BEIJING (AA) – China on Tuesday said no one wants the Russia-Ukraine conflict to turn into World War III. “No one wants to see a third world war break out,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters when asked about Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s comments on “a real threat of World War III.” […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has demanded a “thorough investigation” into the attack in Pakistan’s financial hub Karachi that killed at least four people, including three Chinese citizens. An explosion ripped through a van near the University of Karachi’s Confucius Institute, a Chinese language learning center, on Tuesday. Amo...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Four Syrian soldiers were killed and three others were injured in an Israeli missile attack on the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, according to the state news agency SANA. Citing a military source, SANA said the Israeli military targeted several positions of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s forces in Damascus’ vic...
ANKARA (AA) – Total global military spending rose 0.7% to $2.1 trillion in 2021, with the US, China, India, UK and Russia making up 65% of this, according to data released Tuesday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). US expenditures fell 1.4% to $801 billion in 2021 compared to the previous year, but […...
PARIS (AA) – Dozens of irregular migrants, including families with children, who sought a better life by embarking on a perilous journey and crossing multiple countries to reach France, have been living in deplorable conditions in a parking lot in a Paris suburb for months. Nearly 200 irregular migrants from Iran, Morocco, and notably Afghanis...
LONDON – It is “entirely legitimate” for Ukraine to hit military targets within Russia using Western-supplied weapons, a top British defense official has said. Armed Forces Minister James Heappey has said Ukrainian forces have every right to go after Russian supply lines and destroy them to hinder Moscow’s war effort and add more pressur...
GENEVA – The UN refugee agency has projected that the number of people fleeing the war in Ukraine will soar to 8.3 million by the end of this year. “The rapidity with which people are fleeing, we have not seen in recent times,” UNHCR spokeswoman Shabia Mantoo said. Mantoo said the number of internally displaced […]
GAZA CITY, Palestine – Palestinian rights groups have condemned an Israeli court decision rejecting a request to reinvestigate the killing of four children by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2014. The four boys were killed in an Israeli airstrike while playing on a beach in the Gaza Strip on July 16, 2014. On Sunday April […]
TUNIS, Tunisia – A Tunisian politician has called for a rescue plan to help pull the country out of its current political and economic crises. “There must be reforms in order to save Tunisia through a rescue plan to cruise the country out of the political, economic and social crises,” Ahmed Najib Chebbi, a leader […]
WASHINGTON – The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution requiring permanent members of the Security Council to come before the assembly to provide an explanation should they exercise their veto powers. The resolution was adopted by consensus, meaning individual member states did not have to cast votes. The veto power of the five pe...
