RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco announced on Tuesday that just weeks after the Sept. 8 devastating earthquake, contributions to a special bank account for the victims had reached about $1 billion. “Total proceeds reached 10 billion dirhams (about $1 billion), two weeks after the special account was set up,” Abdellatif Jouahri, governor of ...
TORONTO (AA) – The UN Special Envoy for Afghanistan said Tuesday that dialogue and engagement with the Taliban administration does not mean condoning its policies. “On the contrary: dialogue and engagement are how we are attempting to change these policies,” said Roza Otunbayeva at the Afghanistan session held at the UN Security Co...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Bahrain’s military command said Monday that a drone attack by the Houthi rebel group killed one of its officers and a soldier along the border between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. The statement, cited by Bahrain’s state news agency BNA, said the victims “were martyred while performing their sacred national duty to defend...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians continued their protests near a border fence with Israel for the ninth consecutive day on Monday to decry Israeli settler incursions into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. Protesters waved Palestinian flags and set tires ablaze amid chants condemning settler raids into the fla...
ANKARA (AA) – The successful completion of Azerbaijan’s recent victory in Karabakh inspires pride, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said. “It is a matter of pride that the operation was successfully completed in a short period of time, with utmost sensitivity to the rights of civilians,” Erdogan told a joint n...
Sarmin, Syria – AFP Two civilians were killed on Saturday after government forces fired rockets that struck a displaced persons’ camp in Syria’s rebel-held northwest, rescuers and an AFP correspondent said. “Two civilians were killed (an elderly man and a woman) and two others were injured (a child in critical condition...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia has called for a just solution to the Palestinian cause to guarantee security in the Middle East region. “The security of the Middle East region necessitates the expedited pursuit of a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian issue,” Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan said in a speech to […]...
United Nations, United States – AFP Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the United Nations on Friday that his country is on the “cusp” of establishing relations with Saudi Arabia and said the Palestinians would not get a “veto.” Netanyahu said agreements in 2020 to normalize relations with three other A...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Anti-Muslim comments made in India’s parliament by a ruling party lawmaker against a member of the opposition have sparked outrage on both sides of the political aisle. The video from the lower house (Lok Sabha) of parliament of Ramesh Bidhuri, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker representing Delhi, using offen...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged cash-strapped Pakistan to increase its income through taxing the country’s rich, and protect the vulnerable in order to ensure economic stability. The call was reiterated by IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva who met Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister...
