WASHINGTON (AA) – US officials raised allegations by Canada that link India to the killing of a Canadian Sikh activist during a meeting with New Delhi’s foreign minister in Washington, the Indian top diplomat said Friday. “They obviously shared US views and assessment on this whole situation,” External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaish...
-ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan is in “constant” touch with the US administration seeking a tacit green light to the long-stalled Pakistan-Iran gas pipeline project. However “there are remote chances of a favorable response” from Washington, a Foreign Ministry official said. “In the given geopolitical s...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US applauded engagement efforts Tuesday between Saudi Arabia and Palestine hours after Riyadh’s first ambassador arrived in Palestine. “We commend increased engagement between Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority. We see that as a helpful step,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said at a n...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US on Tuesday “strongly” condemned a drone attack by the Houthi rebel group that killed two Bahraini service members and injured many others along the border between Yemen and Saudi Arabia. “This unprovoked attack threatens the longest period of calm since the war in Yemen began,” State Depar...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – A US prisoner of Iranian origin has died in Iran, Iranian authorities have confirmed. Faramarz Javidzad, 60, died at a hospital on Saturday due to health complications, Iran’s Prisons and Security and Corrective Measures Organization (PSCMO) said in a statement. It, however, rejected reports that the prisoner had died of me...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – The US has reiterated its call for Sudan’s warring rivals to end their “brutal conflict” and allow Sudanese people to live in peace. “The warring parties must end this brutal conflict,”c, assistant State Secretary, told Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan during a meeting on the sideli...
JERUSALEM (AA) – In a meeting with US President Joe Biden in New York, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about the possibility of reaching a peace deal with Saudi Arabia. “I think that under your leadership, Mr. President, we can forge a historic peace between Israel and Saudi Arabia. And I think such a […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The “world is changing” amid the emergence of a new international order and the “path is irreversible”, said Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi in his speech at the UN General Assembly on Tuesday. Raisi, who arrived in New York on Monday, used the platform of the annual premier conference of world leaders […]...
WASHINGTON (AA) – When Mohamed Khairullah was abruptly turned away from a White House Eid al-Fitr celebration four months ago, he demanded answers. Khairullah, the longtime mayor of Prospect Park, New Jersey, had been invited to the event, and was on his way to the US capital when he received a call telling him that […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Five US citizens who had been imprisoned in Iran returned to the US on Tuesday after being released under a prisoner swap agreement by the Biden administration with Tehran. A plane carrying these five prisoners, along with two of their family members, touched down at a military facility in Virginia, located just […...
