ISLAMABAD (AA) – Amid rising political tensions in Pakistan, President Arif Alvi has refused to sign a legislation recently approved by the parliament that limits some key powers of the country’s top judge. The President’s Office said in a statement that Alvi has returned the Supreme Court (Practice and Procedure) Bill, 2023, to the parl...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Yemeni government said Saturday a prisoner swap with Houthi rebels has been postponed until April 14. The swap was scheduled to take place on April 11, but was postponed upon a request from the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), Yemeni negotiator Majid Fada’el tweeted. “The ICRC asked for […]
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon will lodge an official complaint with the UN Security Council over the deliberate Israeli aggression that took place early Friday, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. The ministry said Israel had violated Lebanon’s sovereignty by bombing areas in southern Lebanon. “Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Muslim world should be united against Israel’s attacks in Palestine, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a conversation with his Iranian counterpart on Friday. Erdogan and Ebrahim Raisi spoke over phone and discussed Türkiye-Iran relations and regional issues, including Israeli attacks on the Al-Aqsa Mo...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Several houses as well as health and educational facilities were damaged on Friday in an Israeli attack on the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian residents and officials. The Israeli bombing also caused damage to a number of agricultural lands and vehicles, according to reporters on the scene. The Israeli ra...
GAZA – ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas discussed Friday the latest Israeli aggression against Palestinians and Lebanon with a senior Russian official. The head of the movement’s international relations office, Moussa Abu Marzouk, talked with Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov about “the Zionist aggression against the Gaza...
WASHINGTON (AA) – CIA Director Bill Burns paid an unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia, expressing frustration about Riyadh’s recent rapprochement with Iran, according to a report. Burns told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman that the US felt “blindsided” by Riyadh’s rapprochement with Iran and Syria — Washington’s gl...
LONDON (AA) – Hundreds of demonstrators staged a protest Friday outside the Israeli Embassy in London against attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied East Jerusalem. The emergency protest was called for by various NGOs and Palestinian solidarity campaign groups, including Friends of Al Aqsa, Palestinian Forum in Britain and Stop the Wa...
Beijing, China (AFP): French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he was counting on his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to “bring Russia to its senses” over its war in Ukraine. The French president, who arrived on Wednesday for a three-day state visit, has made clear he is seeking to dissuade China from supporting Russia̵...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli army on Thursday said it detected a number of rockets fired from Gaza but that all failed to cross into Israel. In a statement, the Israeli army said a total of seven projectiles it detected were surface-to-air rockets, all of which exploded in the air, adding that two of them […]
