BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnian Serbs held celebrations Monday to mark the anniversary of the founding of the entity Republika Srpska (RS) in defiance of a ruling by Bosnia’s top court. The commemorations, which were supported by senior members of the Republika Srpska government and Serbia, kicked off with a parade in East Sarajevo. Amon...
GENEVA (AA) – The cost of rebuilding Pakistan after last year’s devastating floods will exceed $16 billion “and far more will be needed in the longer term,” the UN chief said on Monday. “Pakistan is doubly victimized by climate chaos and a morally bankrupt global financial system,” Antonio Guterres said at the International Conference on [&hel...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir instructed police Sunday to ban Palestinian flags from public spaces. “It cannot be that lawbreakers wave terrorist flags, incite and encourage terrorism, so I ordered the removal of flags supporting terrorism from the public space and to stop the incitement against Isra...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – NATO peacekeepers, known as the Kosovo Force, or KFOR, have refused Serbia’s request to deploy its security forces to Kosovo, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday. Vucic in December requested that up to 1,000 police and military personnel return to Kosovo in line with UN Security Council Resolution 1244...
DOUALA, Cameroon ( AA) – Col. Assimi Goita, Mali’s transitional president, has pardoned 49 Ivorian soldiers convicted of conspiracy and undermining state security, a government spokesman said late Friday. Three who were women were later released, while 46 soldiers were sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on Dec. 30. The three releas...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel’s Defense Ministry said Thursday that the country would build a 4.6 km long wall around Jewish settlements along the Gaza border. In a statement, the ministry said that work on the project, aiming to protect the settlements from anti-tank missiles launched from Gaza, had already started. In recent years, Jewish settleme...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager during a raid on the Balata refugee camp in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday. Amer Abu Zaytoun, 16, died of “a serious injury to the head,” the official Palestine TV reported. The teenage boy is the fourth Palestinian killed by the […]
DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Qatar has called on the international community to take “firm” action against Israeli provocations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. In a statement, the Qatari Cabinet renewed Doha’s call on the international community “to take urgent and firm action to compel Israel to stop its violations and provoc...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Two Palestinians were injured during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, according to eyewitnesses. Israeli forces raided the town of Qabatiya, near Jenin, to arrest two Palestinians, the witnesses said. One Palestinian was injured by Israeli fire, while another was run over by a military...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestine has condemned a visit by Israel’s National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir to the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem as “unprecedented provocation.” “Ben-Gvir’s intrusion represents unprecedented provocation, a serious threat to the arena of conflict and a contempt to calls to stop” t...
