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Tunisia’s president told the US secretary of state that his country was preparing to come out from its “exceptional situation”, the presidency said Sunday, almost four months after a shock power grab. On July 25, President Kais Saied sacked the government, suspended parliament and seized an array of powers, citing an “imminent threat” to the country, the birthplace of the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings against autocracy. On September 22, he suspended parts of the constitution and installed rule by decree, maintaining full control of the judiciary as well as powers to sack ministers and issue laws…. Continue reading “Saied tells Blinken Tunisia readying to exit ‘exceptional situation’”

The Palestinian group Hamas has began moving to confront Britain’s decision to classify it as a ‘terror’ group, a senior official said on Saturday. In a press statement, Ismail Haniyeh, the leader of the group, said that his movement is working to fight the decision by isolating it via the labour offices of the movement’s leadership and its national, Arab, Islamic and international relations. “This controversial decision is a new attack on our people and their rights, especially as it came to bias to the Israeli occupation that seeks all the times to criminalise our struggle,” Haniyeh said. He… Continue reading “Gazans denounce Britain’s decision against Hamas”

Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthi movement said on Saturday it had fired 14 drones at several Saudi Arabian cities, including at Saudi Aramco facilities in Jeddah. The Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea said in a televised press conference that the group had attacked Aramco’s refineries in Jeddah as well as military targets in Riyadh, Jeddah, Abha, Jizan and Najran. Sarea’s statement contained inaccuracies. It mentioned the wrong name for the international airport in Jeddah and the wrong location for King Khalid base, saying it was in Riyadh when it is actually in the south of the kingdom. Aramco… Continue reading “Yemen’s Houthis ‘attack Saudi cities, oil facilities’”