Netanyahu rejects 2nd phase of Gaza ceasefire
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ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN has urged the Taliban to fulfill their pledge of inclusivity and reconciliation in the war-torn country. Deborah Lyons, the UN chief’s special envoy for Afghanistan, met acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi in Kabul on Tuesday, where she discussed several pressing issues such as women’s rights, including their acces...
Bamako, Mali – AFP Mali’s military junta on Monday said it thwarted an attempted coup last week led by army officers and supported by an unnamed Western state. The statement read out on state television said a “small group of anti-progressive Malian officers and non-commissioned officers attempted a coup in the night of May 1...
DEIR-EZ-ZOR/AZAZ, Syria (AA) – A man who had been imprisoned in Syria and subjected to torture for three years says the Assad regime extorts money from families of prisoners. Mohammed Shilash, who is from the town of Sor in Deir Ez-Zor province, decided to leave the country to work in Lebanon in 2019 after his […]
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...
