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World leaders meet under shadow of global divisions, 3 wars

Muhamad Yehia UNITED NATIONS (AP) — World leaders will open their annual meeting at the U.N. General Assembly Tuesday under the shadow of increasing global divisions, major wars in Gaza, Ukraine and, Sudan and the threat of an even larger conflict in the wider Middle East Secretary-General Antonio Guterres previewed his opening “State of …

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Arab League holds meeting to link rail transport between Arab countries

Sahar Ragab This morning, Tuesday, the first meeting of the Arab Technical Committee for the Exchange of Experiences in the Field of Directed Transport (Metro) was held at the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the League of Arab States. , tramway, cable car In implementation of the decision of …

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Several Mark Robinson campaign staffers quit as fallout over online posts continues

Muhamad yehia RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Several top staffers in North Carolina Republican Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson’s campaign for governor have quit their posts, marking more fallout from a CNN report outlining evidence that he made disturbing posts on a pornography website’s message board more than a decade ago. The …

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Hezbollah, Israel exchange heavy fire after deadly Israeli strike

Muhamad Yehia Israel says it hit 290 targets, destroyed rocket launchers Hezbollah says it targeted airbase with dozens of missiles Hezbollah says 16 members killed in Friday strike Iran-backed group in Iraq reports attacks on Israel BEIRUT/HAIFA, Israel, Sept 22 (Reuters) – Israel and Hezbollah exchanged heavy fire into Sunday, …

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Kenya’s Ruto open to converting Haiti mission to U.N.

Muhamad Yehia PORT-AU-PRINCE, Sept 21 (Reuters) – Kenyan President William Ruto, on a visit to Haiti, said on Saturday that he was open to Kenya’s anti-gang mission in the country being converted to a full U.N. peacekeeping operation. Ruto visited Haiti to assess the progress of the Multinational Security Support …

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UN chief Guterres ‘gravely alarmed’ by reports of RSF assault on al-Fashir

Muhamad Yehia UNITED NATIONS, Sept 21 (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is “gravely alarmed” by reports of a full-scale assault on the Sudanese city of al-Fashir by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and called on its leader to halt the attack immediately, a U.N. spokesperson said on …

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In Nigeria’s food belt, fears of another flood as Cameroon opens dam

BENUE, Nigeria, Sept 20 (Reuters) – Nigerian farmer Enoch Fater has barely slept in the last few days after water levels started rising at his paddy rice farm and in a major river nearby, pointing to impending floods in Benue state, a major food producer in the central belt. Two …

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Hezbollah leaders among 37 killed in Israeli strike in Lebanon

Sahar ragab BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — Two Hezbollah leaders were among those killed in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb , Israel’s military said Saturday, as Lebanon raised the death toll from the attack to 37, including women and children. Israel and Hezbollah continued to trade fire Saturday, a day after …

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Iran condemns a Taliban delegate’s failure to stand for the Iranian national anthem

Iran expressed its deep displeasure Friday over a Taliban delegate’s failure to stand during the Iranian national anthem at an event in Tehran, state-run media said, following a similar incident in Pakistan earlier in the week. The incident involving the Taliban delegate to the Islamic Unity Conference in the Iranian …

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