KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait (AA) – Kuwait will hold parliamentary elections on Sept. 29, the state news agency KUNA reported on Sunday. A decree was issued by Crown Prince Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Sabah calling on voters to elect members of a new 50-seat National Assembly. The Interior Ministry said it will accept applications to run in […]
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq’s influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Monday announced his total withdrawal from politics. “I declare that I have quit political work and withdrawn completely from politics,” al-Sadr said in a statement on twitter. The firebrand cleric also announced the closure of all institutions except his father’s shr...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Major pro-Indian political parties in Indian-occupied Kashmir are worried that allowing outsiders to vote in future local assembly elections will disempower the native population. The elections will be the first since the Indian government revoked the region’s autonomy in 2019, raising concerns that Mus...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – The death toll from clashes between rival militias in Tripoli rose to 32, Libyan health authorities said on Sunday. In a statement, the Health Ministry said 159 people were injured in the violence that rocked several districts in the Libyan capital. Calm prevailed in Tripoli on Sunday, one day after heavy […]
ALGERIA (AA) – Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have agreed to open a new page in bilateral relations between their countries based on mutual respect and interests after nearly a year of escalating tensions. Following a meeting at El Mouradia Palace, Tebboune held a joint press conference...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan on Friday summoned the Indian charge d’affaires in Islamabad to formally protest what Islamabad described as the “extrajudicial” killing of a Pakistani citizen in Indian-occupied Kashmir. According to a Foreign Ministry statement, Islamabad lodged a strong protest against the “extrajudicial” ki...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday said that gas is not the top agenda of his visit to Algeria. Instead, he announced fresh decisions regarding the movement of people between the two countries. “We have taken decisions regarding the movement of people, we are working together on sensitive issues rela...
ANKARA (AA) – Officials of Türkiye, Finland and Sweden will meet in Finland on Friday to discuss the NATO membership bids of the latter two countries. On June 28, the trio signed a memorandum at the NATO summit in Madrid to address Türkiye’s security concerns about Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership. For the implementation of […...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan has rejected New Delhi’s dismissal of the firing in March of an Indian missile that landed in Pakistani territory as “an accident.” The reaction came a day after New Delhi sacked the three Indian Air Force officers found responsible for the incident, which was handled by the two nuclear neighbors [&helli...
LAHORE, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s former Prime Minister and Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan was granted pre-arrest bail on Thursday by an Anti-Terrorism Court in Islamabad. In his speech during a rally on Aug. 20, Khan said he would take legal action against Islamabad’s police chief, and a judicial official who ordered t...
