TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s deputy minister for industry, mine and trade was attacked by unidentified assailants while heading toward home on Thursday, according to local media reports. Mohammad Mahdi Baradaran came under attack near his residence in Tehran, Eghtesad Online news agency said, adding that he was “hit with a hard...
TEHRAN (AA) – Mehran Samak, a 27-year-old man, was killed in Iran’s northern Gilan province on Tuesday, shortly after the country’s football team was knocked out of the FIFA World Cup following a 2-0 defeat against the US. The incident occurred in the port city of Anzali, situated along the Caspian Sea, when Samak and [&helli...
ISTANBUL (AA) – As Qatar makes history as the first Muslim country to host the FIFA World Cup, the language of Western media outlets about the tournament is being criticized as racist, Islamophobic, and orientalist. Western criticisms of Qatar are “not about human rights, and the inconsistency is very clear. It is the old orientali...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A former ISIS leader was killed in Syria’s Daraa province in October, US Central Command (CENTCOM) said on Wednesday. Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi was killed in mid-October during a Free Syrian Army operation, the command said, noting “ISIS remains a threat to the region.” “CENTCOM and ou...
JENIN, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian was killed on Wednesday by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank, according to the Health Ministry. A ministry statement said the fatality occurred in the town of Ya’bad in the northern West Bank when a Palestinian succumbed to critical injuries he sustained from Israeli fire. Israeli forces [&hellip...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Tuesday urged world leaders to prevent a vote at the UN General Assembly to request an advisory opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. In a statement, Lapid’s office said he sent letters to leaders of [&hellip...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The United Nations Children’s agency, UNICEF, said Monday that around 110,000 children and adolescents aged 0 and 19 died from AIDS-related causes last year. Ahead of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1, UNICEF released its latest global snapshot on children and HIV/AIDS. Another 310,000 were newly infected, bringing the...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden is “monitoring” ongoing civil unrest in China sparked by the country’s restrictive COVID-19 lockdowns, the White House said on Monday. Biden is “staying up on what’s going on. He’s monitoring this. We all are,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirb...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Millions of people in Bangladesh lost their homes and livelihoods this year due to the effects of climate change, which is causing an unstoppable internal migration, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday. Over 7.1 million Bangladeshis were displaced by climate change in 2022, said the WHO, assessing the...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared that his country is determined to root out the Kurdistan nationalist PKK group, which according to the Turkish government also threatens the territorial integrity of Syria and Iraq. “We are determined to root out this ‘terrorist organization’, which poses a threat to the t...
