TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s minister of finance and economic affairs arrived in Jeddah, a Saudi Arabian port city on the Red Sea, on Thursday in the first visit to the kingdom by a senior Iranian official since the restoration of diplomatic relations. Ehsan Khandouzi is leading a high-level economic delegation to Saudi Arabia, according [...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Loud explosions again rocked greater Khartoum on Wednesday, as fighting between Sudan’s warring generals showed no let-up despite talks in Saudi Arabia. “We were woken by explosions and heavy artillery fire,” one resident of Khartoum’s sister city of Omdurman told AFP. During the night, two huge e...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Pakistan’s former premier Imran Khan was arrested on Tuesday as he appeared for hearings at the Islamabad High Court. He has been charged in a number of cases that his party claims are politically motivated. Here is a timeline of events that led to Khan’s arrest. March 8, 2022: 13-party opposition alliance [...
Washington, United States (AFP): The United States on Monday criticized the Arab League decision to readmit Syria, saying that President Bashar al-Assad does not deserve normalization after the brutal civil war. “We do not believe that Syria merits readmission to the Arab League at this time,” State Department spokesman Vedant Pate...
Tehran, Iran (AFP): Iran on Monday said it is possible to salvage an agreement on reviving its nuclear deal if Western parties, particularly the US, put an end to repeated delays. It comes five years after the US withdrew from a 2015 nuclear deal that gave Iran relief from international sanctions in return for curbs […]
Islamabad, Pakistan (AFP): The foreign minister of Afghanistan’s Taliban government held talks Saturday with his counterparts from Pakistan and China during a rare visit abroad. Amir Khan Muttaqi is barred by international sanctions from leaving Afghanistan but was granted an exemption for a trip to Islamabad just days after the United N...
ISTANBUL (AA) — The UN has warned that nearly 19 million Sudanese will suffer from food insecurity because of ongoing fighting between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group. The World Food Program (WFP) expects that the “number of acutely food insecure people in Sudan will increase by between two and 2.5 [&hellip...
London, United Kingdom (AFP): UK police drew condemnation after arresting leading members of the anti-monarchy group Republic as they prepared to protest along the route of a procession for the coronation of King Charles III on Saturday. Officers from London’s Metropolitan Police force detained six organisers from the pressure group and ...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Air strikes and gunfire rocked the Sudanese capital Friday as fighting showed no signs of abating, despite the threat of renewed US sanctions and warnings of a “protracted” conflict. Hundreds have died including dozens of children in nearly three weeks of fighting between forces of Sudan’s de facto lead...
ANKARA (AA) – Russia will respond with “concrete actions” to an attempted drone attack on the Kremlin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday. Talking to reporters following a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Goa, India, which was broadcast live by several br...
