ISTANBUL (AA) – Women foreign ministers from 18 countries on Friday expressed their concern over the suspension of schooling for girls beyond the sixth grade in Afghanistan. “As women and as foreign ministers, we are deeply disappointed and concerned that girls in Afghanistan are being denied access to secondary schools this spring,” for...
GENEVA (AA) – The number of Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank has increased by 23% since 2014, and there are now close to 480,000 settlers, a UN expert told the UN Human Rights Council on Friday. Michael Lynk, the special rapporteur on the situation in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, delivered his […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – Ukraine’s president said Thursday that more than 2,000 children have been kidnapped since the start of Russia’s war against his country. “We do not know the whereabouts of our children,” said Volodymyr Zelenskyy, speaking at the European Council summit, which he attended virtually. Zelenskyy also accused Russia...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US expressed discontent Thursday over the presence of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officers at the Doha Defense Show in Qatar. The US is “deeply disappointed and troubled” by the presence of Iranian military officials and IRGC officers, said US State Department spokesman Ned Price in a statement....
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – A total of 128 children have been killed in Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine as of Thursday, according to Ukrainian officials. Also, more than 172 children have been injured in the conflict since it began late last month, the Prosecutor General’s Office said in a statement. Russian shelling damaged 566 educ...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – Bread prices in Yemen have spiked up to 35 percent, according to the UK-based international humanitarian organization Oxfam on Thursday. The NGO said Yemen imports 42% of its grain from Ukraine, but the Russian war on the country has disrupted the supplies of grain and cooking oil to the war-torn Arab […]
GENEVA (AA) – One month of war in Ukraine has led to the displacement of 4.3 million children – more than half the estimated population of 7.5 million children in the country, UNICEF said Thursday. Among the displaced children are more than 1.8 million who crossed into neighboring countries as refugees and 2.5 million who […]
LONDON (AA) – Britain on Thursday announced fresh sanctions targeting Russia’s 65 strategic industries, banks, and business elites. The sanctions target “those aiding Russia’s invasion of Ukraine including the Wagner Group, multiple defence companies and Russian Railways,” a government statement said. The UK has now “sanctioned over 1,00...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China on Thursday urged the US and NATO to hold dialogue with Russia to “solve the root cause of the Ukraine crisis.” The NATO leaders are meeting in Brussels on Thursday to discuss Russia’s war on Ukraine which began on Feb. 24. On Wednesday, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg had alleged that […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – China’s foreign minister on Thursday arrived in Afghanistan on his maiden trip to the country after the exit of US-led foreign forces last year. As most countries worldwide have taken a wait-and-see approach to the country’s Taliban interim government, officials said the visit by Wang Yi sent a “positive message.” The vis...
