ANKARA/ISTANBUL (AA) – Dozens of patients were evacuated after a fire erupted at a Greek hospital in Istanbul. Some 80 patients, mostly elderly people, in Balikli Greek Hospital were shifted to nearby medical facilities as flames engulfed the roof of the historic building in the Zeytinburnu district. The cause is still unknown and no one [&hel...
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema announced late Thursday that she has agreed to back Democrats’ new reconciliation bill, but only after securing changes to a proposed levy on major corporations and forcing the removal of a provision targeting a notorious tax loophole exploited by rich investors. In a statement, Sinema (D-Ariz.) said that she and the ...
Environmentalists celebrated Thursday after a federal court rejected a pair of U.S. Bureau of Land Management coal mining plans that were drawn up during the Trump presidency and defended in legal proceedings by the Biden administration. “This ruling is a shameful confirmation that the Biden administration has no real interest in defendi...
Following a Russian court’s announcement of a guilty verdict in the case of U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner on Thursday, calls mounted for President Joe Biden to take any necessary steps to help free the Women’s National Basketball Association player. Griner’s attorneys said they would “certainly file an appealR...
Following growing activist pressure and criticism, the Biden administration on Thursday declared monkeypox a national public health emergency, a move that empowers federal agencies to better direct resources toward combating an outbreak that’s infected thousands of Americans. Speaking to reporters at an afternoon press briefing, U.S. Hea...
Stressing the need for a “new economic playbook” that prioritizes human needs over corporate greed, U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman on Thursday introduced proposed legislation that would tackle excessive profiteering with targeted price controls. “In my district and across the country, people simply cannot afford to live,” the ...
Following two years of racial justice activism, the U.S. government on Thursday charged four current and former Louisville, Kentucky officers for alleged federal crimes related to the March 2020 killing of Breonna Taylor, a 26-year-old unarmed Black woman who was shot dead in her own home during a botched police raid. Detective Joshua Jaynes, ...
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): Paul and Tracy Naggear have lived in grief since the massive explosion that tore through the Lebanese capital in 2020, killing their three-year-old daughter, and their anger boils over the stalled investigation. The August 4 mega-blast, blamed on a fire that ignited tonnes of ammonium nitrate fertiliser haphazardly store...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – The Burkinabe army acknowledged on Wednesday that several civilians were killed in airstrikes, which it called “unfortunate and unintentional,” and said the collateral damage occurred during military operations against suspected terrorist groups in the country’s east on Monday. The Burkina Faso Ar...
ATHENS (AA) – The office of elected Muslim mufti in a region of Greece with a large minority Muslim Turkish population has cried foul at a move said to violate the minority’s rights guaranteed by treaty. “According to the Treaty of Lausanne, while the Turkish minority in Western Thrace has the right to elect their […]
