YEREVAN, Armenia – Normalization talks between neighboring Turkiye and Armenia should not be neglected but should continue, Armenia’s premier has said. The sides should do their best to see that the talks go on, Nikol Pashinyan said in an address to Armenia’s parliament in the capital Yerevan. Saying that the Armenian side is aware of [&...
ANKARA – At least 191 children have been killed and 349 injured since the beginning of Russia’s war against Ukraine, the Ukrainian Office of the Prosecutor General has said. Children in the Donetsk, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Mykolaiv, Luhansk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, and Zhytomyr regions, as well as the capital Kyiv, have been...
TORONTO – Former Afghan interpreters for the Canadian army are urging Ottawa to treat their family members fleeing the Taliban the same way as Ukrainians escaping from Russian troops. Speaking at a parliamentary committee, the interpreters called on the Canadian government to let their families into the country as easily as Ukrainians, reporte...
WASHINGTON – Secretary of State Antony Blinken apologized to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last month for the US response to attacks on the emirates from Yemen’s Houthi rebels, according to a report. The UAE had been frustrated about the US response to Houthi attacks just as Washington has been vexed by Abu Dhabi’s response ...
TRENTON, Canada – Canada’s largest Muslim charitable organization has launched a court challenge, saying the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) probe into its affairs is rife with Islamophobia. The Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) wants the CRA audit stopped because it is unfairly “tainted by systemic bias and Islamophobia...
LONDON (AA) – A man who killed veteran British lawmaker David Amess in a knife attack last year was jailed for life on Wednesday. Ali Harbi Ali, 26, stabbed Amess multiple times at a public meeting in Essex last October, declaring the attack revenge for the Conservative lawmaker’s support for the bombing of Syria. Found […]
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AA) – Saudi Arabia and Kuwait said Wednesday they have the right to develop the Durra offshore gas field which is also claimed by Iran. In a statement issued by the Saudi Foreign Ministry, Riyadh said it has reached an agreement with Kuwait “to expedite the development and exploitation of the Durra […]
BAGHDAD (AA) – Angry demonstrators shut an oil refinery in Dhi Qar province in southern Iraq on Wednesday, protesting against lack of jobs for local residents, according to witnesses. Dozens of university graduates gathered in front of the Al-Gharraf oilfield to demand employment, witnesses said. “They protested a month after they applied for ...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Christians in Jerusalem have protested Israeli restrictions on the celebrations of the Holy Fire Saturday in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in East Jerusalem. The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate and the Armenian Patriarchate have also protested a decision by Israeli police to limit the number of participants in the April 16 cele...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Saudi Arabia on Wednesday vowed support to cash-strapped Lebanon amid a crippling economic crisis in the country. Saudi Ambassador Walid Bukhari met with Lebanese President Michel Aoun at the presidential palace in Beirut. Aoun was briefed by the Saudi envoy on the working mechanism of the Saudi-French joint fund “dedica...
