WASHINGTON (AA) – Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino on Sunday hosted US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in Panama City and said his country’s “sovereignty is not in question” amid President Donald Trump’s demand to take control of the Panama Canal. “Panama’s sovereignty is not in question, and I...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Australian government announced Monday that it has imposed sanctions on the white supremacist terrorist network Terrorgram. Foreign Minister Penny Wong released a statement concerning the online network, which promotes white supremacy and racially motivated violence, local broadcaster SBS News reported. It ma...
ISTANBUL/MANBIJ, Syria (AA) – At least 14 people were killed and 15 others injured in an attack in the Manbij district of Syria’s Aleppo province on Monday, local sources said. A bomb-laden vehicle exploded at the southern entrance of Manbij, which is under the control of the Syrian National Army (SNA). No group immediately claimed...
ISTANBUL (AA) – US President Donald Trump announced Sunday that his administration is considering imposing tariffs on the European Union and warned Canada and Mexico over trade imbalances and immigration policies. Speaking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, Trump criticized longstanding trade practices and vowed to take acti...
LOS ANGELES/ISTANBUL (AA) – Thousands of protesters gathered in Los Angeles on Sunday to denounce the Trump administration’s measures to combat irregular migration, including deportation operations and stricter border policies. The demonstration, held at the historic Mexican marketplace, saw participants march onto the 101 Freeway, tempo...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) announced Sunday that investigators have recovered the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and enhanced ground proximity warning system (EGPWS) of a medical transport jet that crashed shortly after takeoff in Philadelphia late last week. The CVR, found at a depth of 8 feet (2.4 ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Donald Trump said Sunday that he is cutting future funding to South Africa over alleged land confiscation and mistreatment of “certain classes of people.” “South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY. It is a bad situation that the Radical Left Media d...
ANKARA (AA) – Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, has handed over three Israeli captives in two locations in the Gaza Strip to the International Committee of the Red Cross as part of the ongoing prisoner exchange deal. According to a media correspondent, two Israeli captives – Ofer Calderon and Yarden Bibas – were [&...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Thirty-two Palestinians were released from Israeli jails on Saturday as part of the fourth batch of the prisoner swap deal between Israel and Hamas. The freed prisoners were handed over to the International Red Cross from the Ofer Prison facility near Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, in line with […...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hamas has slammed the US statements on displacing Palestinians from Gaza as “absurd and meaningless.” In a statement, Sami Abu Zuhri, a senior Hamas leader, said the “plans to displace Palestinians from Gaza are absurd and meaningless,” stressing: “What the Israeli occupation failed to achiev...
