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KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) -Chad’s military leader, Mahamat Idriss Deby Itno, has been named the nation’s transition president and will govern for a non-renewable two years transition period until elections. The announcement was made at the conclusion of a National Sovereign Inclusive Dialogue which was launched Aug. 20. At a ceremony in the capital,...
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AA) – Kyrgyzstan canceled the military drill of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the country’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday. Kyrgyzstan decided to call off the “Indestructible Brotherhood-2022” military drill of the CSTO military alliance that was scheduled to be held on its territory from...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Two Bangladeshi citizens were shot dead Sunday allegedly by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in two separate incidents along the border, officials said. The men were shot dead in the southwestern Satkhira and western Chuadanga border districts of Bangladesh when they were allegedly trying to cross the border ille...
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 ...
