ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AA) – Despite Russia being its largest member, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) military alliance will not be a party to the ongoing war in Ukraine, Kazakhstan said Monday. Kazakhstan favors territorial integrity, sovereign equality, and peaceful coexistence of states within the framework of international ...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel’s top negotiator for maritime border demarcation with Lebanon, Udi Adiri, has resigned from his post amid progress in US-mediated efforts to reach a possible deal with Beirut. The resignation came as US mediator Amos Hochstein presented his final proposal to settle a maritime border dispute between Tel Aviv and Beirut. Acc...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UN mission in Afghanistan has said the number of deaths from Friday’s suicide bombing in Kabul has climbed to 43. “Human toll from Friday’s college bombing in Hazara neighborhood of Afghan capital continues to rise,” United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said in a brief statement. It added that 43 [&helli...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A Pakistani court has dismissed the contempt of court case against former Prime Minister Imran Khan. A five-member bench of the Islamabad High Court, headed by Chief Justice Athar Minallah, accepted Khan’s affidavit and dismissed the show-cause notice. The chief justice also praised Khan for going to the court of Additional Di...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Yemeni government has accused the Iran-backed Houthi group of dealing with the truce as an “opportunity to blackmail and put Iran’s interests ahead of the interests of the Yemeni people.” “The Houthis treated the truce as an opportunity for blackmail, and putting Iran’s interests ahea...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Two Palestinians were shot dead and a third wounded by Israeli forces near the city of Ramallah in central occupied West Bank, authorities said on Monday. Israeli soldiers “shot more than 30 bullets” at a car during an early morning raid near the Jalazone refugee camp, according to the Palestinian official […]...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran confirmed Monday it is exchanging messages with the United States through the European Union and some regional countries to narrow the gaps in reaching a nuclear agreement. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani said in a weekly news conference in Tehran that the exchange of messages was underway through EU coordina...
Paris, France (AFP): Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Monday accused arch-foes the United States and Israel of fomenting the wave of nationwide unrest sparked by outrage over the death of Mahsa Amini. “I say clearly that these riots and the insecurity were engineered by America and the occupying, false Zionist regime...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – The death toll in the protests in Iran over the death of a 22-year-old woman in police custody has surged to 92, according to a Norway-based human rights group. In a statement, Iran Human Rights (IHR), a non-profit NGO founded by Iranian expats, said 41 protesters were killed in the southeastern […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Kuwait’s Crown Prince Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah has accepted the resignation of the government. Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Sabah submitted his government’s resignation and the crown prince accepted it on Sunday and asked the government to stay on in a caretaker capacity, the state news agency KUNA re...
