Former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and top officials are accused of running a systematic program of enforced disappearances, according to a preliminary report by a government inquiry. The report alleges thousands of victims, mostly political opponents and dissidents, were abducted and held in secret prisons during Hasina’s 15-year ...
The US has returned two Malaysian nationals to Kuala Lumpur after holding them for 18 years at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Malaysian Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail confirmed Malaysia had accepted the detainees and facilitated their return to the country According to the New Straits Times, Mohamad Farik Amin, 48, ...
Israel has attacked the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, disabling its only intensive care unit (ICU), according to hospital Director Hussam Abu Safiya. The attack, which caused a fire, followed heavy bombardment of nearby homes. This ICU was the sole specialized care unit in northern Gaza, a region under daily attack since Israel’s Octo...
Israel has escalated its military campaign, launching attacks across Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, and Syria this week. In Gaza, Israeli airstrikes killed 32 Palestinians in the past 24 hours, including children and a doctor, in the besieged north. Fourteen of the victims were women and children, as residential areas in Jabalia were devastated. Simult...
WASHINGTON (AA) – California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared Wednesday that an outbreak of the H5N1 bird flu virus within the state’s dairy cattle constitutes an emergency. Bird flu has been detected in cattle in 16 states after it was first identified in stocks in Texas and Kansas in March this year. While no person-to-person transmiss...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel launched deadly airstrikes on power plants, a port, and an oil facility in Yemen that left nine people killed, marking an escalation in its conflict with Houthi fighters, reports said Thursday. Houthi-aligned TV channel Al-Masirah reported that the Israeli raids on Al-Hudaydah left nine people killed and three others...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 52 people were killed and 56 others injured in two separate traffic accidents in Afghanistan, officials of the interim Taliban administration said on Thursday. The accidents on Wednesday evening took place along the Kabul-Kandahar highway in the southeastern Ghazni province. Mullah Hamidullah Nisar, a Taliban spokesman...
HOUSTON, United States (AA) – Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are urging Republicans in Congress to vote against a bipartisan measure that would prevent a government shutdown at the end of the week, media outlets reported Wednesday. The continuing resolution (CR) to fund the federal government through March 14 was agreed to late Tuesday by...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Wednesday that Israel could face a prolonged insurgency in Gaza if it does not shift from military operations to a political strategy. Speaking at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City, Blinken said Israel, from a military perspective, accomplished “significant and im...
HAMILTON, Canada (AA) – A report released Wednesday revealed a dramatic rise in Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism in Canada amid Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Titled “Islamophobia on the rise: Taking action, confronting hate and protecting civil liberties together,” it was published by Canada’s Standing Commit...
