JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel has started to test the pumping of gas from the disputed Karish gas field amid tension with Lebanon, according to local media. Israeli Channel 12 reported that Israel’s security establishment has given the US gas drilling company Energean the green light to start its tests. Public broadcaster KAN said full pumping [&hel...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least nine people of a family were killed after the roof of their dilapidated house collapsed in northern Pakistan on Sunday, police and local media reported. The incident occurred on the outskirts of the remote Chilas district, located some 376 kilometers (233 miles) from the capital Islamabad. The deceased were [&...
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AA) – Kyrgyzstan canceled the military drill of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), the country’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday. Kyrgyzstan decided to call off the “Indestructible Brotherhood-2022” military drill of the CSTO military alliance that was scheduled to be held on its territory from...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Two Bangladeshi citizens were shot dead Sunday allegedly by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in two separate incidents along the border, officials said. The men were shot dead in the southwestern Satkhira and western Chuadanga border districts of Bangladesh when they were allegedly trying to cross the border ille...
ANKARA (AA) – The United Nations has said at least 100 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in the occupied West Bank this year. “I am alarmed by the deteriorating security situation, including the rise in armed clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem,” Special...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The European Union will contribute €6.2 million ($6 million) through the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) for persecuted Rohingya refugees and their host communities on the southeast coast of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh. The UNHCR in a statement Monday welcomed the EU’s contribution, saying it will support the monitoring ...
NEW YORK (AA) – The New York Police Department’s Muslim Officers Society sent their first shipment of relief goods to flood-hit Pakistan on Sunday. The clothes and cleaning materials collected by the members of the society for people affected by the floods that hit Pakistan in August were dispatched to the country from John F. […]...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution to express solidarity with Pakistan’s government and people in the wake of recent devastating floods that inundated a third of the country last month, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. The “consensus” resolution also backed Islamabad’s &#...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia has reopened a number of Turkish schools closed by the kingdom last year, according to a Turkish diplomat. “A number of schools run by the Turkish Education Ministry began to operate,” Huseyin Eren Yildiz from the Turkish Consulate in Jeddah city told Anadolu Agency. He said Turkish primary schools in […]...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – Pakistan is on the verge of a public health disaster after the devastating floods, the UN secretary-general warned on Friday, as the world body now seeks $816 million, a surge of $656 million from the initial amount appealed for. The devastation caused by unprecedented rains and floods in Pakistan has claimed [&hell...
