TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisians began voting Monday in a referendum on a new constitution put forward by President Kais Saied. Polling stations opened at 6 a.m. local time (0500GMT). According to the Independent High Authority for Elections, over 9 million people are expected to take part in the referendum. Meanwhile, Saied accused parti...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh has welcomed a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that rejected preliminary objections of Myanmar and cleared the way for a Rohingya genocide case filed by The Gambia to proceed. The ruling rejected the four preliminary objections on legal and procedural grounds, according to a statemen...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – A group affiliated with al-Qaeda and ISIS claimed responsibility Saturday for two recent attacks in Mali, purportedly in response to Mali’s collaboration with mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group. An attack on a military base near Mali’s capital Bamako left a soldier dead on Friday. Seven attackers were shot dead ...
Tunis, Tunisia – (AFP): Tunisians are voting today on a constitution that would give President Kais Saied almost unchecked powers. This is a key moment in his plan to overhaul the political system in the country which was the birthplace of the Arab Spring. The referendum is taking place a year to the day after […]
Jisr ash Shughur, Syria – (AFP): A Russian air strike killed seven people, four of them children, in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib region on Friday, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the dead included four children “who are siblings… as a result of Russian air strikes”, in the Jisr al-Shu...
Tripoli, Libya – (AFP): At least 13 people have been killed in fighting that flared overnight between armed groups in Tripoli, emergency services said Friday, the latest violence to hit the Libyan capital in months of rising political tensions. The fighting had broken out after midnight in an area of parkland, sowing terror among Tripoli...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Droupadi Murmu was elected on Thursday the 15th president of India, according to an official announcement. Murmu, who defeated opposition nominee Yashwant Singh, is the first Indian president from a tribal community and is the second woman to hold the highest office in the country. She will succeed President Ram Nath [&h...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Three Syrian regime policemen were killed and two others wounded on Thursday in an attack targeting their patrol in the southwestern governorate of Daraa, according to the regime’s news agency, SANA. “An armed group attacked a police patrol with light weapons, followed by the explosion of an explosive device, ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Syrian regime on Wednesday severed diplomatic relations with Ukraine, according to the country’s Foreign Ministry. “The Syrian Arab Republic has decided to break diplomatic relations with Ukraine in conformity with the principle of reciprocity and in response to the decision of the Ukrainian government,” a foreign ministry of...
BAGHDAD (AA) – The Iraqi judiciary has launched an investigation into leaked audios attributed to former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in which he attacked Iraqi politicians. Iraqi journalist Ali Fadel earlier published audios allegedly attributed to al-Maliki during a meeting in which he termed Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as “murderer” and “...
