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...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli government officials failed to arrange an “urgent” phone call between Prime Minister Yair Lapid and US President Joe Biden, an Israeli TV reported. When asked by Israeli officials for the phone call, the White House replied that Biden was unavailable as he was on “vacation,” according to Channel 13. The channel [...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian inmates in Israel started a sit-in against the prison authorities, a non-profit group said on Thursday. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said all of the inmates left their cells and gathered in the prison yards. It added that the move is part of their “escalating program”...
ANKARA (AA) – A Russian missile attack on a train station in eastern Ukraine killed at least 25 people, local media reported on Thursday. Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Office of the President, said that the attack targeted the Chaplyne railway station in the Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Ukraine’s state news agency Ukrinfor...
DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif discussed bilateral relations in here on Wednesday. They also discussed efforts to combat terrorist, the emir’s office, Amiri Diwan, said in a statement. Sheikh Tamim underlined “the importance of building and developing bro...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq’s top judicial body has suspended its activities following a sit-in staged by supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr. In a statement, the Supreme Judicial Council said it decided to suspend all judicial activities after al-Sadr’s supporters staged a sit-in outside the gates of the body’s Baghdad headquarters to demand the diss...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The EU foreign policy chief on Tuesday said that a nuclear deal with Iran could be reached as early as this week. Earlier this month, the EU sent “a final text” to revive the 2015 deal, which would see Iran scale back its nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. “. […]
