KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudanese authorities on Saturday reported the death of 14 workers in the collapse of a gold mine north of the country. The state news agency SUNA, citing a security official, said the bodies of four workers were recovered on Saturday from the collapsed mine in Wadi Halfa near Sudan’s border with […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Baku said on Friday that the preliminary results of an investigation into a recent attack on an Azerbaijani diplomat point to Iranian involvement. Responding to Iranian allegations of Azerbaijani cooperation with Israel against Tehran, Foreign Ministry spokesman Aykhan Hajizade said it was Iran that was cooperating with oth...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the suburbs of the Syrian capital Damascus early on Friday. The slain officer was identified as Milad Heydari, an IRGC “military adviser” who the IRGC public relations division said was killed in a ̶...
Brussels, Belgium (AFP): NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Friday that Finland would formally become a member within days, as he congratulated its president on clearing the final obstacle to joining. “I look forward to raising Finland’s flag at NATO HQ in the coming days. Together we are stronger and safer,” Stoltenberg wrote ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A Pakistani court on Thursday declared a colonial-era sedition law unconstitutional, calling it “inconsistent” with the country’s constitution, a lawyer and local media said. A single-judge bench of the Lahore High Court invalidated the controversial law – Section 124-A of the Pakistan Penal Code – wh...
BIRMINGHAM, UK (AA) – A 73-year-old pensioner was attacked by three men as he was walking home from a mosque in Birmingham’s Kings Heath neighborhood on Wednesday night. The victim was taken to hospital with a broken hand and cuts to his face. In the videos circulated on social media, blood is seen streaming down […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – At least four policemen, including a senior officer, were killed in a terrorist attack in Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, the country’s interior minister confirmed on Thursday. “Deputy Superintendent of Police Iqbal Mohmand along with three other police personnel have been martyred,” said...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Wednesday criticized a US call for Tel Aviv to drop controversial judicial overhaul plans, saying Israel “is not another star on the US flag.” On Tuesday, US President Joe Biden said he will not meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House [&...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel on Wednesday hailed Azerbaijan’s decision to open its embassy in Tel Aviv, after 30 years of diplomatic relations between the two sides. Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with his Azerbaijani counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov in West Jerusalem before the opening ceremony on Wednesday. “I am pleased to host the Fore...
BERLIN (AA) – The German state of Berlin will allow Muslim teachers to wear headscarves, authorities confirmed on Wednesday. Headscarves and wearing of religious symbols by teachers will be allowed in general and can only be restricted in individual cases if it poses a danger to school peace, Berlin’s education department said, in an off...
