Baghdad, Iraq – (AFP): Hundreds of supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr danced and sang in parliament Wednesday after storming Baghdad’s high-security Green Zone in protest over a rival bloc’s nomination for prime minister. Police fired barrages of tear gas in a bid to stop the protesters from breaching the gates ...
Tunis, Tunisia – (AFP): Tunisia’s main opposition alliance on Tuesday accused President Kais Saied’s electoral board of falsifying turnout figures, saying his referendum on a new constitution had “failed.” Tunisians voted on Monday on a draft charter that would give the president unchecked powers, a year after Sai...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisians have approved a new constitution in a referendum, the head of the country’s electoral commission said Tuesday, citing preliminary results. Farouk Bouasker, president of the Independent High Authority for Elections, said 94.6% of the participants in the referendum voted “yes” and 5.4% voted R...
ANKARA (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said late Monday that he spoke by phone with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia and called for progress towards peace and stability in the region amid a rapprochement between the two countries. Blinken on Twitter said he spoke with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev about the [&hellip...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed the re-election of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s son, Hamza Shehbaz, as the chief minister of Punjab, the country’s largest province, local media reported. After a three-day hearing in the capital Islamabad, a three-judge bench declared Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, a joint...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Tunisian National Salvation Front on Tuesday called on President Kais Saied to step down and pave the way for early general elections in the country. The major opposition coalition said in a statement that Saied failed to “obtain popular endorsement for his coup project” and thus lost justification to rema...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The interim Afghan government on Tuesday urged the US to fulfill its commitments made in the Doha agreement, unfreeze all the assets of Afghanistan unconditionally, and lift economic sanctions. Assuring that Afghanistan’s territory will not be used against anyone, acting Afghan Foreign Minister Maulvi Amir Khan Muttaqi told an ...
JERUSALEM (AA) –An Israeli government committee has approved in principle a fresh plan to construct settlement units in the southern part of occupied East Jerusalem, an Israeli NGO said on Tuesday. The plan includes the construction of 1,446 settlement homes in the Lower Aqueduct settlement in the Palestinian town of Sur Baher, and between the...
TAIZ, Yemen (AA) – Hundreds of Yemenis on Tuesday participated in a rally in Taiz to condemn continued violence in the city. Speaking at the rally which was organized by rights activists, human rights activist Faisal Al-Assali denounced the Houthi militia for “violations against civilians.” He said the agreement that the Houthis claim to...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Monday started an official visit to Morocco during which he is set to sign a memorandum of legal cooperation between the two countries. Israeli Ambassador to Morocco David Govrin tweeted: “We welcome Mr. Sa’ar, on his first official visit to Morocco, at the invit...
