TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) says it has seized two Greek oil tankers in the Persian Gulf for committing “violations.” According to reports, Greek oil tankers Prudent Warrior and Delta Poseidon have been moved to Iranian waters a few miles off the Persian Gulf coast. It came shortly after a […]...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken urged Israel on Friday to conclude its inquiry into the murder of veteran journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Blinken “underscored the importance of concluding the investigations into the death of Palestinian-American Shireen Abu Akleh” during a call with Israeli Foreign Minister ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The situation in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is increasingly tenuous amid mounting settlement expansion, violence, Palestinian evictions and demolitions of Palestinian-owned properties, the UN warned on Thursday. “I’m extremely concerned that current dynamics, particularly in the occupied West Bank, could...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Biden administration approved on Thursday the potential $2.6 billion sale to Egypt of CH-47F Chinook helicopters, and related equipment. The package includes nearly two-dozen Chinooks, 56 T-55-GA-714A engines, 52 Embedded Global Positioning System Inertial Navigation Systems, 29 AN/AAR-57 Common Missile Warning Syst...
MARDIN, Turkiye (AA) – The EU will send an additional €530 million ($567 million) as educational assistance for Syrian children in Turkey, the bloc’s top diplomat said on Thursday. The bloc’s cooperation in the education of Syrian children in the Turkish Education System (PIKTES) will last until summer 2025, Nikolaus Meyer-La...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Senegal’s President Macky Sall sacked his health minister, Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr, on Thursday following a hospital fire in which 11 newborns were killed. In a presidential decree read on public television, Sall named Marie Khemesse Ngom Ndiaye as the new health minister. Ndiaye formerly served as the director general of pu...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 50 civilians have been killed by unidentified gunmen in the town of Madjoari in eastern Burkina Faso, an official said Thursday. Residents from Madjoari in Kompienga province bordering Benin were heading to Nadiagou in the town of Pama, fleeing violence, when they were targeted Wednesday by unidentified arm...
JERUSALEM/DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was killed by an armor-piercing projectile fired directly at her head by an Israeli sniper, Palestinian attorney general Akram Al-Khatib has said. Al-Khatib shared the details based on the Public Prosecution’s report about the killing of the Al Jazeera journali...
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania – Human rights defenders in Tanzania have said that they feel relieved by the measures taken by the first female President Samia Suluhu Hassan like lifting the ban on 30 media outlets, and beginning a review of repressive laws. Hassan, who took over last year in March after the death of […]
ANKARA – The US has imposed sanctions on an international network accused of oil smuggling and money laundering that it said was led by officials of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and supported by Russia. The network has “facilitated the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Iranian oil” for the […...
