WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump won the state of Arizona in the presidential election on Saturday against Democratic rival Kamala Harris, flipping a final swing state that Democrats had claimed in 2020, according to The Associated Press. With Arizona’s 11 electoral votes, Trump, a Republican, has secured 312 electoral vote...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Kuwait’s Red Crescent Society has sent its third relief plane carrying 40 tons of humanitarian aid to Lebanon. In a statement to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), the chairman of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society, Khaled Al-Maghames, said: “The situation in Lebanon faces significant challenges that require increased support an...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas has demanded that the next week’s joint Arab-Islamic follow-up summit take responsibility for the occupied city of Jerusalem, which is undergoing a “systematic Israeli Judaization campaign.” “It is time for the Islamic nations to fulfill their religious and political du...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The WHO chief has warned about the escalating crisis in northern Gaza, noting that a famine is imminent there. “Deeply alarming,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X, referring to new findings from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC). The data, he noted, indicates that “ther...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has categorically dismissed allegations of involvement in a plot to assassinate former and current US officials, including President-elect Donald Trump, calling the claims “completely unfounded.” In a statement, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei rejected accusations made by the US D...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 17 more Palestinians were killed and several others injured when Israeli airstrikes targeted a school and a tent sheltering displaced people in Gaza City and Khan Younis. Medical sources at the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis reported that they received the bodies of nine people killed in an Israeli attack […...
ISLAMABAD / ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 26 people were killed and many others injured in a bomb explosion at Quetta city railway station in Pakistan’s Balochistan province early Saturday, police said. So far 26 people have died and 46 others are injured, Muhammad Akram, a local police official, told Anadolu over phone. Earlier, a [&he...
ISTANBUL (AA) – In the lead-up to the election day, social media was awash with claims of voter fraud, fueling doubts about the election’s integrity, according to CBS News. Posts on platforms like X highlighted minor technical issues, power outages, and spelling errors on ballots as supposed signs of a conspiracy. Former President Donald...
CAIRO (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Emirati counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed increasing efforts to establish a cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon in a phone call on Saturday. Al Nahyan and Blinken exchanged views on the recent developments in the Middle East, particularly the humanitarian situation in Gaz...
LONDON (AA) – Finland’s Non-Discrimination Ombudsman has said that the country’s refugee quota plan is discriminatory on religious grounds. The assessment came after the government announced that it will reduce the number of refugees accepted from Muslim-majority countries while increasing the number from Christian countries. According t...
