Provinces, SANA- Official and popular activities on Tuesday continued to hold stands in condemnation of US President Donald Trump’s declaration on the occupied Syrian Golan. In Damascus, thousands of profs and students from Damascus University gathered in front of UN building in Damascus in protest against Trump’s declaration on the occupied Syrian Golan. In al-Rufaid town […]
Continue reading …Istanbul, Turkey – The ruling Justice and Development (AK Party) has lost mayoral electionsin the country’s three largest cities – Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir – in a stunning election setback for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan according to unofficial results published by state-run Anadolu Agency on Monday. The official results will be released after the country’s election board looks into […]
Continue reading …Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo. PHOTO | AFP Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed Farmajo. PHOTO | AFP Somalia President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has had mixed success in the past two years, but has earned a fair score in the mid-term assessment, compared with his predecessors. Since his election on February 8, 2017, President Farmajo […]
Continue reading …Istanbul, Turkey – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development (AK) Party and the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) have both said they narrowly won Istanbul’s mayoral elections on Sunday. Speaking to reporters in Istanbul, CHP-led Nation Alliance’s candidate Ekrem Imamoglu, citing his party’s data, said he had won by nearly 28,000 votes. Minutes later, the […]
Continue reading …US President Donald Trump speaks at an event focused on infrastructure at the Edgar Hoover Dike on Lake Okeechobee in Florida [Nicholas Kamm/AFP] President Donald Trump has threatened to close the southern border of the United States or large sections of it next week if Mexico does not halt undocumented immigrants from reaching the border “immediately”. “It could mean all trade” with […]
Continue reading …Names of victims of the mosque attacks are read out at the national remembrance service, at Hagley Park in Christchurch, New Zealand March 29, 2019. (Reuters Photo) New Zealand honored the victims of the far-right terrorist attack on Christchurch mosques in a commemoration ceremony on Friday. Around 25,000 New Zealanders attended the memorial service for […]
Continue reading …A Somali boy walks near blood-stains and debris on the ground after an explosion outside a restaurant in Mogadishu that left at least 15 people dead At least 15 people died when a bomb exploded on a busy street and ripped into a nearby restaurant in Somalia’s capital on Thursday, medics said. Security officials and […]
Continue reading …Police buses await migrants who arrived on merchant ship Elhiblu 1, in Valletta’s Grand Harbour, Malta, on March 28, 2019. (Reuters) A Maltese special operations team on Thursday boarded a tanker that had been hijacked by migrantsrescued at sea, and returned control to the captain, before escorting it to a Maltese port. Armed military personnel stood […]
Continue reading …The winglet of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max 8 is seen as it sits grounded at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Saturday, March 23, 2019. (AP Photo) Boeing said on Wednesday it had reprogrammed software on its 737 MAX to prevent erroneous data from triggering an anti-stall system that is facing mounting […]
Continue reading …Syria denounced the American move as a ‘flagrant violation’ of UN resolutions [Sergei Grits/AP] The United States came under sharp criticism from 14 other United Nations Security Council nations for its decision to recognise Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights in violation of international law. The Security Council met on Wednesday at the request of Syria, which in a letter to the […]
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