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WASHINGTON (AA) – The US House of Representatives voted along party lines Thursday to remove one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress from her seat on the influential Foreign Affairs Committee. The 218-211 vote saw all Democrats vote in opposition to removing Ilhan Omar from the panel. Nearly all of the chamber’s [&hel...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisia’s main opposition coalition urged a united front against President Kais Saied after just 11.3 percent of Tunisians voted Sunday in a second-round poll for a toothless parliament in the politically divided nation. “Almost 90 percent of Tunisian voters ignored this piece of theatre and refused to be invo...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – The United States has announced a restriction of visas to Nigerians weeks ahead of general elections in the African nation. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said in a statement: “To support Nigeria’s upcoming elections, today I am announcing visa restrictions for those involved in undermining democracy in ...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Leader of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, Rached Ghannouchi, has called for restoring democracy in the country. In an interview, Ghannouchi termed the positions of the European Union, the US and Canada on Tunisia’s democratic transition as “positive”. “We do not wait for foreign armies to support democracy in Tunisia,” Gh...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Police in Pakistan have arrested Fawad Chaudhry, the country’s former information minister and senior leader of a key opposition party, for allegedly threatening the country’s election authorities, officials and family members confirmed Wednesday. Chaudhry, who served as information minister from 2018 to 20...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The speaker of Pakistan’s lower house accepted the resignations of another 43 lawmakers from the key opposition party of former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday. Speaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf had accepted the resignations of 69 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) lawmakers from the National Assembly in two stages la...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Libya’s Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh has said the country’s stalled elections will be held before November after an agreement between the rival legislative chambers. On January 5, Saleh met in Egypt with Khaled al-Mishri, chairman of the Tripoli-based High Council of State (HCS), which acts as a senate, where they agreed to ...
Lagos, Nigeria (AFP): Nigerians are rushing to pick up their voting cards for next month’s presidential election, where three major candidates are vying to replace President Muhammadu Buhari. Nearly 10 million new voters have been registered for the February 25 ballot, of whom 84 percent are young people aged under 34. For the first time...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye has criticized Sweden along with other European states over tolerating what it considers “a continuing terrorist’ presence.” The country’s president has said that the extradition of “terrorists” is necessary for the Nordic country to earn the right to enter NATO. “We’v...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Leaders and activists of Bangladesh’s main opposition party said on Monday that a neutral caretaker government must be formed to conduct the country’s general elections, which are due to be held in December. As part of a series of protests, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) held a grand rally in the […]...
