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 […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Leaders of the East African regional bloc Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) met Monday to discuss the conflict in Sudan. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed hosted the meeting, which was chaired by Kenyan President William Ruto. The regional bloc called on the parties to the conflict in Sudan to ...
NEW DELHI – The Supreme Court of India will begin hearing petitions challenging the revocation of special status for Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir from the second of August. The Indian government had revoked this constitutional special status and divided the state into two centrally administered areas four years ago. The Constitu...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA): Sudan’s Foreign Ministry has rejected a proposal by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to deploy peacekeepers in the country to stop the nearly three-month-old war between the Sudanese army and Rapid Support Forces (RSF). In a statement Tuesday, the ministry condemned any attempt to deploy forces in Sud...
WASHINGTON – From filing lawsuits to threatening disinformation researchers, Republicans are bracing up for the 2024 elections. Republicans have put pressure on researchers through a House subcommittee investigation as well. They have long alleged that major technology platforms unfairly target conservative votes. But research has produced li...
WASHINGTON – Two advocacy groups are launching a campaign to disqualify former President Donald Trump from running for another term. Free Speech for People and Mi Familia Vota are planning rallies and dropping banners to advocate for Trump’s legal disqualification. They are invoking Section 3 of the 14th Amendment, which prohibits ...
