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Dems, Trump clash over Turkey’s war
US President Donald Trump and Democratic leaders cut short a meeting over Turkey’s war after the commander in chief experiences a 'meltdown.' Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told reporters Wednesday that Trump called House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a "third-rate politician" and as the result, the meeting in the White House deteriorated into a 'diatribe.' "What we witnessed on the part of the president was a meltdown. ...
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Iran urges global bid to end plights of Palestine, Yemen
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has underlined the need for global consultations on war-ravaged and displaced people of the world, especially the oppressed nations of Palestine and Yemen. President Rouhani made the remarks in a Wednesday meeting with South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor in Tehran. Read more: Yemen death toll five times higher than UN estimates UN rapporteurs urged to uncover Israeli crimes against Palestinians He ...
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Iran urges global bid to end plights of Palestine, Yemen
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has underlined the need for global consultations on war-ravaged and displaced people of the world, especially the oppressed nations of Palestine and Yemen. President Rouhani made the remarks in a Wednesday meeting with South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor in Tehran. Read more: Yemen death toll five times higher than UN estimates UN rapporteurs urged to uncover Israeli crimes against Palestinians He ...
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Gazans challenge occupation by planting olive trees
Ruba Shabat Press TV The Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture held a festival to announce the beginning of olive harvest season. Every October, Gazans come together to celebrate the ancient tradition of olive harvest where families, farmers and children experience picking olives. This festival is considered as a revival for the symbolic, national and economic importance of the holy tree. Hundreds of thousands of olive trees have been uprooted during wars imposed by ...
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Jailed Saudi cleric’s son arrested for supporting Palestine
Saudi authorities have reportedly arrested the son of an imprisoned prominent dissident cleric over his support for the Palestinian cause and strong denunciation of the kingdom’s attempts to normalize diplomatic relations with the Israeli regime after years of clandestine contacts. The rights group Prisoners of Conscience, which is an independent non-governmental organization advocating human rights in Saudi Arabia, announced in a post on its official Twitter page that Saudi officials have detained ...
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Mediation won’t solve Iran-Saudi Arabia issues: MP
TEHRAN, Oct. 16 (MNA) – A member of Parliament’s national security commission said while Pakistan’s efforts to mediate between Iran and Saudi Arabia are welcome, the issues between the two sides will not be resolved through mediation.
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Is the Syrian End Game Coming into Sight?
The retreat of US forces from northern Syria opened the gates to a Turkish attack on Kurdish ‘terrorists.’ Driven back by the Turkish military’s proxies, the Kurds finally returned to the national fold and asked the Syrian government for s...
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Zakzaky supporters say soldiers plan to attack Arba’een rally
Danjuma Abdullahi Press TV Abuja Nigerian cleric Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky’s supporters announced in a press conference that there is a plan by the Nigerian security forces to attack and kill marchers who will engage in the forthcoming annual symbolic trek across the country. They said the security forces have hatched a plan to attack and kill trekkers if they come out, and another alternative plan that is also guaranteed to cause violence ...
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109 million EU citizens living on poverty line
Jerome Hughes Press TV, Brussels The heads of the EU institutions, as well as civil society groups, business leaders and union representatives all came together in Brussels to take part in the so-called 'Tripartite Social Summit'. This, as figures just released by the EU's statistical agency, Eurostat, show that 109 million people in the bloc are living on the poverty line, that's 22% of the EU's entire population. Social Dialogue Commissioner ...
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Pakistani women rally over curfew in Kashmir
Javed Rana Press TV, Islamabad Thousands of women in Pakistani capital Islamabad took to the streets to protest over two and half months long curfew and communication blackout in Indian disputed Kashmir region. The disputed territory has been under security clampdown since early August when New Delhi abolished its special status and annexed the region into Indian federation. Since then there has been outrage on Pakistani streets which regularly are filled with ...
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