KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Two Pakistan Army soldiers and seven militants were killed in separate clashes in the country’s northwest province on Tuesday. A group of militants fired on a military convoy in the Hassan Khel area of the Lakki Marwat district in northwestern Kyber Pakhtunkhwa, prompting an immediate response by the troops...
KUALA LUMPUR (AA) – Turkish Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop discussed bilateral relations with his Malaysian counterparts in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. Sentop met Azhar Azizan Harun and Rais Yatim, heads of the lower and upper chambers of Malaysia’s parliament, and praised bilateral relations between Türkiye and Malaysia. Sentop said tha...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Just a week after a Japanese political affairs consul was declared persona non grata by Russia, Tokyo has asked a Russian diplomat to leave the country. The move comes in response to Moscow’s decision last week to declare a Japanese diplomat persona non grata after being “caught red-handed receiving classified information about...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Hundreds of Israeli settlers forced their way into the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday. In a statement, the Jordan-run Islamic Waqf Department, which oversees holy sites in Jerusalem, said 468 settlers entered the site through the compound’s Al-Mugharbah Gate under police protection. The...
Riyadh , Saudi Arabia (AFP): Saudi Arabia has been chosen to host the 2029 Asian Winter Games at a $500 billion futuristic megacity in the desert that planners say will feature a year-round winter sports complex. “The deserts and mountains of Saudi Arabia will soon be a playground for winter sports,” the Olympic Council of [&hellip...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran and the United States have reached a prisoner exchange agreement that includes the unfreezing of Iranian funds abroad, Iranian media reported on Tuesday. Four prisoners in Iran will be released in exchange for four people held by Washington, Nour News reported. The news agency affiliated with Iran’s top security ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The UN and Pakistan on Tuesday issued a revised flash appeal for $816 million to cope with the devastation caused by unprecedented rains and floods in the South Asian country. The revised assistance plan, five times higher than the original $160 million appeal, was launched at a ceremony in Geneva to […]
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Police are investigating the murder of Jammu and Kashmir’s director general of prisons, who was found dead at his friend’s home overnight after his domestic help went missing. Hemant Kumar Lohia was found dead inside his friend’s house where he had been staying for some days. Additional Director G...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye called Tuesday on Yemen’s warring parties to “show effort to reintroduce the truce” after an Oct. 2 deadline for extending it expired. “We regret that the efforts to extend the truce declared in Yemen on April 2 were inconclusive this time,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “We call […]...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Protesters set fire to a government building on Monday in Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq, according to security sources. A group of masked men took to the streets of the city center of Nasiriyah to stage demonstrations, the sources said. The demonstrators then set fire to the governor’s office with Molotov cocktails, they [&hel...
