolu Agency that […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has rejected as “baseless, one-sided and unjust” a statement issued by the Group of Seven (G7) following their summit in Germany. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanani said the G7 statement was in line with “erroneous habits of the countries that issued it” and shows “their insistence on failed policies that [...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – A senior security official survived an assassination attempt in Yemen’s southern city of Aden on Wednesday, according to a local security source. A car-bomb explosion targeted the convoy of Lahij security chief, Bri. Saleh al-Sayyid, on a road leading to Aden airport, the source said. The security official emerged unhurt fr...
New Delhi, India – (AFP) Rights activists and journalists on Tuesday condemned the “arbitrary” and “unlawful” arrest of the co-founder of a top fact-checking website in India who has been a vocal critic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Mohammed Zubair was detained on Monday after being questioned by police, before...
Kabul, Afghanistan – (AFP) Hundreds of religious leaders and “people of influence” from around Afghanistan have been summoned to the capital to attend a three-day grand council in support of the country’s Taliban rule. Officials provided scant details of the men-only meeting which started on Wednesday, a week after a po...
Idlib, Syria – (AFP) A US drone strike in northwestern Syria killed a Yemeni leader of a local extremist group affiliated to Al-Qaeda, the US military and a Syrian war monitor said. The strike, carried out on Monday just before midnight (2100 GMT) on the eastern edge of the city of Idlib, took out a […]
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – (AFP) Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, just weeks after a top official’s remarks about the Prophet Mohammed set off anger in the Gulf. India’s foreign minister said Modi’s visit was to convey his sympathies to Sheikh Mohamed — whose b...
