TEHRAN (AA): Iran and Saudi Arabia expressed satisfaction Saturday with the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. President Ibrahim Raisi received Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Faisal Bin Farhan, who is in Tehran on an official visit, according to Iran’s official news agency, IRNA. At a meeting held at the P...
KAMPALA, Uganda (AA): The death toll from an attack by rebels on a secondary school in western Uganda on the night of June 16 has risen to 41 after more bodies of students were found, according to officials. Selevest Mapoze, director of the Mpondwe-Lhubiriha border region, said that 41 bodies were removed from the school, […]
Tehran, Iran (AFP): Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan arrived Saturday in Tehran, Iranian media reported, in his first visit to Iran since a landmark rapprochement following a seven-year rupture. Saudi Arabia severed relations with Iran in 2016 after its embassy in Tehran and consulate in the northwestern city of M...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA): Iran and the US are ironing out details for a prisoner swap deal, according to Oman’s foreign minister. “I can say they are close,” Sayyid Badr Albusaidi told Al-Monitor news website in an interview. “This is probably a question of technicalities.” The top Omani diplomat said he senses seriousness on the part […]...
Nablus, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian fighter in the occupied West Bank Thursday, Palestinian officials said, as the army said it came under fire during an operation to demolish an apartment. The Palestinian health ministry said in a statement that Khalil Yahya Anis, 20, was “killed by live occupat...
Mandvi, India (AFP): Crashing waves pounded the coastline of India and Pakistan on Thursday, hours before the landfall of a powerful cyclone that has prompted mass evacuations. Nearly 150,000 people have fled the predicted path of Cyclone Biparjoy, which means “disaster” in Bengali, with meteorologists warning it could devastate ho...
ANKARA (AA): Sweden’s top NATO negotiator on Wednesday reiterated the country’s commitment to root outing the “PKK terrorist group.” Addressing a news conference in the Turkish capital Ankara, Oscar Stenstrom said: “Sweden is no safe haven for terrorism. We are no safe haven for PKK. We have stepped up our coopera...
Kano, Nigeria (AFP): More than 100 people drowned in north central Nigeria after a boat carrying families returning from a wedding sank in a river, police and local authorities said on Tuesday. Details about the accident in Kwara State were still emerging, but it was the latest boat tragedy in Nigeria where river capsizes are […]
BOGOTA, Colombia/TEHRAN, Iran (AA): Iran and Venezuela have the capacity to expand their bilateral trade volume to $20 billion, President Ebrahim Raisi said on Tuesday at a joint news conference with his counterpart Nicolas Maduro in Caracas. Raisi arrived in the Venezuelan capital early on Tuesday on the first leg of his three-nation tour of ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Rescue personnel Tuesday scrambled to relocate over 100,000 people from Pakistan’s southeastern coastal belt as cyclone Biparjoy drew closer. Over 35,000 people from the coastal areas of Pakistan have already been evacuated, while operations are underway to relocate another 65,000, Salman Shah, the director genera...
