ANKARA (AA) – Malaysia’s key elections in six states have ended in a status quo outcome as Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government and the opposition alliance, Perikatan Nasional (PN), clinched three states each. Both the ruling and the opposition parties retained the states they governed before the polls, local English daily Mal...
Niamey, Niger (AFP): Niger’s detained president was seen by his doctor on Saturday, his entourage said amid mounting concern for his condition, while Nigerian religious leaders met the officers who seized power last month to try to defuse the crisis. The Muslim leaders visited the capital Niamey with the blessing of Nigerian President Bo...
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — AFP Malaysians in six states went to the polls on August 12 to vote for state assembly members in elections widely seen as a barometer of support for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government. While the elections are unlikely to immediately affect Anwar’s current two-thirds majority in parliamen...
Islamabad, Pakistan – AFP: A little-known senator from Pakistan’s least-populous province was named caretaker prime minister Saturday to see the country through to an election due in months. Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, from Balochistan province, takes on a country that has been wracked by political and economic instability for months, wit...
ISLAMABAD (AA): Pakistan’s Supreme Court has struck down a law concerning court judgements, terming it unconstitutional. The decision on the Supreme Court (Review of Judgements and Orders) Act 2023 was reserved by a three-member bench on June 19. The law provided a right to appeal under Article 184(3), which gives the court power to assume [&h...
Kuwait City, Kuwait — AFP Inside Kuwait’s national assembly, 41-year-old lawmaker Dawood Marafie is a fresh face, determined to live up to the hopes of a younger generation exhausted by perpetual political turmoil in the Gulf state. He is among 12 newcomers to the legislature, most of them young reformists, following the election i...
KIGALI, Rwanda / MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA): Thousands of coup supporters yelling anti-French slogans on Friday marched near the French military base on the outskirts of Niger’s capital Niamey to denounce the continued presence of French troops in the country. Social media videos showed protestors raising Russian flags – something seen in e...
ISTANBUL (AA): Pakistan President Arif Alvi has asked the outgoing prime minister and opposition leader to nominate a “suitable person” for appointment as caretaker premier by Saturday, August 12. Alvi, in a letter to Shehbaz Sharif and Raja Riaz, said the Constitution mandates nomination of the caretaker prime minister within thre...
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement on Thursday buried one of its members who was killed a day earlier when a truck carrying ammunition belonging to the Iran-backed group overturned near Beirut, sparking clashes. Hundreds turned out for the funeral of Ahmad Ali Kassas in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah strong...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Pakistan’s political parties are in the process of nominating a caretaker government after President Arif Alvi dissolved Parliament on the advice of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. The constitution requires that a caretaker government be formed three months before general elections. Sharif and opposition leader...
