GENEVA – The World Health Organization chief has said that it is clear that the world was — and remains — unprepared for a pandemic, calling for support for universal health care and other reform measures. WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus delivered his vision for the next five years for the WHO at the 75th World [&hell...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has announced that his party’s march to Islamabad to press for new elections would begin on May 25. Addressing a news conference in the northwestern city of Peshawar, Khan said his supporters will remain in the capital until new elections are called. Khan, w...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – An officer from Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was shot dead by unknown assailants in Tehran on Sunday, the IRGC’s public relations division said. Colonel Sayyad Khodayari was attacked by two motorcycle-borne assailants in his car outside his home in eastern Tehran, close to the Iranian parliame...
ISTANBUL (AA) – US President Joe Biden on Sunday said “everybody should be concerned” about monkeypox. “They (health advisers) haven’t told me the level of exposure yet, but it is something that everybody should be concerned about. “We’re working on it hard to figure out what we do and what vaccine, if any, may be [&hel...
NAIROBI, Kenya – (AA): Leading media outlets, mainly in North America and Europe, are using images of African negroid people alongside stories of the monkeypox outbreak, which has offended many Africans. The Foreign Press Association, Africa (FPAA), a Pan African non-profit membership organization of journalists covering Africa for the i...
BERLIN – Qatar will play a “central role” in Germany’s new energy strategy, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said. Speaking at a joint news conference in Berlin with Qatar’s emir, Scholz said the two countries will enhance their economic ties and energy cooperation. “Germany will further develop its energy infrastructure so that we will be abl...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian President Kais Saied has issued a presidential decree to form an advisory committee to draft a new constitution, excluding political parties from the process. The decree named Sadik Belaid, a law professor, to chair the advisory committee. Belaid will be entrusted with coordinating between two other advisory pane...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Saudi Arabia on Saturday called for international pressure on Houthi rebels to join efforts for establishment of peace in war-torn Yemen. In a Twitter post, Saudi Deputy Defense Minister Khalid bin Salman said he met with US special envoy Timothy Lenderking in Washington “to discuss the latest developments in Yemen.” “Altho...
New Delhi, India (AFP): Thirty years after mobs demolished the historic Babri mosque in Ayodhya, India, triggering a wave of sectarian bloodshed that saw thousands killed, fundamentalist Indian Hindu groups are eyeing other Muslim sites — even the world-famous Taj Mahal. Emboldened under Hindu nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi, ai...
BRUSSELS – The European Commission has announced an additional €22 million ($23.3 million) in humanitarian aid for the Rohingya community. The aid will provide shelter, food and health assistance for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh and their host communities, as well as displaced Rohingya and other conflict-affected people in Myanmar, the EU’s...
