HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – An official from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has termed the death of seven newborns and infants from cold in Gaza as “tragic and unacceptable.” “It’s tragic and unacceptable that since 23 December, 7 newborns and infants have reportedly died from the cold and a lack of adequate shelter ...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Yemeni Houthi resistance group has claimed to have shot down a US drone in central Yemen. Military spokesman Yahya Saree said a US MQ-9 drone was intercepted “while carrying out hostile missions” over Marib province. He said the drone was shot down by “a domestically made surface-to-air missile.” The spokesman [&h...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Heavy rains have inundated over 1,542 tents housing displaced civilians in the Gaza Strip in the past two days amid Israel’s genocidal war on the enclave, the Civil Defense Service has said. “Hundreds of tents were flooded with rainwater at a level exceeding 30 centimeters,” the agency said in a […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US imposed sanctions Tuesday on entities in Iran and Russia accusing them of attempting to interfere in the 2024 election. The Treasury Department said a subsidiary of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and an organization affiliated with the Russian Main Intelligence Directorate (GRU) “aimed to st...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hundreds of thousands of people gathered at Istanbul’s Galata Bridge on New Year’s Day to express solidarity with Palestine. Participants marched from mosques across the historic peninsula and beyond after early morning prayers, beating the wintry chill and carrying Turkish and Palestinian flags. The event was organized b...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran has said that it will hold a new round of nuclear talks with the European troika – France, Germany and the UK (E3) – in the Swiss city of Geneva on January 13. “What is happening between Iran and the E3 is talks, not negotiations,” Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – With at least 685 fatalities, 2024 was a deadly year for Pakistani security forces, the Center for Research and Security Studies said in a report. Security forces killed 934 suspected militants. The violence took the heaviest toll on the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, followed by southwestern Balochistan provi...
The Sudanese government has accused Western media of distorting facts about the ongoing civil war. Information Minister Khalid Aleisir said the media unfairly supports the Rapid Support Forces’ (RSF) narrative and wrongly accuses the Sudanese army of targeting civilians. Alesir claimed the RSF abuses civilians, robs homes and commits violence...
Ford Motor Company says its official X account was hacked, with the compromised account posting free-Palestinian messages. The posts included phrases such as “Free Palestine” and “Israel is a terrorist state” and “ALL EYES ON GAZA.” The tweets generated thousands of interactions before being deleted in hour...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Gaza’s population has declined by 6% as a result of Israel’s genocidal war, official figures have shown. Ola Awad, head of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS), said the territory’s population dropped to 2.1 million, down by 160,000 people since 2023. Awad said nearly 45,500 people have been dire...
