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Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of central Tunis, chanting anti-government slogans, following a presidential decree published on the official gazette. In the controversial decree, President Kais Saied gave himself additional powers over the country’s judiciary by establishing a new judicial watchdog that allows him to appoint, promote, and …

The African Union (AU) should not be legitimizing an apartheid regime like Israel, says an analyst, adding that the apartheid Israel should be treated the same way as apartheid South Africa. Patrick Gathara, a Kenyan political analyst and cartoonist, in an article published by Aljazeera said just like it would have been …

Canadian police have cleared protesters and vehicles that had blocked a key border crossing with the United States in protest against the government’s COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine mandates. Police made several arrests and towed vehicles near the Ambassador Bridge linking Detroit and the city of Windsor, Ontario, on Sunday, after protesters …

Bahrain’s most prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim has called for the establishment of a democratic and constitutional system to replace the ruling Al Khalifah dynasty in the Persian Gulf country. “The Bahraini nation’s demands are of paramount importance. Bahrainis will carry on with their popular uprising until …

Saudi warplanes have destroyed the building that housed the Yemen International Telecommunications Co (TeleYemen) in the capital Sana’a less than three weeks after the internet and international telecommunications were cut off across the war-wracked Arab country due to similar air raids. Yemen’s al-Masirah television network reported that the Saudi fighter …

Thousands demonstrated in support of President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas on Saturday to mark International Youth Day, an important annual event in Venezuela, while the opposition mobilized a demonstration of about 500 people. Maduro’s supporters demonstrated their strength in the capital’s streets with drumming, salsa dancing and waving Venezuelan flags, …

Four high-ranking commanders of militiamen supporting Yemen’s former Saudi-backed former government have reportedly defected and joined the Yemeni army and their allied Popular Committees, which continue to make decisive gains in the battle against the Riyadh-led aggression. Officials from Yemen’s National Salvation Government received the quartet during a ceremony in …

Bahraini opposition groups have called for mass participation in rallies marking the eleventh anniversary of the February 14 uprising, as the Al Khalifah regime continues its heavy-handed crackdown on dissent in the Persian Gulf country. According to Press TV, the groups published schedules of their activities on social media accounts, …

Bahrain has confirmed media reports that an Israeli officer will be stationed in the tiny Persian Gulf country, which plays host to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet. In a statement carried by the state news agency on Saturday, Bahrain’s Foreign Ministry said the appointment will be related to the work of …

Lebanese officials have decided to impose a ban on Bahraini opposition groups intending to hold two events in the country, amid a diplomatic rift pitting Saudi Arabia and its Persian Gulf allies against Lebanon over Beirut’s criticism of the Riyadh-led war on Yemen. According to Press TV, on Thursday, Lebanese …

The leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement has condemned the recent fatal shooting of three young Palestinian men by Israeli troops during an operation in the occupied West Bank, stressing that armed struggle against the occupying Israeli regime will continue unabated across the Palestinian territories.  “The blood of …

Russia’s foreign ministry repeats Moscow’s call for the illegal Zionist entity to stop its incessant attacks on Syrian soil, underlining the geopolitical and security repercussions of the operations. “Israel’s continuing strikes against targets inside Syria cause deep concern. They are a crude violation of Syria’s sovereignty,” spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said …

The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) says the civilian death toll in Yemen has almost doubled since the United Nations rights body dissolved its monitoring mechanism in the war-torn country. Reporting on Thursday, the NRC said 823 civilians were killed or injured in the four months before the end of monitoring, …

Demonstrators have rallied in Jaipur city over the hijab ban in the southern state of Karnataka, as the backlash over restrictions on the Muslim head covering in schools intensifies across India. Protesters on Saturday came out on the streets of Jaipur in Rajasthan state with posters and chanted slogans, condemning …

Turkmenistan will hold snap elections next month after President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov announced he is ready to relinquish power to younger people. “The president … gave us an instruction to prepare for early presidential elections on March 12,” Bezergen Garrayev, a Spokesman for the Election Commission, told AFP. The country’s parliament …

New voting rules in the US State of Texas are causing a high number of ballot rejections ahead of next month’s state governor’s primary, election supervisors have warned. New stricter voter ID requirements, which have been passed in many US states by Republicans, will badly affect Democrat-leaning voters of color, …

American Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky has expressed his optimism for anti-vaccine protesters in trucks to “clog up [US] cities” amid a warning by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that a convoy of anti-vaccine truckers may soon begin in the country. “I’m all for it,” said Paul, …

The US and some of its allies have called on their citizens to leave Ukraine, raising the alarm about an imminent invasion by Russia despite Moscow’s denials and Kiev’s warnings that the West’s unnecessary scaremongering is wreaking havoc on its economy. The White House claimed that Russia could invade Ukraine before …

Russia’s Foreign Ministry calls disrespectful and lacking in substance, a joint response by the Western military alliance of NATO and the European Union to its security demands. According to a statement issued by the ministry on Friday, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov had asked all member nations of the two blocs …

The Taliban government in Afghanistan has condemned as “theft” and a sign of “moral decay” a recent decision by the United States to use billions of dollars of frozen Afghan assets to compensate the claimants of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The White House announced on Friday that the administration of US President Joe Biden …