MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has said that at least 200 children in Somalia have died of malnutrition since January, with the country witnessing “catastrophic food insecurity” for the first time since 2017. Drought conditions have deteriorated follow...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia on Monday called on international donors to help Somali people affected by the deadly drought as the funding gap widens. Somalia’s presidential envoy to drought response, Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame, made the call on Monday afternoon after paying a visit to the drought-stricken town of Bardhere i...
Human rights advocates on Monday derided the Biden administration’s assertion that Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was “likely”—but unintentionally—killed by an Israeli soldier, with one group accusing the U.S. State Department of complicity in a “whitewash” of the reporter’s death. In a st...
BEIRUT (AA) – Lebanon’s top diplomat said Sunday that he expects his country and Israel to reach a sea demarcation agreement in September. Speaking to the LBCI television channel, Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib commented on the negotiations between Lebanon and Israel which resumed through US mediation efforts in June following a one...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on Sunday vowed to abide by the recent agreement with Türkiye, including pledges on extradition of terrorists. Speaking at the annual political festival Almedalen Week in Gotland, Andersson said she could not share specific details of the memorandum signed with Türkiye and Finla...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – An Arab NGO has documented 44 Israeli rights violations against Palestinian journalists in the occupied Palestinian territories during the month of June alone. The Journalists Support Committee has said that Israeli forces deliberately assassinated female journalist Ghufran Warasnah, 31, in the city of Hebron last m...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine on Sunday called for piling pressure on Israel to halt excavations around the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. In a statement, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry urged the US administration and the international community to intervene “to halt Israeli diggings under and around Al-...
Ohio authorities on Sunday released bodycam footage showing Akron police officers shooting Jayland Walker, a 25-year-old Black man, upwards of 60 times. As the Washington Post reported, officers “tried to stop Walker’s vehicle at about 12:30 am Monday for investigation of an unspecified traffic violation and chased him when he did ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – With seven more people dying in the last 24 hours, the death toll in Bangladesh’s floods has risen to 102, authorities said on Sunday. According to a daily flood report by the health directorate, the casualties were reported in 11 of 28 flood-affected districts between May 17 and July 3. Of […]
LAHORE, Pakistan (AA) – A delegation of British Sikh soldiers which visited Pakistan this week appreciated its efforts to preserve the two most holy sites of Sikhism. The two most revered shrines of the Sikh religion are Nankana Sahib, the place where Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion, was born, and Kartarpur, where […]
