RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Cairo on Monday for talks with Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi. The visit “comes as part of joint coordination between the Palestinian and Egyptian leaderships,” Ambassador Dia al-Louh said in statements cited by the state news agency Wafa. The two leaders will...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan could lose its archaeological treasure, which includes remnants of the thousands-year-old Mohenjo Daro and Mahargarh civilizations, to the floods that have inundated a third of the country. Mohenjo Daro, located in the Larkana district of the southern Sindh province, has been hit particularly hard by the...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – It took 13 years of perseverance and struggles for Bilal Ahmad, a mathematics teacher in the capital of Indian-occupied Kashmir, to produce the region’s first solar-electric automobile that operates completely on solar energy and can also be charged with electrical energy. Ahmad, 40, became an overnight...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has five options in hand in case the US reaches a nuclear deal with Iran, according to an expert. Yonatan Freeman, a professor of political science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, told Anadolu Agency that Israel does not have any qualms about the US edging closer to a deal with […]
NUR SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AA) – The wildfire in northern Kazakhstan has killed one person and damaged 108 houses, according to the country’s Emergency Situations Ministry. The forest fire in the northern Kostanay region also spread to the adjacent villages, reported the ministry. Emergency Situations Minister Yuri Ilyin said the fire is co...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh summoned Myanmar’s ambassador on Sunday — for the third time in two weeks — to protest against the violation of its airspace. Myanmar’s Ambassador in Dhaka U Aung Kyaw Moe was summoned to the State Guest House Padma in the capital Dhaka after two mortar shells fired by Myanmar’s forces […]...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – A multi-national military exercise kicked off in Jordan on Sunday, according to the Jordanian military. Forces from 29 countries, including the United States, are taking part in the Eager Lion 2022, military spokesman Mustafa Hiyari told a press conference. He said the 10-day training aims to raise preparedness and gain fi...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq’s Parliament Speaker Mohammad al-Halbousi on Sunday called for setting a date for early elections amid tension over failure to form a new government. The call came one day after Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi urged the country’s political parties to hold a new round of national dialogue on Monday to resolve Iraq’s [&hell...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Hamas-run authorities in the Gaza Strip executed two people suspected of spying for Israel, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday. A ministry statement said one of the suspects had worked with Israeli intelligence service since 2001 and provided Tel Aviv with information that led to the death of two people. […...
BERLIN (AA) – Israel is “deeply concerned” about a possible nuclear agreement between world powers and Iran, its President Isaac Herzog said on Sunday. Speaking alongside German President Frank Walter Steinmeier in Berlin, Herzog said they are closely following the ongoing talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. “We’re extremely wor...
