Netanyahu rejects 2nd phase of Gaza ceasefire
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NEW YORK (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met the president of the World Jewish Congress in New York on Monday. The meeting with Ronald Lauder took place at the Turkevi Center in Manhattan. It was closed to the media. Earlier, Erdogan met with representatives of various Jewish organizations, including the Conference of Presi...
NEW YORK (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stressed the need for maintaining peace in his talks Monday with his Azerbaijani and Armenian counterparts in New York, said the State Department. “Blinken hosted Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan and Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov for the first direct talks...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Another 27 people have lost their lives in flood-hit areas of Pakistan amid reports of an outbreak of waterborne diseases in the affected regions, officials and local media said. During the last 24 hours, 15 people died as houses collapsed in different areas of southern Sindh province, bringing the total number of […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – More than 300 people have been killed and over 100,000 people displaced in Nigeria due to floods triggered by torrential rains. Speaking to reporters, Mustapha Habib Ahmed, the director general of the National Emergency Management Agency, said Monday that many residents are going through a difficult period. Over 100...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian judicial authorities have detained Ennahda deputy leader Ali Laarayedh after an investigation into terrorism accusations, according to his defense lawyer. Laarayedh and Ennahda chief Rached Ghannouchi were questioned on Monday on suspicions of sending Tunisians to conflict zones overseas to engage in violent acti...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Hundreds of Palestinians staged a protest demonstration in the northern West Bank to condemn the arrest of an activist detained by Israel. On Monday, Israeli security forces detained Musab Shtayyeh in the West Bank city of Nablus, according to a member of his family, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Shtayyeh, [&h...
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): In a war-scarred Beirut heritage house turned museum, archives of Lebanon’s troubled past fuse with artistic depictions of its grim present to portray a country seemingly in perpetual turmoil. Newspaper clippings, film negatives and diary entries from the years before Lebanon’s 1975-1990 civil war tell a stor...
Tehran, Iran (AFP): Fresh protests broke out Monday in Iran over the death of a young woman who had been arrested by the “morality police” that enforces a strict dress code, local media reported. Public anger has grown since authorities on Friday announced the death of Mahsa Amini, 22, in a hospital after three days […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – For 106 days, Palestinian Ahmad Hreish from the West Bank city of Ramallah has languished in a prison in Jericho known locally as “the slaughterhouse,” where Palestinian political detainees are sent and tortured by the forces of the “Palestinian Preventive Security (PPS).” Hreish’s family shar...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli authorities have warned citizens against traveling abroad during the upcoming Jewish holidays, citing risk of potential attacks by Iran and ISIS. “In the last two years, Iran and its affiliates have been increasing their activities abroad with the aim of harming Israelis,” the counterterrorism division of the Israeli p...
