Negotiators hashing out a revived Iran nuclear deal said Monday they believe they’re close to reaching an agreement to impose limits on Tehran’s uranium enrichment, a promising development that came over four years after then-U.S. President Donald Trump unilaterally abrogated the landmark accord. An unnamed senior official at the M...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina marked on Monday the 97th birth anniversary of Alija Izetbegovic, the country’s first president and a pivotal figure in the troubled history of the Balkans. Izetbegovic — a politician, writer, and lawyer — who came to international prominence during the country’s bitt...
Amid widespread applause Sunday for U.S. Senate Democrats’ long-awaited passage of a budget reconciliation package, Indigenous and conservationist leaders declared that they were “deeply disappointed” in lawmakers’ refusal to restore protections to a key region of Alaska. Unlike the Build Back Better Act approved by Hou...
Israeli attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip killed dozens of Palestinians and wounded hundreds of civilians over the weekend, Palestinian officials said as Israel and the militant resistance group Islamic Jihad declared a truce late Sunday night. The Palestinian Ministry of Health said Sunday that so far 44 people, including at least 15 childre...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Union welcomed on Monday the truce between Israel and the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad following three days of Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip. “The European Union welcomes the announced cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, which should bring an end to the violence in and around Gaza,” t...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian officials on Monday called for rebuilding Gaza and ending Israel’s 15-year-long blockade. The call came one day after an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire came into force to end three days of Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and retaliatory rocket fire. At least 45 Palestinians were killed and over 360 others injur...
The murders of four Muslim men of South Asian descent in Albuquerque, New Mexico in recent months—with the latest killing taking place Friday night—have horrified the local community, fueling fears of a serial killer targeting people on the basis of their religion and race. Following their discovery of 25-year-old Naeem Hussain late Friday, Al...
ANKARA (AA) – It was 1971 when Geraldine Lee Shingoose, a survivor from Canada’s controversial Muscowequan residential school, decided she was not going back after experiencing horrific abuses. Shingoose remembers the trauma suffered at the residential school like it was yesterday. Set up by the Canadian government beginning in the...
ANKARA (AA) – The Turkish president on Monday hinted at a possible new cross-border operation to clear the PKK organization from its border with Syria. “We will continue our fight against terrorism. Our decision to establish a 30-kilometre-deep secure line along our southern border is permanent,” Recep Tayyip Erdogan said dur...
LONDON, (AA) – Over 600 children — 58% of them Black — were subjected to “intrusive and traumatic” strip searches by the UK’s Metropolitan Police over a period of two years, a report from the Children’s Commissioner of England revealed on Monday. From 2018 to 2020, police stopped and conducted strip searches on 65...
