DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh has welcomed a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that rejected preliminary objections of Myanmar and cleared the way for a Rohingya genocide case filed by The Gambia to proceed. The ruling rejected the four preliminary objections on legal and procedural grounds, according to a statemen...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – The former head of Nigeria’s Treasury was remanded Friday for his alleged involvement in diverting more than 109 billion Nigerian nairas ($262 million). Justice Adeyemi Ajayi gave the order after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) indicted Ahmad Idris on a 14-count charge including conspiracy, crimin...
LONDON (AA) – Lisa Smith, a former soldier in the Irish Defense Forces, was jailed for 15 months on Friday for being a member of ISIS. Smith, 40, was found guilty in May by a non-jury Special Criminal Court in the Irish capital Dublin. She, however, was acquitted of a separate charge of financing terrorism. […]
TEHRAN (AA) – At least 20 people were killed and three others went missing in flash floods caused by heavy rains in Iran’s southern Fars province, state media said on Saturday. Khalil Abdollahi, head of the province’s crisis management department, said heavy rains near Soltan Shahbaz village in the city of Estahban led to the [&hel...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – A group affiliated with al-Qaeda and ISIS claimed responsibility Saturday for two recent attacks in Mali, purportedly in response to Mali’s collaboration with mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group. An attack on a military base near Mali’s capital Bamako left a soldier dead on Friday. Seven attackers were shot dead ...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – Israeli army killed two Palestinians in northern West Bank on Sunday, the Palestine Red Crescent Society said. In a statement, the humanitarian organization said “two Palestinians were killed by Israeli army’s bullets during an operation at dawn on Sunday, in the old city of Nablus.” The two mar...
TAIZ, YEMEN (AA): A mortar shell fired by the Iran-backed Houthis on Saturday injured 11 children in the city of Taiz in southern Yemen. Taiz Police stated that the Houthis carried out the mortar attack on Taiz’s Zeid al-Mushki District. The statement added that the children, mostly under the age of 10, were seriously and […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The multimillion-dollar khat trade between Somalia and Kenya resumed on Sunday after a break of over two years, a sign of thawing tensions between the East African neighbors. Cargo planes carrying tons of khat (locally known as miraa) landed at the Aden Adde airport in the Somali capital Mogadishu. The khat […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Russia has said that it will not engage in any talks until Ukraine’s Western allies stop their interference. There will not be any negotiations unless Ukraine confirms there will be no interference by London, Washington and its other allies, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Cairo as he kicked off his […]...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Guinea-Bissau’s president and chairman of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Sunday called on the Burkinabe to support the country’s transition government. Umaro Sissoco Embalo made the call after meeting with Burkina Faso leaders, including transition President Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Sandaogo...
