BRUSSELS (AA) – The Turkish defense minister has said Sweden and Finland provided political, financial and military support to “terror groups,” threatening not only Türkiye but also NATO. The minister was referring to Kurdish nationalist groups PKK and its offshoot YPG. Speaking to reporters following a two-day NATO gathering...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia is not concerned that Ukraine could get the status of a European Union candidate “because the EU is not a military organization,” Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. Speaking at the plenary meeting of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Putin questioned whether joining the EU will benefit Ukraine,...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – The UN refugee agency has called for urgent support for about 16,000 people — mostly women and children — in Burkina Faso, who have been driven out of their homes by a recent insurgent attack that left dozens dead in the country’s Sahel region. Since June 12, almost 16,000 Burkinabe have […]
MOSCOW (AA) – The Russian Defense Ministry has claimed that nearly 2,000 foreign mercenaries fighting on Ukraine’s side have died in battles. According to the ministry, 6,956 people have arrived in Ukraine since February 24, when the war started; 1,779 left the country. At least 3,221 foreigners are fighting on the Ukrainian side, ...
Tangiers, Morocco – (AFP): Four women have pressed charges in Morocco against French insurance tycoon Jacques Bouthier, currently under arrest in Paris on charges of raping a minor, a rights group said Friday. Bouthier is accused of various acts of “people trafficking, sexual harassment and verbal and moral violence,” between...
ANKARA (AA) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Türkiye on June 22, the Turkish president announced on Friday. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after Friday prayer in Istanbul, told reporters that during the Saudi crown prince’s official visit to the capital Ankara on June 22, they will discuss ways to take bilateral relations...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is considering the possibility of forming an alternate government with opposition leader and former premier Benjamin Netanyahu, according to local media on Friday. Bennett met late Thursday with his political advisers, including Aron Shaviv in the headquarters of the Defense Ministry in T...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Al Jazeera network has published a photo of a bullet it said killed its correspondent in Palestine, Shireen Abu Akleh, while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank. An investigation conducted by the media network and published on its website stated that “the green-tipped bullet was designed to...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – A 92-year-old Roman Catholic priest has been charged in connection with a decade-long sexual abuse investigation into a former Indian Residential School, Manitoba police said at a press conference Friday. Retired father Arthur Masse is accused of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl at the former Fort Alexander resi...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The top American and Senegalese diplomats vowed on Friday to deepen bilateral cooperation, discussing a range of issues that included the COVID-19 pandemic and the ramifications of Russia’s war on Ukraine for Africa. Secretary of State Antony Blinken hosted Senegalese Foreign Minister Aïssata Tall Sall at the Stat...
