RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres discussed the Palestine cause and Israeli escalation in occupied territories. During the meeting held on the sidelines of 78th UN General Assembly session in New York, the Palestinian leader “reiterated the need fo...
ANKARA (AA) – The summer of 2023 was the hottest ever recorded, the UN’s weather agency said on Wednesday. “It was the hottest August on record – by a large margin – and the second hottest ever month after July 2023,” according to the UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and EU’s Copernicus Climate Change ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel is close to carrying out a military campaign against Lebanon, the country’s permanent delegate to the United Nations has warned. Israel is “the nearest to launching military action in Lebanon since the 2006 [war],” Gilad Erdan told Army Radio, citing what he called Hezbollah escalation along the border. The ...
