Algeria opposed an Arab League’s resolution condemning Israel’s offence on Jerusalem because it praised the Moroccan king’s role in preserving the holy city, said the Moroccan state-owned news agency Maghreb Arab Press on Sunday. On Saturday, the Pales…
Climate change ‘eating away’ Iraqi monuments, experts warn
Iraq’s ancient heritage is being “eaten away” by increasing concentrations of salt and sandstorms that are becoming more problematic due to climate change, experts warned in an investigation by The Guardian on Friday. Unique components of humanity’s cu…
Serbia accuses Ukraine, EU country of Air Serbia bomb hoaxes
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic accused Ukraine and an unidentified EU country of being behind a series of hoax bomb threats against Air Serbia planes. Since Russia launched its brutal invasion of Ukraine in late February, more than a dozen Air Serb…
Putin, Abbas talk Ukraine war, Al-Aqsa raids, food security
Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Palestinian counterpart Mahmoud Abbas on Monday to discuss Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and Israeli raids on the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, according to Palestinian state media. Putin said he reject…
Egypt on ‘high alert’ after online petition against Sisi
Egyptian authorities have launched “a state of high cyber security alert” after an anti-regime group of expatriates established an online petition against President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, as well as the Egyptian parliament and senate, a high-level secur…
Egypt sentences Muslim Brotherhood ex-leader for 2011 case
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced a leader from the banned Muslim Brotherhood party to life imprisonment over his role in a border and prison infiltration case, after receiving a life sentence last year for different charges. Mahmoud Ezzat was conv…
Jordanians urge gov’t to end Israel ties over Al-Aqsa raids
Israeli raids on the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem have sparked outrage among neighbouring Jordan’s public and political sphere. On Saturday, 76 members of Jordan’s parliament signed a written request urging the government to close the Isra…
China reports first 3 Shanghai Covid deaths since lockdown
China said on Monday that just three people have died from Covid-19 in Shanghai since a gruelling lockdown began last month, despite recording hundreds of thousands of cases of the fast-spreading Omicron variant in the eastern megacity. Authorities sai…
More ‘prisoners of conscience’ to be free in Iraqi Kurdistan
Authorities in the Iraqi Kurdistan region are set to free Berivan Ayoub Hassan, a 35-year old mother of five held without charge for over 16 months, following the release of two more “prisoners of conscience” last Thursday, a lawyer defending the priso…
Israeli troops critically wound two Palestinians in W Bank
Israeli forces critically injured two Palestinian men in the illegally occupied West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian health ministry said on the same day Israel launched its third violent raid against East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque in recent days. The…