SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir – Sana Irshad Mattoo, 28, a Kashmiri woman photographer, has been awarded this year’s Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for her coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Besides Mattoo, who contributes to Reuters as a multimedia journalist, three Reuters photojournalists- Adnan Abidi, Amit Dave and late Danish Si...
BRUSSELS – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell pledged an extra €1 billion ($1.06 billion) support for the Syrian people for this year at the Brussels Syria Conference. “I am pleased to announce an additional €1 billion aid for the calendar year of 2022,” Borrell said at his opening speech at the 6th Brussels conference […]...
JERUSALEM – US President Joe Biden is considering a visit to occupied East Jerusalem during his upcoming visit to Israel in June, according to an Israeli official. The official said Biden would possibly visit Al Makassed Hospital in the city, although the plans are not yet to be finalized. If confirmed, the visit is likely […]
ANKARA – Russia continues to suffer massive human and material losses in Ukraine, with hundreds of its soldiers killed and more equipment destroyed over the past day, the Ukrainian military has claimed. Since the war began on February 24, about 26,000 Russian troops, including 350 in the past day, have been killed in Ukraine, according [...
ISTANBUL – Palestinian weightlifter Hamada Mohammed has won a gold medal at the IWF Junior World Championships. Mohammed won the top prize in the men’s 102 kg snatch category after lifting 168 kilograms. Having lifted 193 kg in the cIean and jerk, the 20-year-old took home the bronze overall with 361 total points. Uzbek athlete [&h...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) – About a dozen women protested in the Afghan capital on Tuesday against the Taliban’s new edict that females must fully cover their faces and bodies when in public. Afghanistan’s supreme leader and Taliban chief Hibatullah Akhundzada issued a mandate over the weekend ordering women to cover up fully,...
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The United States has said that President Vladimir Putin was “absurd” and insulting history by casting Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a defensive operation on the anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany. “To call this a defensive action is patently absurd,” State Departmen...
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – The European Union’s coordinator for talks between Iran and world powers over restoring a 2015 nuclear deal will visit Tehran this week, Iran’s foreign ministry has said. “The agenda for talks (with Enrique Mora) in Tehran is nearly finalised. “He will meet with Ali Bagheri, the Islamic Republ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli soldiers injured at least eight Palestinians during raids early Tuesday in the northern city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Jewish settlers, who headed by bus to Joseph’s tomb in Nablus under the protection of the Israeli army, attacked Palestinians in the area, according to information rece...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia did not invite China or Russia to a major international naval conference that began on Tuesday in Sydney, local media reported. This is the first time the biannual three-day event is taking place in the country since the outbreak of COVID-19. Forty nations and over 700 defense companies from around the […]
