TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has downplayed the significance of the US presidential election result, saying it “does not matter” who the US president is. Addressing reporters in Tehran, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said that the “general policies” remain unchanged. Republican Donald Trump claimed victory in the Nov. 5 elections after...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed Knesset member Gideon Saar as the foreign minister, replacing Israel Katz who became a defense minister. A hardliner, Saar takes the helm of Israeli diplomacy at a time when Tel Aviv presses ahead with its deadly genocidal wars on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Born [&hellip...
LONDON (AA) – Doctors Without Borders Denmark urged the Danish government to accept sick and injured patients from Gaza, local media has reported. Although Denmark is evacuating and treating patients from Ukraine, the authorities have rejected to treat Palestinian patients from Gaza. For patients who cannot get necessary treatment inside...
Lebanon’s labor minister announced on Wednesday that the country has filed a complaint with the International Labor Organization (ILO) over deadly pager explosions in Lebanon in September. Moustafa Bayram described the attacks as an “egregious war against humanity, against technology, against work,”. In a press briefing in G...
Palestinians carried out debris removal efforts in the aftermath of an Israeli attack on the Tulkarem Refugee Camp in the north of the occupied West Bank. The Commission of Detainees’ Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said the raids targeted several towns in the occupied territory, including East Jerusalem, Tulkarem, and Rama...
Somalia on Wednesday urged Germany to end the “forced” deportation of Somalis. Visiting Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin to discuss cooperation on the deportation of migrants from the East African nation. Approximately 65,000 Somalis live in Germany. Somali government spokesman...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – The UN has warned about inhuman and deadly living conditions in northern Gaza and said Palestinians are “starving while the world watches on.” “For the past month, North Gaza has been under a near-total brutal siege,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said during a news conference, conveying a...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army rounded up at least 18 Palestinians, including two girls, in military raids in the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups on Thursday. Two girls and former prisoners were among the detainees in the raids that targeted several areas in the occupied territory, including Hebron, Qalq...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Knesset (Israel’s parliament) passed a new controversial law that allows the deportation of family members of Palestinians involved in “attacks against Israelis.” The bill was approved in the second and third readings by 61-41 votes, making it an effective law. The legislation is widely seen to be targeting Ara...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army killed at least six Palestinians in airstrikes and artillery shelling on homes in northern Gaza as the army stepped up its ground assault in the enclave’s north. A medical source reported that five Palestinians were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home belonging to the Al-Asi […]