ANKARA (AA): The United Nations on Saturday called for the adoption of a more strategic approach to address the Palestinian economic and fiscal crisis. The call came in a report issued by the office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO), Tor Wennesland, ahead of a meeting of the […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): With his latest feat, Sirbaz Khan on Saturday became the first Pakistani to have climbed 10 of the world’s 14 summits taller than 8,000 meters (26,247 feet). “Khan stood atop the summit of 8,586-m (28,169-ft) Kunchenjunga (Kangchenjunga), the world’s third-highest peak, at 7 am (local time) on Saturday (0115...
GENEVA (AA): The UN human rights chief on Saturday expressed deep distress over recent violent clashes between Muslims and Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia, in which at least 30 people were reportedly killed and more than 100 others were injured. “I call on the Ethiopian authorities to promptly initiate and conduct thorough, independent, and tr...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Palestine on Saturday welcomed the US opposition to Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank but said it was not enough. On Friday, the US Department of State slammed Israeli plans to advance nearly 4,000 settlement units in the occupied West Bank, saying the measure “deeply damages the prospects for a [...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian youth was seriously injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, according to the Health Ministry. A ministry statement said a 21-year-old man was shot in the shoulder by Israeli forces and admitted to a hospital in the city of Qalqilya. The statement said the […]
ANKARA (AA): The Turkish armed forces killed 11 PKK fighters in northern Syria who were preparing to attack areas cleared of “terrorists” following Turkiye’s military operations, the National Defense Ministry said on Saturday. “Our heroic Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) continue to destroy terror nests in northern Syria,” th...
Elad, Israel (AFP): Israel conducted a large-scale manhunt on Friday for a pair of Palestinians accused of killing three Israelis in an axe attack that came as the Jewish state marked its founding. The attack on the night of 5th May in Elad, a central city mainly populated by ultra-Orthodox Jews, was the sixth in […]
ANKARA (AA): Charter flights carrying the presidents of Turkiye and Azerbaijan will land at Turkiye’s Rize-Artvin Airport this month — marking the first landing at the facility. The airport will be inaugurated on May 14 in the presence of Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev. The air...
NEW YORK (AA): US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield will visit Turkiye’s southern border with Syria this weekend, through which much-needed humanitarian aid is carried to millions of Syrians in the war-torn country. The visit to the Cilvegozu Border Crossing, located in Hatay province, which lies opposite the Bab al-Hawa Borde...
BEIRUT (AA): Lebanon’s parliamentary elections for expats kicked off on Friday. The voting has opened in 10 countries in the first phase: Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Syria, Oman, Bahrain, Jordan and Iran. The second phase for the voting abroad, scheduled on Sunday, will take place in 48 other countries. Lebanese Foreign Min...