BARGUNA, Bangladesh (AA) – At least 22 people were reportedly killed across Bangladesh after Cyclone Sitrang struck the country on Monday night, forcing around 10 million people to shift to safer areas, while tens of thousands remain marooned awaiting government help, officials said. Five people were killed in separate cyclone-related incident...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – A delegation from Lebanon will visit Syria on Wednesday for talks on demarcating their maritime border. A statement by the Lebanese Presidency said the delegation, led by Parliament Deputy Speaker Elias Bou Saab, will hold talks with senior Syrian officials on delineating maritime border between the two countries. A disp...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces killed at least five Palestinians during raids in the occupied West Bank on Monday. Four Palestinians were killed in the city of Nablus and another in Nabi Salih, near Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The ministry said 22 others were wounded. According to a report by Palest...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanon’s parliament on Monday failed for the fourth time to elect a successor to incumbent President Michel Aoun. Aoun’s six-year term is set to end on Oct. 31. Candidate Michel Mouawad, backed by the Lebanese Forces Party, got only 39 votes in Monday’s session, which was attended by 110 members of […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian NGO has documented over 5,300 arrests by the Israeli army in the occupied West Bank this year. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoner Society said around 4,700 Palestinians are still in Israeli custody, including 30 women and 190 minors. “The suffering of captives is escalating amid rising numbers of ...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – More than 40,000 African migrants have arrived in war-torn Yemen since the start of this year, according to the International Organization for Migration (IOM). “More than 40,000 migrants have landed on Yemen’s shores so far in 2022 according to displacement tracking matrix (DTM) estimates,” the IOM said in a statement. The ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A fresh spell of heavy shelling from Myanmar along the hilly Bandarban border district of Bangladesh has created panic among people, forcing hundreds of families to flee for safety. Bullets from Myanmar again landed inside Bangladesh’s Lemuchhari and Bahirmath areas on Saturday, claimed locals as they fled the area. Ov...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian group on Sunday confirmed the death of a group member in the West Bank city of Nablus. The Lions’ Den said Tamer al-Kilani was killed in a bomb explosion early Sunday, blaming Israel for his death. There was no comment from the Israeli authorities on the report. Israel blames […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s nuclear energy agency said Sunday an email server of one of its subsidiaries was hacked from a foreign country amid ongoing protests over the death of a young woman in police custody. In a statement, the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) confirmed the intrusion into an email server of […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Thousands of Palestinians on Sunday bid farewell to two men killed by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank. Mourners participated in the funeral procession for Rabi Arafah Rabi, 32, in the city of Qalqilya, according to an Anadolu Agency reporter at the scene. Rabi died Saturday from wounds he sustained […]...
