Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): The final results of a controversial referendum in Tunisia showed 94.6 percent of those who cast ballot favored the new constitution, the electoral authority said Tuesday. Voters overwhelmingly approved the new constitution, the electoral board said, officially announcing definitive results from the July 25 poll. The char...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The only way to achieve a mutual return to the 2015 nuclear deal is for Iran to drop further unacceptable demands, the US State Department has said. “We have long called these demands extraneous. They have no place in Vienna. They have no place in the discussions regarding a potential return to […]
BAGHDAD (AA) – Influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has postponed a planned mass protest in Iraq on Saturday until further notice. “I announce that the Saturday protest has been postponed until further notice,” al-Sadr said in a statement. “The people will continue their sit-in,” he, however, added. The firebrand cleric ha...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Political analysts and experts have raised concerns about the shrinking representation of Muslims in India’s mainstream politics. With the resignation in July of former Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, there is no more Muslim representation in the 77-member Union Council of Ministers led by Prime Minister N...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid arrived in Amman on Tuesday for talks with Jordanian officials. Bin Rashid held talks with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi where they discussed bilateral cooperation and a host of issues, including developments in Palestine. “The meeting was an opportunity to discuss c...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army said Monday it had destroyed a tunnel dug by Palestinian group Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Military spokesperson Ella Waweya said the tunnel was dug from inside the northern Gaza Strip towards Israel. The tunnel did not cross through a security barrier erected by Israel on Gaza border, the […]
ANKARA (AA) – Iran said Monday the US administration had “verbally agreed” to two Iranian demands for reviving the 2015 nuclear agreement. “They need to adopt a realistic approach about guarantees,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told a press conference in the capital Tehran. “Regarding the two other remaining issues, they have...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council has said it does not have the authority to dissolve the country’s parliament. On Wednesday, Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on the council, Iraq’s highest judicial authority, to dissolve the assembly amid a deep political crisis in the country. The council said in a statement that it had [&hell...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Hundreds of Sudanese rallied on Sunday in support of a political initiative backed by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan who led last year’s military coup, AFP correspondents said. The initiative, known as “The Call of Sudan’s People”, was launched last month by renowned Sufi religious leader Al-Ta...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Saturday called for ending Israeli “crimes” in the occupied territories. The call came after an Israeli court ordered the demolition of a Palestinian school in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. The school is in Area C in West Bank, which is under Israel’s full […...
