BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – A pro-Russian march was held in Serbia’s capital during Victory Day events to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany in the Second World War. Hundreds of people attended the Victory Day program celebrated across Serbia and the Republika Srpska, one of two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina. During the ceremoni...
ISTANBUL – China has revealed its military forces held military drills across the Taiwan Strait from May 6 to 8, a statement by the country’s Defense Ministry said. The naval, air and conventional missile forces of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s Eastern Theater Command held drills in seas and airspace to the east and southwest [&hellip...
ANKARA – Some 44 migrants are believed to have died after their boat, carrying over 50 people, capsized off Cape Bojador on the west coast of Western Sahara. “Forty-four people have died this morning in a shipwreck south of Cape Bojador,” Helena Maleno Garzon, the founder of the migrant aid agency Caminando Fronteras (Walking...
BEIRUT, Lebanon – The voter turnout of the Lebanese diaspora in Lebanon’s parliamentary elections reached 60%, according to the country’s foreign ministry. Foreign Ministry official Hadi Hashem said between 128,000 and 130,000 expatriates in 58 countries cast their votes out of 225,000 eligible Lebanese voters worldwide. “The turnout of expatr...
ANKARA – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has denounced Israeli plans to build thousands of new settlement units by demolishing Palestinian homes and razing Palestinian villages. The OIC said in a written statement that it “condemned the plans of Israel to build 4,000 new settlement units on occupied Palestinian land and to ...
MOSCOW – Russia started its “special military operation” in Ukraine to prevent incursion on its territory, and it was “the only right decision,” President Vladimir Putin has said. Addressing the 77th Victory Day at the Red Square in Moscow, marked to celebrate Soviet Union’s victory over Nazi Germany in Worl...
KHARTOUM, Sudan – The Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF) has welcomed the launch of a national dialogue facilitated by the UN and the African Union. The SRF is an alliance of political and armed groups formed in 2011 to oppose the regime of former President Omar al-Bashir. “We welcome the planned launch of dialogue between Sudanese […]...
ISTANBUL – Some 25,650 Russian soldiers have so far been killed during the war in Ukraine, the Ukrainian military has claimed. Ukrainian forces have destroyed 199 Russian aircraft, 158 helicopters, 377 unmanned aerial vehicles, 1,145 tanks, 2,764 armored vehicles, and 513 artillery systems, according to the Ukrainian General Staff’s late...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AA) – The head of a political and economic union of Gulf countries held talks on Monday with the UN envoy to Yemen on efforts to end the eight-year conflict in the Arab country. A statement issued by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) following the meeting between GCC Secretary-General Naif al-Hajraf and […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – At least 50 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the start of this year, the Health Ministry said on Monday. A ministry statement said the West Bank city of Jenin recorded the highest death toll with 17 fatalities and Nablus with seven deaths. There was no comment from the […]
