ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye and Israel will mutually reappoint ambassadors, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu announced on Wednesday. “The steps we would take to normalize relations include mutually reappointing of ambassadors … Türkiye decided to appoint an ambassador to Israel, to Tel Aviv,” he told a news conferenc...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – A top electoral body official in Indian-occupied Kashmir has said people from any part of India “living ordinarily” in the region are eligible to vote in the elections for the local assembly likely to be held next year. The decision, which makes tens of thousands of laborers, workers, employees, [...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The only way to achieve a mutual return to the 2015 nuclear deal is for Iran to drop further unacceptable demands, the US State Department has said. “We have long called these demands extraneous. They have no place in Vienna. They have no place in the discussions regarding a potential return to […]
NEW DELHI (AA) – Political analysts and experts have raised concerns about the shrinking representation of Muslims in India’s mainstream politics. With the resignation in July of former Minority Affairs Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, there is no more Muslim representation in the 77-member Union Council of Ministers led by Prime Minister N...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli media has claimed that the former US President Donald Trump sent a secret letter to the then Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu authorizing his controversial annexation plan of Palestinian territories to Israel’s sovereignty. The Jerusalem Post newspaper said the three-page letter, dated January 26, 2020, sa...
PARIS (AA) – France has pulled the last of its troops out of Mali on August 15, bringing the country’s Operation Barkhane to an end. “This day at 1.00 p.m. (1300GMT), the last detachment of the Barkhane force present on Malian soil crossed the border between Mali and Niger,” said a press release by the […]
ANKARA (AA) – Iran said Monday the US administration had “verbally agreed” to two Iranian demands for reviving the 2015 nuclear agreement. “They need to adopt a realistic approach about guarantees,” Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian told a press conference in the capital Tehran. “Regarding the two other remaining issues, they have...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council has said it does not have the authority to dissolve the country’s parliament. On Wednesday, Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called on the council, Iraq’s highest judicial authority, to dissolve the assembly amid a deep political crisis in the country. The council said in a statement that it had [&hell...
Erie, United States (AFP): The man accused of stabbing Salman Rushdie at a literary event pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges on Saturday, as the severely injured author appeared to show signs of improvement in hospital. Hadi Matar, 24, was arraigned in court in New York state, with prosecutors outlining how Rushdie had been [&helli...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Saturday called for ending Israeli “crimes” in the occupied territories. The call came after an Israeli court ordered the demolition of a Palestinian school in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday. The school is in Area C in West Bank, which is under Israel’s full […...
