JERUSALEM (AA) – Christians in Jerusalem have protested Israeli restrictions on the celebrations of the Holy Fire Saturday in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in East Jerusalem. The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate and the Armenian Patriarchate have also protested a decision by Israeli police to limit the number of participants in the April 16 cele...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Saudi Arabia on Wednesday vowed support to cash-strapped Lebanon amid a crippling economic crisis in the country. Saudi Ambassador Walid Bukhari met with Lebanese President Michel Aoun at the presidential palace in Beirut. Aoun was briefed by the Saudi envoy on the working mechanism of the Saudi-French joint fund “dedica...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran is open to public sector investments from regional countries in nuclear energy, a senior official told Anadolu Agency. Pejman Shirmardi, Deputy Director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said Tehran welcomes public sector companies from countries in the region to enter the field. “Iran’s cap...
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that all goals of the country’s “special military operation” in Ukraine will be achieved. Speaking ahead of the meeting with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, Putin said a clash between Russia and Ukraine was inevitable because the West was turning Ukraine into...
KARACHI, Pakistan – Former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who became the first-ever Pakistani leader to be voted out through a no-confidence motion, finished his nearly four-year stint with a mix of successes and failures. Khan came to power through a popular vote in the 2018 general elections, promising to bolster a crippling economy, fight corru...
Tehran, Iran (AFP) – Tehran on Monday questioned Washington’s will in reaching an agreement to restore the 2015 nuclear agreement, with key sticking points unresolved after talks halted last month. Iran has been engaged for a year in negotiations with France, Germany, Britain, Russia and China directly, and the United States indire...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – Thousands of supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party took to the streets in several cities across the country Sunday to protest his ouster in a no-confidence vote in parliament. According to local media, protests were staged in the capital Islamabad and many other cities,...
GENEVA – The civilian death toll in Russia-Ukraine war has climbed to 1,766 people with 2,383 others injured, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has said. In its daily update, the OHCHR said most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons, including shelling from […...
BAGHDAD – The United Nations has called for solving the crisis of the Al-Hol refugee camp in eastern Syria. “There must be a comprehensive and decisive action in the file of the Al-Hol camp, as there are 30,000 Iraqis who have ties to Daesh/ISIS and some of their victims are in Al-Hol camp and their […]
LONDON, UK (AA) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Saturday made an unannounced visit to Ukraine where he held talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. According to a government statement, Johnson pledged further military and humanitarian support to Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s “special military operationR...
