RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A teenaged Palestinian detainee on Friday succumbed to his wounds in an Israeli hospital. In a statement, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)-run Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said Mohammad Ghawadra, 17, from the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, underwent an opera...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq’s parliament on Thursday elected Abdul Latif Rashid as the country’s new president after he secured more votes than incumbent Barham Salih. Rashid received 162 votes, while his predecessor Salih received only 99 votes, according to the official Iraqi news agency. A second round of voting was held after the...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s prime minister Shehbaz Sharif has made a “meaningful” dialogue offer to long-time rival India and said he is “absolutely ready” to move on for peace, and prosperity in the region. Addressing the 6th summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia in Kazakhstan, Shehbaz Sh...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Facing a backlash from the US, Saudi Arabia has denied accusations that political motives were behind the decision by oil producer group OPEC+ to cut production by 2 million barrels a day. “Saudi Arabia does not politicize oil. We don’t see oil as a weapon. We see oil as our commodity. Our […]
Algiers, Algeria (AFP): The European Union’s energy commissioner has hailed a “long-term strategic partnership” with Algeria as the bloc turns to Africa’s biggest gas exporter to fill a gap left by Russian supplies. “As the relationship with Russia, so far EU’s biggest gas supplier, is irreversibly broken, w...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai visited a school in the southern port city of Karachi on Tuesday, stressing the need for improvement in the quality of education, particularly for girls. Yousafzai, who is also the “UN Messenger of Peace” with a special focus on girls’ education, is visiting Pakistan to assess...
Kashmiri pro-freedom leader Altaf Ahmed Shah, who had been in prison for the past five years for advocating the right to self-determination for Kashmiris, passed away on Monday night, a few days after he was diagnosed with late-stage renal cancer, according to his family. Altaf Ahmed Shah, 66-year-old, was a leader of a prominent pro-freedom ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Malaysia’s Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob on Monday dissolved the parliament, setting the country on the path to early elections. The general elections to the 222-seat 15th parliament must be held within 60 days from now. Yaakob announced the dissolution of the parliament in a special address, saying that the change of [&he...
ANKARA (AA) – Iranian state television was hacked Saturday by a hacktivist group while its main news program was being broadcast. A speech by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was briefly interrupted with Khamenei’s picture, surrounded by flames, next to images of Mahsa Amini and three women who were allegedly killed during pro...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s President Arif Alvi has urged the leaders of the government and opposition parties to end the country’s ongoing political crisis and hold new elections. Addressing a joint session of the lower and upper chambers in Islamabad, the president, who is a member of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s part...
