WASHINGTON (AA) – The US House of Representatives has approved $40 billion in new funding for Ukraine as the country battles Russian forces. The 368-57 vote sends the sweeping package to the Senate, which is expected to vote on and pass it as soon as this week. All of the opposition in the House came […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia claimed Tuesday that Ukraine lost dozens of soldiers and weapons during a three-day conflict on Snake Island located in the Black Sea. In a statement, the country’s military spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, said Kyiv lost a total of four aircraft, 10 helicopters, 30 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), three armored warships and o...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – Police in Ecuador announced Tuesday that 200 inmates who escaped following a deadly prison riot were recaptured. “A total of 220 citizens escaped yesterday, and at this moment, we have recaptured 200,” said police chief of operations Geovanny Ponce. The prisoners escaped during a prison riot between ri...
JERUSALEM (AA) – At least 22 Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces on Tuesday during a home demolition in occupied East Jerusalem, according to medics. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics treated 16 Palestinians in Silwan neighborhood in the city this evening following clashes with Israeli soldiers. Six other Palestinian...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Elite soldiers from the Somali National Army conducted a military operation Tuesday against the al-Qaeda-affiliated al-Shabaab terrorist group in the southern province of Lower Juba, killing at least 11 terrorists. The special operation was conducted near El-Ade village on the outskirts of the port city of Kisma...
BERLIN – Neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists committed 21,964 crimes in Germany last year, the government has admitted. German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser presented the government’s report on politically motivated crimes at a news conference in Berlin. “Far-right is the biggest threat to our democracy and the biggest extremist threat ...
ALGIERS, Algeria – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks with Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad Ramtane Lamamra on Tuesday as the two countries marked the 60th anniversary of the establishment of their diplomatic relations. Lavrov “took part in the wreath-laying ceremony at the monument to the heroe...
KIGALI, Rwanda – At least 14 civilians were killed in an overnight attack on a camp for internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Ituri province. Most of the victims were beheaded with machetes, according to the Kivu Security Tracker. It blamed the attack on the Lodda camp, located near the town […]
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories- A year after its devastating war with Israel, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas is faced with a dilemma: to keep up the resistance struggle or to lay low and reconstruct the Gaza Strip? On May 10, 2021, the storming of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound by Israeli forces led to violent clashes […]
PARIS – France’s junior minister for Europe has asserted that Ukraine will have to be included in the European family by undertaking fundamental reforms of the European Union as French President Emmanuel Macron made a bid for a “parallel European community.” Clement Beaune, who holds the office of the secretary of state for Europea...
