The suspect in a Munich car-ramming attack had terror motives but no links to extremist networks, German authorities said. The 24-year-old Afghan, who arrived in Germany as an asylum-seeker in 2016, drove his Mini Cooper into a labour union protest on Thursday, injuring 36 people. Two victims remain in critical condition. Police arrested him a...
A Bangladeshi political party has filed a case against former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, accusing her of being responsible for 848 deaths during last year’s anti-government protests. The Bangladesh Nationalist Party, led by former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, filed the case with the International Crimes Tribunal. Hasina fled to India on Aug....
Police in the capital of Indian-occupied Kashmir, Srinagar, have seized 668 books linked to Jamaat-e-Islami. The Islamist organization was banned by India in the region five years ago. The books, written by or about thinker Abul Ala Maududi, the group’s founder, were confiscated in a raid on major bookstores. Authorities said legal actio...
A new study reveals that hate speech on X surged by 50% in the months following Elon Musk’s takeover of the social media platform. Research published in PLOS One, a peer-reviewed open-access mega journal by the Public Library of Science, contradicts X’s claims that exposure to hate speech had decreased. The study tracked posts from […]...
The White House is facing criticism for allegedly retaliating against America’s leading news agency, the Associated Press or AP over its reporting. AP claims its reporters were barred from events after refusing to use President Donald Trump’s new name for the Gulf of Mexico — the “Gulf of America.” The agency’s Executive Editor Julie Pac...
ISTANBUL (AA) — Elon Musk discussed cutting government spending by abolishing entire federal agencies and reshaping the Trump administration’s priorities during a video call at the World Governments Summit in Dubai. Musk outlined key goals for the unofficial Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), which he heads, saying: “We want to ...
Eight former U.S. inspectors general have sued the Trump administration over their sudden firings. The case comes after USAID Inspector General Paul Martin was fired just a day after releasing a critical report on Trump’s foreign aid policies. The inspectors general say the dismissals violate federal laws protecting watchdogs from political in...
LONDON (AA) — British Premier Keir Starmer has said a judge made the wrong decision in allowing a Palestinian family from Gaza to settle in the UK under a visa scheme originally designed for Ukrainian refugees. The family of six was granted the right to join their brother in the UK after an immigration judge […]
ISTANBUL (AA) — The bilateral trade volume between Türkiye and Pakistan reached its highest level in 2024, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced on his trip to close South Asian ally Pakistan. The trade volume rose by nearly 30% year-on-year in 2024 to reach $1.4 billion. “However, we are still far behind our trade [&helli...
The State Department has quietly changed a contract after media scrutiny revealed a planned $400 million deal for Tesla. The company is run by Elon Musk, who is currently head of President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency. He donated heavily to support Trump’s presidential campaign last year. Initially, the document — dated ...
