Jos, Nigeria (AFP): More than 3,000 people have been displaced in central Nigeria after at least 85 people were killed in ongoing clashes between herders and farmers, officials said Thursday. The violence erupted on Monday, with an initial death toll of 30, in several villages of Plateau State, an area which has struggled with ethnic […...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): The top diplomats of Iran and Afghanistan on Thursday discussed their long-running water dispute, according to the Afghan Foreign Ministry. During the conversation between the Taliban administration’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian discussed various ...
ISTANBUL (AA): Azerbaijan has said that Armenia used combat drones against its military positions in the East Zangezur economic region. “On May 18, at about 07:15 (0315GMT), the Armenian armed forces used combat UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) at several positions of the Azerbaijani Army deployed in the direction of the Yellija settlement of t...
TEHRAN / KARACHI (AA): Iran and Pakistan on Thursday inaugurated a border market as well as an electricity transmission line in the presence of top government officials. The Mand-Pishin Border Sustenance Marketplace is one of six border markets planned for the two neighboring countries’ shared border, as agreed in a memorandum of underst...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan/ ISTANBUL, Türkiye (AA): China’s President Xi Jinping met with his counterparts from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan on Thursday in Xi’an, China’s northwestern Shaanxi province, to discuss bilateral relations and trade, a day before the start of the first China-Central Asia Summit. The Central Asian leade...
ISTANBUL (AA): Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit has said that Syria’s readmission does not mean the resumption of relations between Damascus and league members. On May 7, the Cairo-based Arab League reinstated Syria after 12 years of suspension over the regime’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protests. “The decision to reinst...
JERUSALEM (AA): The Knesset, Israel’s parliament, has passed a new bill that prohibits raising the Palestinian flag. According to the Knesset website, the bill titled “prohibition of raising the flag of a hostile entity” was proposed by the far-right Jewish Strength (Otzma Yehudit) party headed by hardline National Security M...
KAZAN, Tatarstan (AA): Russia Halal Expo 2023 opened its doors on Thursday to visitors on the sidelines of the 14th International Economic Summit: Russia-Islamic World: Kazan Forum 2023. Expected to garner more than 7,000 visitors, the expo features products and services permissible in Islam (halal) with an aim to promote the halal industry in...
Beijing, China (AFP): China’s special envoy Li Hui told Ukraine “there is no panacea to resolve the crisis” and urged Kyiv and Moscow to engage in talks to end the war, Beijing has said. China, a strategic ally of Russia, has refrained from condemning Moscow’s invasion, and has instead sought to position itself as a [&h...
Freetown, Sierra Leone (AFP): Sierra Leone’s president expressed hopes in an interview that a newly announced African mediation effort would end Russia’s war in Ukraine “for the sake of humanity”. “We are all suffering as a result of the war in Ukraine… For the sake of humanity, for what is happening, let...