RAMALLAH, PALESTINE (AA): Thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank flocked to an Israeli crossing leading to the city of Jerusalem, to observe Laylat al-Qadr at Al-Aqsa Mosque on Wednesday despite the tension in the city and the Israeli restrictions on their entry. Since early morning, traffic at the Qalandia security checkpoint — lo...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Lawmakers in Somalia’s lower house of parliament chose Sheikh Adan Mohamed Nur as its new speaker early Thursday after a much anticipated election held inside the heavily protected Aden Adde International Airport in the capital Mogadishu. Over 250 parliamentarians took part in the election following severa...
ANKARA (AA) – Hostility towards the Muslim holy book, the Quran, is a sign of ignorance, Turkey’s president said Wednesday. Speaking at the final program of Turkish broadcaster TRT’s Quran Recitation Competition in Istanbul, Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that “some European countries are trying to gain political profits by being hostile to Islam a...
JOHANNESBURG – Israel’s growing influence in Africa — including that of obtaining observer status at the African Union, the largest political organization in the continent — has enraged many pro-Palestinian campaigners. Last month, activists from across Africa met in Senegal’s capital Dakar to mobilize support for the Palesti...
MICHEWENI, Tanzania – Despite reaping good profits, spice and herbs farmers on Tanzania’s Pemba Island have experienced food insecurity after they had made a decision to stop growing conventional food crops in favor of high-valued spices. Amid rising costs of living triggered by spiraling food prices, hundreds of spice farmers on the tin...
MOSCOW – Russia has destroyed large shipments of the Western weapons in Ukraine’s Zaporozhizhia region, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed. “High-precision long-range sea-based Kalibr missiles destroyed hangars with a large batch of foreign weapons and ammunition, supplied by the US and European countries for Ukrainian troops on the territor...
TEHRAN, Iran – Iran has descibed its fifth round of tension-easing talks with Saudi Arabia as “positive” and “progressive”. The latest round of peace parleys, hosted by the Iraqi government, saw the participation of senior officials from Iran’s top security body and Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service, according to offi...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – A growing rift between Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed and Prime Minister Mohamed Hussein Roble is sending the wrong signals to citizens and the donor community. Mohamed, widely known as Farmajo, and Roble publicly disagreed Wednesday over which security team should oversee the security of the election proc...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Algeria threatened Wednesday to cut off gas supplies to Spain if any of the gas winds up in a location other than specified by the contract. Spain’s Energy Ministry earlier confirmed that it planned to ship gas to Morocco but noted that none of that gas would be of Algerian origin. […]
NEW DELHI – At least 11 people were killed in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu when a vehicle decorated as a chariot came in contact with a power wire during a religious procession. When the chariot, driven by Hindu religious devotees, touched an overhead transmission line in the Thanjavur district, 11 people were […]
