TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian naval guard units have recovered 15 bodies of irregular migrants on the coast of Mahdia, in the east of the country. The Naval Guard in the Mahdia region stated that “15 bodies were recovered between Wednesday and Thursday on the coasts of Chebba, Salakta and Mahdia,” according to the official […]...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A teenaged Palestinian detainee on Friday succumbed to his wounds in an Israeli hospital. In a statement, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)-run Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs said Mohammad Ghawadra, 17, from the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, underwent an opera...
JENIN, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian was killed and six others were injured by the Israeli army on Friday in the West Bank city of Jenin. “The result of the Israeli aggression against the city of Jenin is one martyr and six injuries, including one in a very critical condition (a bullet to the head),” […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A callous act of putting multiple unclaimed bodies on the rooftop of a hospital in Pakistan’s southern Multan city prompted the government on Friday to launch an investigation into the desecration of human remains and failure to bury them in line with religious rights. Pervaiz Elahi, the chief minister of central-eastern...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunis residents are facing a disruption in fuel deliveries that has sparked long queues at petrol stations, the latest economic hardship as Tunisia faces a massive crunch in its public finances. Authorities insist that fuel deliveries are adequate and have blamed motorists in the capital for sparking shortages by flocking...
Doha, Qatar (AFP): Hazem Attar was 10 when he fled the stricken Syrian city of Aleppo seven years ago. Seven members of his family packed into a bus to escape the city that had endured more than three years of bombs and bullets from government forces under Bashar Al Assad. They were put in a […]
ANKARA (AA) – The European Union’s anti-fraud office has issued a damning report that has brought to light the EU border agency’s cover-up of illegal pushbacks of migrants by the Greek Coast Guard into Turkish territorial waters. The report has not yet been made public officially by the EU. However, it has been highlighted by...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany’s largest mosque in Cologne broadcast the Muslim call to prayer over its loudspeakers for the first time on Friday. “This a sign that Muslims are at home here,” Abdurrahman Atasoy, the secretary general of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) told reporters, and thanked the city admini...
BEIRUT (AA) – French Foreign Affairs Minister Catherine Colonna on Friday said TotalEnergies will start the drilling and exploration activities in the Lebanese field after the finalization of the maritime border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel. The French top diplomat made the statement during her talks with Lebanese President Mic...
BRUSSELS (AA) – A 20-month-old refugee baby has become the latest victim of the racism and mismanagement by Belgian authorities in processing applications for asylum seekers. The baby, who was accompanied by her mother, spent the night on the streets as they waited outside the Belgian Federal Asylum Seeker Reception Agency (Fedasil) to s...