DHAKA (AA) – Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry criticized a US human rights country report on the South Asian nation, saying the sources of the report are questionable and it also contains a few factual errors. “For example, though we do not endorse their information, the Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) mentioned 275 extrajudicial killings (in Ban...
KABUL (AA): More than 130 children have died from the measles epidemic in Afghanistan since the beginning of this year. After the US army withdrew from the country, international aid was cut off and the economic crisis deepened. Children are the most affected by war, hunger and poverty. At least 16,000 children have been infected […]
DOHA, Qatar – Qatar’s Shura Council has condemned Israeli attacks on worshippers inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. We express our “condemnation of the Israeli practices of storming the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and attacking Palestinian worshipers,” the advisory council stated. It called for swift “internat...
SANAA, Yemen – UN envoy to Yemen Hans Grundberg arrived in the country’s interim capital Aden for talks with government officials. The UN envoy was accompanied by Yemeni Defense Minister Mohammad Ali Al-Maqdashi and Faraj Al-Bahsani, a member of the newly formed Presidential Council. On April 17, Grundberg held talks in the Saudi capital, Riya...
KIGALI, Rwanda – Eritrea has said that the deal between Rwanda and Britain to resettle asylum seekers attempting to enter the UK was ‘disgraceful.’ Last week, Rwanda and the UK inked a major deal under which Britain will send asylum seekers to the East African country. The agreement was signed by UK Home Secretary Priti [&hel...
KIRKLARELI, Turkiye – At least 84 irregular migrants have claimed that they were pushed back to Turkiye half-naked by Bulgarian border units. Gendarmerie teams in Turkiye’s northwestern Kirklareli province noticed that there were semi-naked irregular migrants in the forest area during their patrol in Kofcaz district near the Bulgar...
KARACHI / NEW DELHI – Pakistani and Indian political observers do not foresee any immediate easing of heightened hostilities between the two nuclear neighbors despite a recent regime change in Islamabad. The already fraught relations between the two countries further worsened in ugust 2019, when New Delhi stripped the disputed Jammu and ...
KYIV, Ukraine – Some 20,600 Russian soldiers have been killed since the war began in Ukraine on February 24, the Ukrainian military has said. Ukrainian forces have destroyed 167 Russian aircraft, 147 helicopters, 155 unmanned aerial vehicles, 790 tanks, 2,041 armored vehicles and 381 artillery systems, according to the Ukrainian General ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A Pakistani court on Monday handed the death penalty to six men found involved in lynching a Sri Lankan factory manager last year, according to local media and the court record. Another seven were sentenced to life imprisonment, while some 76 accused were given two-year jail terms over the incident that […...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Nine Palestinians were injured Monday in fresh Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. Medics treated six Palestinians for injuries in the towns of al-Yamun and Kafr Dan in Jenin in the northern West Bank, it said in a statement. According to eyewitnesses, Israeli [...
