TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia’s Ennahda movement has renewed its call for rallying efforts to confront what it calls “coup” in the North African country. “The existing authority headed by [President] Kais Saied is responsible for spoiling political life and turning the economic crisis into a catastrophe that threatens the people’s ...
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AA) – Kazakhstan’s president has announced his candidacy for the newly formed “People’s Coalition” in the country’s upcoming early presidential election next month. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was nominated to run in the election, slated for Nov. 20, as the candidate of the coalition, formed of...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi has urged the leaders of the government and opposition parties to end the country’s ongoing political crisis and hold new elections. Addressing a joint session of the lower and upper chambers in Islamabad, the president, who is a member of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s part...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia’s main opposition leader has opposed the government’s proposed plan to bring back its citizens from a detention camp in Syria. Opposition leader Peter Dutton, after a meeting with Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO) Director-General Mike Burgess, said he believed that bringing back these women and...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AFP): Just a week ago, 34-year-old Ibrahim Traore was an unknown person, even in his native Burkina Faso. But in the space of a weekend, he catapulted himself from army captain to the world’s youngest leader — an ascent that has stoked hopes but also fears for a poor and chronically troubled […]
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi cleric and opposition leader Muqtada al-Sadr has announced the freezing of all his armed factions across Iraq, except the northern province of Salah al-Din. Saleh Mohamed al-Iraqi, a leader of the Sadr’s movement, said the influential cleric also “banned the use of weapons in all provinces except Salah al-Din and Sam...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah has been reappointed as Kuwait’s prime minister, according to the state news agency KUNA. Crown Prince Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah has issued a decree, asking Sheikh Ahmad to form a new government, KUNA said. On Sunday, the crown prince had accepted the resignation of the government led ...
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss said she is a “huge Zionist” and a “huge supporter of Israel,” a video shared online showed. The video, which was shared many times on social media platforms, shows Truss speaking at a Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) event during her party’s fall conference being held in […]...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Calm has prevailed in Burkina Faso since Monday morning after three tense days following a coup, witnesses told Anadolu Agency. Several people confirmed that there was a lull across the country. “Everything is calm in the city center. I haven’t seen any soldiers on the streets since the morning. The ne...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A Pakistani court has dismissed the contempt of court case against former Prime Minister Imran Khan. A five-member bench of the Islamabad High Court, headed by Chief Justice Athar Minallah, accepted Khan’s affidavit and dismissed the show-cause notice. The chief justice also praised Khan for going to the court of Additional Di...
