Kabul, Afghanistan – (AFP) Two gunmen were shot dead in the Afghan capital Thursday near the site of a gathering by thousands of religious scholars called to endorse the Taliban’s hardline Islamist rule. Taliban officials said the two started firing from a rooftop near where the meeting was taking place, but were “quickly eli...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s military conducted airstrikes in Zamfara state, “neutralizing” dozens of gang members, the Defense Ministry said late Thursday. Bernard Onyeuko, the deputy spokesman for the ministry, said aerial raids dubbed “Operation Hadin Kai” targeted gang elements in the Bakura region and 82 armed gang members were killed....
NEW DELHI (AA) – Eight people were killed and more than 50 went missing after a massive landslide hit the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. The landslide hit the Tupul railway construction camp in the Noney district on June 29 at midnight. “We have recovered eight bodies and rescued 18 people, while over 50 are […]
ANKARA (AA) – Ukraine has cut off diplomatic relations with Syria as the latter recognized the self-proclaimed independence of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions. “There is no doubt that the Syrian regime is trying to give pseudo-subjectivity to the Russian occupying administrations in Donetsk and Luhansk at the behest of its Kremlin ...
PARIS (AA) – One person has been indicted by a court in Paris and nine others may soon be charged over the deaths of 27 migrants in the English Channel in November 2021. French police arrested 13 men and two women for their involvement in what the UN migration agency had described as the “worst […]
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Sweden fully supports the NATO accession agreement reached with Türkiye, the country’s prime minister has said. “We are 100% behind the agreement,” Magdalena Andersson told reporters. Sweden and Finland had formally applied to join the alliance last month- a decision spurred by Russia’s war on Ukraine. However, Türkiye voiced ...
MADRID (AA) – Washington “should sell” F-16 fighter jets to Türkiye, US President Joe Biden said on Thursday, adding that he is confident that the needed congressional approval will be obtained. “We should sell the F-16 to Turkey. I said that in December and my position hasn’t changed since then. It’s not in our interests […...
PARIS (AA) – The Brussels Criminal Court delivered a three-year suspended prison sentence on Thursday to Abid Aberkane, the last “landlord” of the now-convicted Salah Abdeslam, the ringleader of the November 13, 2015, attacks in Paris, according to French newspaper Le Monde. Aberkane hosted Abdeslam in Brussels in the spring of 2016, as he fle...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – The Nigerian state government in Jigawa confirmed Thursday that a citizen duped villages into demolishing mosques after assuring them his “foreign non-profit organization NGO” would build newer, larger structures. Abba Haruna, 21, allegedly sold items he received from the mosques in the rural state in northern Nigeri...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Five people were killed in protests Thursday demanding the reversal of the military takeover in Sudan, according to a local medical group. The fatalities occurred as security forces used violence against protesters in Omdurman, the Central Committee of the Sudanese Doctors said in a statement. It said dozens of dem...
