GENEVA – Unless the world immediately shifts its total focus away from the war in Ukraine, there will be an explosion of child deaths in the Horn of Africa, a UN official has warned, urging the international community to act immediately. Rania Dagash, UNICEF’s deputy regional director for Eastern and Southern Africa, spoke at a […...
ANKARA – Turkish forces have “neutralized” another 18 PKK fighters in the northern regions of Iraq and Syria, according to the National Defense Ministry. Ten PKK members were targeted in northern Iraq in the Operation Claw-Lock zone, the ministry said. It also claimed that the Turkish soldiers seized numerous arms, ammunition, caves, and...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh has warned that anger has built across the occupied territories over Israeli escalation coupled with international silence over the violations. “Palestine deserves to be a recognized state by the international community, and the Palestinian people deserve to live in...
WASHINGTON – An American woman has pleaded guilty to forming and leading an all-female ISIS militant battalion to fight on the group’s behalf in Syria, the Justice Department has announced. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, admitted to having provided material support or resources to a foreign militant organization, and is scheduled to be s...
OVIEDO, Spain – The Spanish High Court has said that it has called the CEO of Israeli cyber intelligence company NSO Group, Shalev Hulio, to testify as part of an investigation into the Pegasus hacking scandal. Judge Jose Luis Calama will personally travel to Israel to question Hulio, whose software was used to hack the […]
LONDON (AA) – The founder of a proscribed far-right terror group in Britain was jailed for 8.5 years on Tuesday. Alex Davies, the founder of National Action, was found guilty of terrorism charges last month. He was described as the “extremist’s extremist” at the court. Davies is the final member of the proscribed group who [&...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Amnesty International has called on Israel to immediately release a human right defender held under Tel Aviv’s administrative detention policy for another three months. “The Israeli authorities must immediately release Salah Hammouri,” Heba Morayef, Amnesty’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said in a st...
LONDON (AA) – Seven in 10 British Muslims have experienced some form of Islamophobia in the workplace, according to a new poll released on Tuesday. The survey showed some 69% of Muslims currently employed in the UK faced some sort of Islamophobic behavior during work-related engagements. These included interactions with customers, client...
GENEVA (AA) – Israel’s continued occupation of Palestinian territory and discrimination against Palestinians are the root causes of the recurrent tensions, instability, and protracted conflict in the region, a new UN report said Tuesday. The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, includi...
LONDON: More than a hundred women in London marched 16 kilometers to highlight “malignant racism and misogyny” against Black women. The march, organized by the Women’s Equality Party, stretched from Fryent Park in northwest London to the New Scotland Yard. It came on the second anniversary of the murder of two sisters, Nicole...
