BRUSSELS – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell pledged an extra €1 billion ($1.06 billion) support for the Syrian people for this year at the Brussels Syria Conference. “I am pleased to announce an additional €1 billion aid for the calendar year of 2022,” Borrell said at his opening speech at the 6th Brussels conference […]...
JERUSALEM – US President Joe Biden is considering a visit to occupied East Jerusalem during his upcoming visit to Israel in June, according to an Israeli official. The official said Biden would possibly visit Al Makassed Hospital in the city, although the plans are not yet to be finalized. If confirmed, the visit is likely […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) – About a dozen women protested in the Afghan capital on Tuesday against the Taliban’s new edict that females must fully cover their faces and bodies when in public. Afghanistan’s supreme leader and Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada issued a mandate over the weekend ordering women to cover up fully,...
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – The European Union’s coordinator for talks between Iran and world powers over restoring a 2015 nuclear deal will visit Tehran this week, Iran’s foreign ministry has said. “The agenda for talks (with Enrique Mora) in Tehran is nearly finalised. “He will meet with Ali Bagheri, the Islamic Republ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli soldiers injured at least eight Palestinians during raids early Tuesday in the northern city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Jewish settlers, who headed by bus to Joseph’s tomb in Nablus under the protection of the Israeli army, attacked Palestinians in the area, according to information rece...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on Tuesday accepted the resignation of the country’s government. The Emir issued a decree asking the government to stay in a caretaker capacity, the state news agency KUNA reported. Last month, Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Hamad Al-Sabah submitted his governme...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Arab Joint List on Monday voted against a no-confidence motion in the Knesset, a move that kept Prime Minister Naftali Bennett’s coalition government alive. The Arab Joint List, which is not a member of the coalition but has six seats in the Knesset, justified its move as a way to block […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon – The voter turnout of the Lebanese diaspora in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections reached 60%, according to the country’s foreign ministry. Foreign Ministry official Hadi Hashem said between 128,000 and 130,000 expatriates in 58 countries cast their votes out of 225,000 eligible Lebanese voters worldwide. “The turnout of expatr...
ANKARA – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has denounced Israeli plans to build thousands of new settlement units by demolishing Palestinian homes and razing Palestinian villages. The OIC said in a written statement that it “condemned the plans of Israel to build 4,000 new settlement units on occupied Palestinian land and to ...
KHARTOUM, Sudan – The Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) has welcomed the launch of a national dialogue facilitated by the UN and the African Union. The SRF is an alliance of political and armed groups formed in 2011 to oppose the regime of former President Omar al-Bashir. “We welcome the planned launch of dialogue between Sudanese […]...
