ISTANBUL (AA) – The annual inflation rate in Indonesia was at 4.94% in July, hitting its highest level since November 2015, when it had been 6.25%. According to official figures released on Monday, the rate at which prices went up on a monthly basis was 0.64%. The highest monthly price increase was in the food-beverage-tobacco […]
ANKARA (AA) – On August 1, New Zealand observed the first anniversary of its government’s formal apology over ‘Dawn Raids’ — racist raids on Pacific people in the 1970s. In a statement, Pacific Peoples Minister Aupito William Sio said a major event will be held on August 27 in Auckland. Pacific leaders and communi...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Torrential rains and floods have killed another 24 people across Pakistan and parts of Kashmir administered by Pakistan over the past 24 hours. At least 10 people, including women and children, were killed and several others injured when the roof of a house collapsed in the Rawlakot district of Pakistan-administe...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces detained more than 40 Palestinians, including Jerusalem Governor Adnan Ghaith, in a mass arrest campaign across the occupied West Bank. Ghaith was arrested in an Israeli raid on his home in Silwan neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem, his spokesman Mauruf al-Rifai disclosed. He said Israeli forces d...
ANKARA (AA) – The first ship to leave Ukraine under a historic grain export deal has departed from the port of Odesa for Lebanon, the Turkish National Defense Ministry announced. “The ship is expected to arrive in Istanbul on August 2,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that the vessel would continue on its […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – US mediator Amos Hochstein has voiced hope for reaching an agreement on maritime border demarcation between Lebanon and Israel in the coming weeks. The US envoy held talks in Beirut with Lebanese President Michel, Prime Minister-designate Najib Mikati and Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri. “I remain optimistic that we...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Taiwan this week, U.S. and Taiwanese officials said Monday, despite warnings from China, the Biden administration, and anti-war campaigners. At a Monday press conference in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian said his government “has repeatedly made clear to the U.S. side our s...
Universal healthcare campaigners in California on Monday unveiled a tool they say shows how most working families would save at least hundreds—and likely thousands—of dollars each year if the state implements a Medicare for All-type system. The advocacy group Healthy California Now, together with National Union of Healthcare Workers and Univer...
A coalition of 40 labor and social justice groups on Monday sounded the alarm over anti-worker legislation recently introduced by right-wing Democratic Congressman Henry Cuellar of Texas and two House Republicans. The Worker Power Coalition, which represents 24 million workers, took aim at the “dangerous” Worker Flexibility and Cho...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libya’s High Council of State on Monday re-elected Khaled Al-Mishri as its head for a fifth term. Al-Mishri obtained 65 votes out of 118, while his rival, Al-Ajili Abu Sedil, came second with 50 votes in a second round of voting, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent. Three council members abstained […]
