ANKARA – Qatar has said that it will celebrate Eid al-Fitr — the festival which marks the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan — on Monday. In a statement, the Moon Sighting Committee of the Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs said the new moon of Shawwal, the 10th month in the Islamic […]
TRIPOLI, Libya – Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) has warned of an “impending environmental disaster” as a result of oil leaks due to lack of storage capacity for crude oil. “We have lost a lot of storage capacity and therefore we will not be able to store all the quantity (of crude oil),” the NOC […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Hamza Shehbaz of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz (PML-N) took oath as the new chief minister of Pakistan’s largest province of Punjab on Saturday after a long-drawn legal battle. National Assembly Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf administered the oath to Hamza as the 21st chief minister of the bellwether...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia said Saturday it had arrested 10 terror suspects for planning attacks against security forces. In a statement, the Interior Ministry said seven suspects were arrested for “suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organization”. It did not name the organization The statement said the suspects were wanted for involveme...
ANKARA (AA) – The Turkish president said on Saturday that Ankara and Riyadh have demonstrated a common will to develop bilateral relations at the highest level. Speaking to journalists on the presidential plane returning from Saudi Arabia, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkiye and Saudi Arabia are determined to continue this effort for the c...
BERLIN (AA) – A Berlin court has upheld a ban on a planned pro-Palestine demonstration in the German capital. Due to alleged anti-Semitic incidents on the sidelines of an anti-Israel protest last week, the Berlin administrative court endorsed the ban imposed by police earlier this week, a court official told the German Press Agency (dpa) [&hel...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon said Saturday that it is no longer capable of bearing the burden of hosting Syrian refugees in the country. Lebanon “is committed to the principle of non-refoulement of the displaced (Syrian refugees), but the situation is no longer tolerable,” Minister of Social Affairs Hector Hajjar said during a meeting with Ayak...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Hundreds of Palestinians mourned a youth killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank on Saturday. A 27-year-old Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces in the city of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank on Saturday, according to the Health Ministry. The circumstances of his death were not yet […]
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Four people were killed in fresh tribal clashes in Sudan’s West Darfur province on Saturday, taking the overall death toll since last week to 200, according to local medics. In a statement, the Sudanese Doctors Committee said the new fatalities were reported in the provincial capital Geneina. There was no comment [&helli...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Thousands of Sudanese demonstrators staged rallies on Saturday to mark the third anniversary of a deadly sit-in dispersal, in which dozens of protesters were killed. More than 60 protesters were killed when security forces violently dispersed a protest camp outside the army headquarters in the capital Khartoum on June 29...
