LONDON (AA): German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius has cancelled a trip to Iraq due to security concerns following protests in Baghdad over the desecration of the Quran, local media said Sunday. Pistorius was advised by German security officials to cancel his trip, Germany’s DPA news agency reported, citing the Defense Ministry. The decision...
Nablus, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials said Saturday, in what the army described as a “car ramming attempt” near Nablus. Fawzi Mukhalifa, 18, “was killed by the occupation (Israeli) bullets in the town of Sebastia” late on Friday, th...
WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump’s 2017 ban on Muslims entering the country continues to affect family reunifications. Although the ban was lifted when President Joe Biden took office in 2021, the additional vetting requirements are still causing delays in processing refugee cases. Delays worsened when embassies around t...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Senate gears up for a crucial debate on the annual National Defense Authorization Act, known as the NDAA. Among the hotly contested topics in the debate will be the future of Guantanamo Bay, the notorious U.S. military prison. The prison was established during the War on Terror in 2002 within the […]
ISLAMABAD (AA): A US lawmaker has proposed that his government exchange two high-profile prisoners. The first is a Pakistani national, Aafia Siddiqui, who is serving an 86-year prison sentence in Texas for the attempted murder of a US soldier in Afghanistan. The second is Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA run a […]
LONDON (AA): After this June was declared the warmest on the over-170-year record, 2023 is likely to set a new high annual temperature average, according to new research. “Globally, June 2023 was the warmest June since directly measured instrumental records began in 1850, breaking the record previously set in June 2022,” according ...
ISTANBUL (AA): Russia on Monday suspended the Black Sea grain deal, the Kremlin said. “The Black Sea agreements ceased to be valid today. As the President of the Russian Federation (Vladimir Putin) said earlier, the deadline is July 17. Unfortunately, the part relating to Russia in this Black Sea agreement has not been implemented so […...
ANKARA (AA): The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and India on Saturday agreed to settle trade in local currencies. UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi witnessed the exchange of three memoranda of understanding (MoU) between the UAE and India, the Emirati news agency, WAM, reported on Saturday. Th...
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 ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA): The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has warned that the situation across the Blue Line between Lebanon and Israel is “extremely sensitive.” On Wednesday, three members of Hezbollah group were injured by Israeli fire near the border village of Al-Bustan, according to Lebanese media. “We a...
