RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – For 106 days, Palestinian Ahmad Hreish from the West Bank city of Ramallah has languished in a prison in Jericho known locally as “the slaughterhouse,” where Palestinian political detainees are sent and tortured by the forces of the “Palestinian Preventive Security (PPS).” Hreish’s family shar...
ANKARA (AA) – UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland has condemned the daily loss of life in the Israel-occupied West Bank amid Israeli military raids in the occupied territory. “He is gravely concerned by the deteriorating security situation and the unacceptable daily loss of life in the West Bank,” UN [...
ISTANBUL, Türkiye / ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – China’s President Xi Jinping on Friday called for the smooth construction and operation of major projects associated with the multi-billion-dollar China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Xi made these comments during a meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in Samarkand, ...
SAMARKAND, Uzbekistan (AA) – The international community’s sustained support in the rehabilitation and reconstruction of flood-ravaged Pakistan is a matter of justice, not just solidarity, the country’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif told Anadolu Agency in an interview on Friday. He proposed “debt swaps for climate action,R...
ANKARA (AA) – A higher number of Indian Muslims are jobless and face discrimination in accessing salaried jobs and income through self-employment compared to their non-Muslim fellow citizens, according to the UK’s independent charitable organizations focusing on global poverty alleviation. In rural areas, unemployment among Muslims increased b...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid on Thursday met with United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan at his office in Jerusalem. A statement by Lapid’s office said the Israeli premier had, at first, a session between him and the top Emirati diplomat before holding an expanded meeting with [&hel...
Samarkand, Uzbekistan (AFP): Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping have gathered with other Asian leaders in the ancient Silk Road city of Samarkand for a regional summit aimed at challenging Western global influence. Xi and Putin will be joined by the leaders of India, Pakistan, Turkiye, Iran and several other countries f...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The death toll from devastating floods across Pakistan jumped to 1,481, with 54 fresh casualties, including 18 children, in the past 24 hours, official statistics showed on Wednesday. Of the fresh fatalities, 44 were reported from the southern Sindh province, whereas eight people lost their lives in flood-related mishaps in so...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Russia is feeding its people a “steady diet of lies” to conceal the true costs it is incurring as a result of its more than half-year war against Ukraine, the State Department has said. Spokesman Ned Price said Russian President Vladimir Putin and senior officials “have done everything they can” ...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called on Azerbaijan and Armenia to de-escalate tensions amid recent fighting which claimed lives on both sides. “The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about reports of renewed fighting along the Armenian-Azerbaijani border,” his spokesman Stephane Dujarric ...
