SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (AA) – The international community’s sustained support in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of flood-ravaged Pakistan is a matter of justice, not just solidarity, the country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told Anadolu Agency in an interview on Friday. He proposed “debt swaps for climate action,R...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday met with UAE’s Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan. “I was happy to meet Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, UAE foreign minister,” Netanyahu, who is currently the opposition leader in the Israeli parliament, said on Twitter. “These days we mark two years since ...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi met on Friday in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. The two leaders’ closed-door meeting took place on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit. No further information on the meeting was released. Erdogan attended the SCO leaders...
Jakarta, Indonesia (AFP): Sitting on the side of a Jakarta road anxiously waiting for his phone to ping, driver Muhammad Ridwan says it is now barely worth hurtling through thick smog every day to ferry passengers. A 30 percent hike in fuel prices spurred hundreds of drivers of the most popular ride-hailing apps to hold […]
Amman, Jordan (AFP): Jordanian mother Israa Raed said she was indescribably happy after emergency workers rescued her four-month-old daughter Malak from the rubble of a collapsed building in the capital Amman. “I knew it was her by her pink pyjamas,” Israa Raed, 26, said after waiting more than 24 hours for news of her only [&helli...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisia’s government and the country’s powerful UGTT union has signed a deal boosting public sector salaries, three months after a strike that paralysed the country. The deal involves a five percent annual hike to public sector wages every year until 2025. The head of the UGTT, Noureddine Taboubi, told reporte...
Kidal, Mali (AFP): On a sandy street in a northern Malian town, armed guards take turns at a checkpoint next to two unmarked pickup trucks as dusk falls and the sky slowly fills with stars. The men are not army troops but fighters from the Coordination of Azawad Movements (CMA) — a predominantly Tuareg alliance […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – China and Uzbekistan on Thursday signed agreements worth $15 billion in trade, investment, and financial and technical cooperation. The deals were inked during a meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Uzbek leader Shavkat Mirziyoyev on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Samark...
ANKARA (AA) – A higher number of Indian Muslims are jobless and face discrimination in accessing salaried jobs and income through self-employment compared to their non-Muslim fellow citizens, according to the UK’s independent charitable organizations focusing on global poverty alleviation. In rural areas, unemployment among Muslims increased b...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Senior Turkish and US officials met Thursday in Washington to discuss a range of issues, including cooperation and NATO. “Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Dr. Colin Kahl met with Turkish Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sedat Onal to discuss shared interests in improving regional stability, continuing defen...
