RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Health Ministry on Wednesday said the Israeli forces shot dead Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh when she was covering an Israeli raid in the northern Jenin city of the occupied West Bank. Another journalist, Ali Al-Samoudi, was shot in the back, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry....
ISTANBUL (AA) – A group of scholars from Turkey and Pakistan deliberated on regional security issues Tuesday in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul. In what is described as the first Turkey-Pakistan security dialogue, Professor Rabia Akhtar from the University of Lahore said the participants discussed how the regional security architecture shap...
JERUSALEM (AA) – At least 22 Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces on Tuesday during a home demolition in occupied East Jerusalem, according to medics. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics treated 16 Palestinians in Silwan neighborhood in the city this evening following clashes with Israeli soldiers. Six other Palestinian...
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories- A year after its devastating war with Israel, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas is faced with a dilemma: to keep up the resistance struggle or to lay low and reconstruct the Gaza Strip? On May 10, 2021, the storming of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound by Israeli forces led to violent clashes […]
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir – Sana Irshad Mattoo, 28, a Kashmiri woman photographer, has been awarded this year’s Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for her coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Besides Mattoo, who contributes to Reuters as a multimedia journalist, three Reuters photojournalists- Adnan Abidi, Amit Dave and late Danish Si...
BRUSSELS – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell pledged an extra €1 billion ($1.06 billion) support for the Syrian people for this year at the Brussels Syria Conference. “I am pleased to announce an additional €1 billion aid for the calendar year of 2022,” Borrell said at his opening speech at the 6th Brussels conference […]...
ISTANBUL – Palestinian weightlifter Hamada Mohammed has won a gold medal at the IWF Junior World Championships. Mohammed won the top prize in the men’s 102 kg snatch category after lifting 168 kilograms. Having lifted 193 kg in the cIean and jerk, the 20-year-old took home the bronze overall with 361 total points. Uzbek athlete [&h...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) – About a dozen women protested in the Afghan capital on Tuesday against the Taliban’s new edict that females must fully cover their faces and bodies when in public. Afghanistan’s supreme leader and Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada issued a mandate over the weekend ordering women to cover up fully,...
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – The European Union’s coordinator for talks between Iran and world powers over restoring a 2015 nuclear deal will visit Tehran this week, Iran’s foreign ministry has said. “The agenda for talks (with Enrique Mora) in Tehran is nearly finalised. “He will meet with Ali Bagheri, the Islamic Republ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli soldiers injured at least eight Palestinians during raids early Tuesday in the northern city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Jewish settlers, who headed by bus to Joseph’s tomb in Nablus under the protection of the Israeli army, attacked Palestinians in the area, according to information rece...
