GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland arrived in the Gaza Strip on Thursday for talks with Palestinian officials. The envoy crossed into Gaza from Israel through the Erez terminal, a local security source said. No information was provided about the meetings the UN envoy ...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – A prominent Yemeni judge was killed on Thursday, one day after being kidnapped in the rebel-held capital Sanaa. Muhammad Hamran, a member of the Supreme Court, Yemen’s highest judicial authority, was abducted by unidentified gunmen outside his house in Sanaa on Wednesday. Local media later said the judge was killed. In [&he...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – An activist from Bangladesh’s main opposition political party was killed and nearly 100 others were injured during a clash with police on Thursday in the country’s central industrial area of Narayanganj, according to local and official sources. The clash reportedly broke out when activists from the Banglade...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan has received $1.16 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) under its bailout package, the country’s central bank confirmed. “This will help improve SBP’s (State Bank of Pakistan) foreign exchange reserves and will also facilitate the realization of other planned inflows from multilateral and bilateral...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A court in Pakistan on Thursday granted pre-arrest bail to former Prime Minister Imran Khan in a terrorism case. Khan appeared before the anti-terrorism court in the capital Islamabad that granted him interim bail in four new provisions added by the local police in a case registered against him last month. According […]...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The United Nations has called for elections to break the current impasse in Libya following clashes between two rival militias in the capital Tripoli which claimed dozens of lives. ”The ongoing stalemate and continued delays in implementing the electoral process pose a growing threat to security in and around ...
Washington, United States (AFP): President Joe Biden faced intense criticism for the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan but one year later both he and the United States have largely turned the page, even as the war-ravaged country still faces mounting challenges. Biden put out a written statement to mourn the 13 US soldiers killed on August [...
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...
ANKARA (AA) – Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday called on his supporters to leave Baghdad’s Green Zone and apologized to the Iraqis after violence in the capital. “I apologize to the Iraqi people who are greatly affected by what is happening and criticize the revolution of the Sadrist movement and call for withdrawal from […]
KUWAIT CITY (AA) – Registration has opened in Kuwait for potential candidates to run for next month’s parliamentary elections. The registration process will continue for ten days until September 7. Kuwait has set September 29 for electing a new 50-seat National Assembly, a few weeks after Crown Prince Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah dissolved ...
