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...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden said on Friday he has no plans to sit down with Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader as he prepares to visit the Kingdom next month. Asked if he would meet with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, Biden said, “I’m not going to meet with” him. “I’m going […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – The Serb member of the Bosnia Herzegovina’s tripartite Presidency announced Friday that he would block all projects if Russia’s Gazprom pipeline project is stopped. Republika Srpska is working on the “New Eastern Interconnection, — the gas connection between the Serb-majority entity and Serbia, a...
JUBA, South Sudan (AA) – South Sudan endorsed two protocols Friday that will boost economic growth, according to Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mayiik Ayii Deng. “The free movement of persons and livestock will help our economy to grow,” Deng told reporters during a signing ceremony for the Inter-Governmental A...
