Tehran, Iran – (AFP): Iran and Venezuela signed a 20-year deal on cooperation between the two allies subject to US sanctions during a visit Saturday to the Islamic republic by Venezuela’s President Nicholas Maduro. The inking of the agreement “shows the determination of the high-level officials of the two countries for develo...
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates – (AFP): Israel’s Prime Minister Naftali Bennett landed in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday for talks with President Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, following a free trade deal signed last month. Bennett’s second visit to UAE since the countries normalised relations in a US-brokered 20...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has accused Israel of seeking to turn the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem into a Jewish synagogue. Addressing a Palestinian event on the historical status of Al-Aqsa Mosque in the West Bank city of Al-Bireh, Shtayyeh said 55 years of Israeli excavations ...
WASHINGTON – China and Russia have sought to explain their vetoes on a new Security Council resolution that would have tightened sanctions on North Korea for its repeated ballistic missile tests. China blamed the US for simmering tensions on the Korean Peninsula in the first such instance of a permanent Council member explaining their de...
JERUSALEM – Israeli forces have again demolished a Palestinian Bedouin village in the southern Negev region in the occupied West Bank. Aziz al-Touri, a member of the Committee for the Defense of al-Araqib informed that Israeli forces stormed the village and brought it to the ground for the 202nd time. Al-Touri confirmed that villagers intend [...
GENEVA – Unless the world immediately shifts its total focus away from the war in Ukraine, there will be an explosion of child deaths in the Horn of Africa, a UN official has warned, urging the international community to act immediately. Rania Dagash, UNICEF’s deputy regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa, spoke at a […...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has warned that anger has built across the occupied territories over Israeli escalation coupled with international silence over the violations. “Palestine deserves to be a recognized state by the international community, and the Palestinian people deserve to live in...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Amnesty International has called on Israel to immediately release a human right defender held under Tel Aviv’s administrative detention policy for another three months. “The Israeli authorities must immediately release Salah Hammouri,” Heba Morayef, Amnesty’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a st...
LONDON (AA) – Seven in 10 British Muslims have experienced some form of Islamophobia in the workplace, according to a new poll released on Tuesday. The survey showed some 69% of Muslims currently employed in the UK faced some sort of Islamophobic behavior during work-related engagements. These included interactions with customers, client...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory and discrimination against Palestinians are the root causes of the recurrent tensions, instability, and protracted conflict in the region, a new UN report said Tuesday. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, includi...
