Sanaa, Yemen – AFP US and British forces struck parts of Yemen early on Friday and Houthis warned the two countries “will have to prepare to pay a heavy price”. In recent weeks, the Houthis, acting in solidarity with people of Gaza, have carried out a growing number of attacks on what they deem to […]
GENEVA (AA) – Weaponizing the term “genocide” against Israel “averts” the aims of the UN Genocide Convention, Israel contended Friday. During its oral arguments at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) at the Hague, it claimed that it is only trying to protect its own people. “The key component of genocide, the inten...
JENIN, Palestine (AA) – Another Palestinian was killed by Israeli army fire near the West Bank city of Jenin on Thursday, the official news agency Wafa reported. No details were provided about the circumstances leading to his death. Eyewitnesses earlier said that Israeli forces raided the town of Jaba’ near Jenin and besieged a house […...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army on Thursday detained 28 more Palestinians in military raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to prisoners’ affairs groups. “The arrests were marked by abuse, severe beatings, and threats against detainees and their families, in addition to widespread acts of sabotage and destructi...
Beijing,- AFP China’s top diplomat Wang Yi will this week visit Egypt and Tunisia, Beijing has said, as part of a four-country Africa tour before he heads to Brazil and Jamaica. Wang’s first trip of the new year comes as China increasingly focuses on ties in the Global South, seeking to bolster its influence in […]
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan has said that no promise was made to grant visas and residence permits to Afghan migrants. Fidan’s comments came in response to a parliamentary question by Deniz Demir, Ankara deputy of Türkiye’s main opposition, the Republican People’s Party (CHP). The question concerned allegatio...
LONDON (AA) – A bill seeking to ban public bodies boycotting Israel has been passed in the UK’s House of Commons, despite protests by Palestine supporters outside Parliament. The Anti-Boycott Bill was passed by 282 to 235, with 279 Conservative Party MPs, two independent MPs and 1 member of Northern Ireland’s Democratic Union...
THE HAGUE (AA) – Irish members of the European Parliament joined a rally in front of the International Court of Justice at The Hague in support of Gaza, stating that this is a trial on international law as much as Israel. Member of the European Parliament Claire Daly said that she was there representing the […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Thousands of residents in Mogadishu took to the streets on Thursday in order to protest Ethiopia’s Red Sea access and naval base deal with Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland. The deal has sparked outrage among Somalis in and outside of the Horn of Africa nation. Protesters included students from secondary ...
BEIRUT (AA) – Two medics were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Thursday. Israeli fighter jets struck an ambulance service center in the town of Hanine, leaving two medics dead, the Islamic Health Society (Hayaa) said in a statement. An ambulance was destroyed in the attack. Tensions have escalated along Lebanon’s border [&...