JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli police attacked the funeral procession for a Palestinian youth in occupied East Jerusalem Monday evening, according to witnesses. Clashes erupted between Israeli forces and Palestinian mourners near the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex during the funeral of a 23-year-old youth killed by Israeli gunfire last month, the...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden has reauthorized the deployment of US forces to Somalia, the White House announced on Monday in a major policy reversal conducted at the Pentagon’s request. Former US President Donald Trump pulled roughly 700 American troops out from the east African country during the final month of his presid...
DOUALA, Cameroon – At least five people have been arrested in N’Djamena, Chad’s largest city and capital, following sporadic but violent protests against France over its alleged backing of the country’s military junta, the government said Monday. The Wakit-tamma coalition, a civil society group, held an authorized demonstrati...
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Allies of Lebanese group Hezbollah appear to have suffered losses in Sunday’s parliamentary elections in Lebanon, early results have shown. Unofficial results showed that Hezbollah and its Shiite ally Amal Movement have retained their seats in the 128-seat parliament. Hezbollah ally, the Free Patriotic Movement, however, won ...
BRUSSELS – The EU has announced €25 million (approximately $26 million) in humanitarian aid for vulnerable Palestinians in occupied West Bank. The financial assistance aims to counterbalance the rising energy and food prices exacerbated by the war in Ukraine that adds on the top of the economic crisis in the West Bank and Gaza, the […]...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – The United Nations and Somalia’s neighbors have congratulated Hassan Sheikh Mohamud- the new president of Somalia- announcing their commitment to work with the new administration. Mohamud has been elected president on Sunday May 15 after he received 214 parliamentary votes, defeating outgoing President Mohamed ...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia – Doctors in Saudi Arabia have successfully separated Yemeni conjoined twins after a “complicated” 15-hour operation. The baby boys, Yussef and Yassin, were “conjoined in several organs”, and some 24 doctors were involved in the operation to separate them. Yemen has been wrecked by a brutal se...
KARACHI, Pakistan – Longtime allies Pakistan and China have vowed to enhance economic cooperation, expand trade, and encourage greater investments from Beijing. In a phone call, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang agreed that an “All-Weather Strategic Cooperative Partnership”...
BAGHDAD – Classes at schools in Iraq were suspended for one day due to a heavy sandstorm, according to the Education Ministry. The ministry said in a statement that the heavy sandstorm, which started in the morning in many cities, including the capital Baghdad, negatively affected life. Dozens of people at risk of suffocation were […]
KARACHI, Pakistan – Young Pakistani mountaineer Abdul Joshi has scaled Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth in order to become the country’s eighth climber to achieve it. Joshi belongs to the Hunza valley of northern Gilgit-Baltistan region, which borders neighboring China. He was part of a 13-member team that summited the 8,849-...
