KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait – Kuwait has said that it plans to appoint an ambassador and a project coordinator in war-torn Yemen. Kuwaiti Crown Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah held talks with the head of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council, Rashad Al-Alimi. During their meeting, the crown prince underlined Kuwait’s support...
LONDON (AA) – Britain on Thursday condemned the death sentences issued to two of its citizens by a court in Russian-backed Donetsk. “I utterly condemn the sentencing of Aiden Aslin and Shaun Pinner held by Russian proxies in eastern Ukraine,” Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said in a statement. Claiming that the men whom the cour...
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 […...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US sanctioned on Monday two leaders of Bosnia and Herzegovina, alleging they have undermined regional stability and the country’s Dayton Peace Accords. Marinko Cavara, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina president, and Alen Seranic, the Republika Srpska health minister, are being added to the US blacklist...
ANKARA (AA) – Yemen’s warring sides have agreed to launch a coordination room to help pave the way for bringing the country’s seven-year war to a close. Military representatives from the Yemeni government, the Coalition Joint Forces Command and the Houthis were gathered in Jordan’s capital Amman by the Office of the Special Envoy f...
ANKARA – At least 32 journalists have been killed in Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine, the Ukrainian culture and information policy minister has said. As Ukraine marks its annual Journalists Day, Oleksandr Tkachenko hailed all journalists working in the war-ravaged country as “heroes.” “Eternal memory to our fighters of information front. All j...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – The UK reopened its embassy in Libya on Sunday after an eight-year hiatus. The UK had closed its diplomatic missions in Libya in 2014 amid intense armed clashes in the country. “This is a demonstration of the UK’s commitment to the whole of Libya. I am proud our work touches the […]
ALGERIA (AA) – The Arab Contact Group on the Ukrainian Crisis held a video conference Sunday to discuss the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war and its effects on Arab countries in terms of energy and food security. The meeting, held at the level of foreign ministers, stressed “the importance of contributing to internatio...
RIYADH (AA) – Qatar has reiterated its readiness to contribute to every international and regional effort to find a peaceful solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Its pledge came during a meeting Wednesday held by Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in the ...
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan discussed the implementation of agreements on Nagorno-Karabakh in a phone call on Wednesday. Azerbaijan and Armenia fought a 44-day war over the South Caucasian region in 2020. Putin and Pashinyan stressed the importance of stepping up joint work to ensure re...
