WASHINGTON (AA) – Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) attempted to seize an unmanned naval vessel operating in the Persian Gulf, the US military said Tuesday. Gen. Michael Kurilla, the commander of US Central Command, said the “professionalism and competence” of the crew of the USS Thunderbolt, a naval patro...
Beersheba, Israel (AFP): An Israeli court on Tuesday sentenced the former Gaza head of a major US-based aid agency to 12 years in prison for funnelling millions of dollars to Hamas. The Beersheba district court in southern Israel issued a sentence of “12 years’ prison time, less the detention” already served for World Vision&...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US administration has announced an additional $30 million to assist Pakistan as it recovers from mass flooding that has killed over 1,000 people. The funding will flow through USAID to local partners. The international development agency said the assistance will prioritize “urgently needed support for food, nu...
ANKARA (AA) – Azerbaijan has called for international pressure on Armenia to explain the fate of thousands of its citizens who disappeared during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. “Today is #InternationalDayoftheDisappeared. Almost 3 decades, fate of 3.890 Azerbaijanis, who went missing as a result of aggression by Armenia, is unknown,” Azerbaij...
PARIS (AA) – France’s top court has green-lighted the expulsion of prominent imam Hassan Iquioussen, the country’s interior minister has announced. “The Council of State validates the expulsion of Mr. Iquioussen who holds and propagates in particular anti-Semitic remarks and contrary to equality between women and men,” Gerald...
Sukkur, Pakistan (AFP): Aid efforts ramped up across flooded Pakistan on Tuesday to help tens of millions of people affected by relentless monsoon rains that have submerged a third of the country and claimed more than 1,100 lives. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called the flooding “the worst in the history of Pakistan”, adding it wo...
Baghdad, Iraq (AFP): Iraqi President Barham Saleh on Tuesday encouraged early legislative elections to settle a political crisis that escalated into deadly clashes this week, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more. Early elections, less than a year after the last polls, have been a key demand of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr, whose supp...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Another 36 people were claimed dead in different rain and flood-related mishaps across Pakistan over the past 24 hours, pushing the overall tally to 1,162, according to the official statistics released on Tuesday. Of the latest fatalities, 19 were reported from northeastern Punjab province, whose southern distric...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The UN and Pakistan’s government have issued a flash appeal for $160 million to cope with the devastation caused by unprecedented rains and floods in the South Asian country, which also claimed nearly 1,200 people’s lives. The appeal was jointly issued by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Pakistani Foreig...
NEW DELHI (AA) – A top Indian court has closed all proceedings related to the 2002 riots targeting Muslims in the western state of Gujarat, which killed over a thousand Muslims, as well as the 1992 demolition of the Babri Masjid. Hearing the 2002 Gujarat riots case, a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court of […]
