Washington, United States (AFP): Joe Biden and his Israeli counterpart Isaac Herzog discussed tensions over a controversial judicial shake-up in Israel. Earlier this month, Biden told CNN in an interview that Netanyahu presides over “one of the most extremist… cabinets that I’ve seen.” Biden hosted Herzog in the Oval Of...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Türkiye got one of the lucrative contracts to supply its famed drones to Saudi Arabia. Both countries signed several memorandums of understanding in many fields, including energy, direct investment and defense industries during the visit of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Saudi Arabia. As reported by Saudi state...
Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSantis, who is seeking the 2024 presidential nomination, has vowed to cut funding to U.N. agencies that target Israel. Speaking at an event organized by Christians United for Israel Summit in Virginia, he said the U.S. will not provide funding to the U.N. if it targets Israel. DeSantis named the U.N. […...
WASHINGTON – Former U.S. President Donald Trump may face a third indictment, this time for attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. Trump said he received a letter from Justice Department officials ordering him to face a grand jury investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the Capitol. Trump has been indicted ...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko called for a peaceful protest on Saturday after authorities blocked a planned rally to publicly confirm his nomination as a candidate in upcoming presidential elections. Sonko on Thursday “was unanimously voted in as the PASTEF-Patriots’ candidate for the February 25,...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Two leading opponents of Tunisian President Kais Saied are to be freed after spending more than five months in jail, their defence committee announced Thursday. Chaima Issa, a member of the main opposition coalition the National Salvation Front, was arrested in February along with former minister Lazhar Akremi. Both were ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Indicating that general elections in Pakistan will be held on time in October, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said Thursday that his government would dissolve next month and hand over the reigns to a caretaker setup. The current five-year term of National Assembly, or the lower house of the bicameral parliament, ends on ...
KARACHI / ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): The Legislative Assembly of Pakistan’s northern Gilgit-Baltistan region elected a new leader of the house on Thursday amid some legislators’ boycott. Haji Gulbar Khan, a legislator from a splinter group of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, was elected ...
WASHINGTON – FBI Director Christopher Wray has denied allegations that his agency incited former President Trump’s supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol. Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee, Wray said such claims are ridiculous. “This notion that somehow the violence at the Capitol on January 6 was part of some ope...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): The ruling and the opposition parties in Bangladesh held big rallies in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday in order to show their strength ahead of the national election expected to be held in January 2024. The rallies were held within a distance of one and a half kilometers in Dhaka. Tens of […]
