HATAY, Türkiye (AA) – The UN on Thursday sent 14 truckloads of humanitarian aid through Türkiye to Idlib, an opposition-held province in northwestern Syria. The trucks crossed into Syria through the Cilvegozu border gate in Türkiye’s southern Hatay province. The aid will be distributed among people in central Idlib and rural areas. In Septembe...
LONDON (AA) – Over 104,000 Ukrainians have settled in the UK through special visa schemes, British government figures showed on Thursday. The two visa initiatives are the Ukraine Family Scheme and the Homes for Ukraine Scheme. In a statement, the British government thanked the British public for their “generosity and goodwill.” “We would not b...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The World Bank will provide the World Food Program (WFP) with $100 million to address food insecurity in Sudan, the WFP said on Wednesday. The humanitarian organization said in a statement that the funds will be used to provide food and cash transfers for over two million people across the country. […]
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Jordanian King Abdullah II met with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid in the capital Amman on Wednesday. The meeting was the first between the Jordanian monarch and Lapid since the latter assumed his post last month. Talks between the two sides focused on the stalled peace process between Israel and the […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – If the status quo in Palestine remains and prospects for a two-state solution are not revived, the Palestinian people will face a future of “fear, harassment, intimidation, arbitrary arrest and detention, injury and death,” Ramallah’s UN envoy has warned. Peace talks aimed at brokering a negotiated set...
ANKARA (AA) – Muslim women wearing headscarf for religious reasons face more discrimination than others when applying for jobs in Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, revealed a survey conducted by researchers from the Netherlands, Germany and the UK. Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Oxford University in the UK, and the German Center for ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has pushed back efforts to intervene in Myanmar, saying Beijing adheres to a “policy of non-interference.” “China adheres to the principle of non-interference in internal affairs (of other nations),” said Zhao Lijian, spokesman for China’s Foreign Ministry, referring to Myanmar. He was replying to a question w...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The interim Afghan government on Tuesday urged the US to fulfill its commitments made in the Doha agreement, unfreeze all the assets of Afghanistan unconditionally, and lift economic sanctions. Assuring that Afghanistan’s territory will not be used against anyone, acting Afghan Foreign Minister Maulvi Amir Khan Muttaqi told an ...
JERUSALEM (AA) –An Israeli government committee has approved in principle a fresh plan to construct settlement units in the southern part of occupied East Jerusalem, an Israeli NGO said on Tuesday. The plan includes the construction of 1,446 settlement homes in the Lower Aqueduct settlement in the Palestinian town of Sur Baher, and between the...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan has condemned the Indian defense minister’s statement on Pakistan-administered (Azad) Kashmir, calling it “provocative” and “completely unacceptable.” In a statement late Sunday, the Foreign Ministry rejected Rajnath Singh’s “unwarranted and totally unacceptable comments...
