Kabul, 22 Dec. 2019 (AlJazeera News) Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani is on course for a second five-year term after preliminary results showed him winning 50.64 percent of the votes in the September 28 elections. The Independent Election Commission (IEC) announced the results on Sunday, putting Ghani's nearest rival Abdullah Abdullah second with 39.52 percent of...

Ankara, 20 Dec. 2019 The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) said Friday there is reasonable basis to investigate alleged war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories. "I am satisfied that there is a reasonable basis to proceed with an investigation into the situation in Palestine," Fatou Bensouda said in a statement. "In...

KUALA LUMPUR The leaders of Muslim countries around the world underlined the importance of solidarity and unity between Muslim nations during a summit in the Malaysian capital on Thursday.   At the opening ceremony of the Kuala Lumpur Summit, leaders sent common messages on problems facing the Islamic world, including the development of Muslim societies, increasing...

Washington, 19 Dec. 2019 (CNN) President Donald Trump was impeached by the House of Representatives in a near party-line vote Wednesday. He is still the President. What comes next is a trial in the Senate early next year that could, but probably won't, cost him the White House. So what happens now? House Speaker Nancy...

Islamabad, 17 Dec. 2019 (Daily dawn) A special court in Islamabad on Tuesday found former military ruler retired Gen Pervez Musharraf guilty of high treason and handed him a death sentence under Article 6 of the Constitution. This is the first time in Pakistan's history that a military chief has been declared guilty of high...

Doha, 11 Dec. 2019 (Bernama.com) Prime Minister of Malaysia,  Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad arrived here Wednesday to begin his four-day official visit to Qatar. After his special aircraft touched down at the Hamad International Airport in the Qatar capital at 9.15 pm local time (2.15 am Thursday Malaysian time), Dr Mahathir and his wife, Tun...

Ankara, 09 Dec. 2019 (Anadolu News) Turkey and NATO will continue supporting Afghanistan as long as Kabul seeks their help, the Turkish foreign minister said on Monday. Speaking at a joint news conference with Afghanistan’s acting Foreign Minister Idrees Zaman, Mevlut Cavusoglu said Afghanistan has been going through a “sensitive time”. He said some international...

DOHA, 30 November 2019 Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi, Minister of State for Energy Affairs, called for united efforts to ensuring that gas exporting countries continue to develop their natural gas resources and expand their trade routes. Addressing the 5thSummit of the Heads of State and Government of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF)in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea...

Doha, 30 Nov. 2019 Doha International Conference on “Social Media: Challenges and Ways of Supporting Freedoms and Protecting Activists”  will be held on February 16-17, 2020. The conference is arranged in cooperation with Office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, European Parliament, Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions and the International Federation...

Seoul, 16 Nov 2019 (Yonhap News) A group of South Korean activists staged a rally Saturday to protest against the United States' reported call for Seoul to sharply increase its share of the cost to maintain U.S. troops here. The rally, organized and attended by some 50 civic groups, including the Korean Confederation of Trade...