ANKARA (AA) – Russia has said that at least 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 75 others wounded in an overnight attack by Ukraine at a pre-trial detention center in the Russia-controlled territory of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. A majority of those killed were captured at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol city, […]
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran has warned the interim Taliban government in Kabul that failure to resolve the protracted dispute over shared water resources could affect cooperation between the two neighbors. In a phone call with his Afghan counterpart Amir Khan Muttaqi, Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian called for an “expeditious and serio...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Al-Shabaab militants launched a fresh attack on a Somali town located near the border with Ethiopia on Friday. The attacks took place in the town of Aato in Bokol region near Ethiopia’s Somali region, where Liyu police, a counterinsurgency force, operates. Al-Shabaab rebels later claimed responsibility for...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China’s President Xi Jinping has said that Beijing will strengthen cooperation with Iran. “China is willing to strengthen cooperation with Iran within Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and other frameworks,” Xi told his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi in a phone call. The phone call was held while the SCO is holding a s...
ANKARA (AA) – The European Union’s borders must remain open to asylum seekers, Germany’s foreign minister said in Greece on Friday, a pointed remark that increases pressure on Athens over its widely criticized policy of deadly and illegal migrant pushbacks. Annalena Baerbock’s remarks came at a joint press conference with her Greek counterpart...
As U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi departs Friday for an Asian trip that may include a stop in Taiwan, anti-war voices are sounding the alarm over a visit they say would needlessly provoke China during a time of already heightened global tensions from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. CodePink’s Marcy Winograd told Common Dreams that &...
Advocates for children and parents on Friday highlighted what they say is a major oversight in the Inflation Reduction Act, the climate and tax bill introduced this week after months of negotiations between Sen. Joe Manchin and Democratic leaders, as the package included no funding to help shore up struggling child care facilities across the U...
As fossil fuel giants this week reported record profits for the second quarter, an analysis out Friday highlighted how eight oil companies have raked in nearly $52 billion over the past three months “while Americans continue to struggle at the pump.” The review by the watchdog group Accountable.US revealed that from April through J...
U.S. Rep. Chip Roy’s introduction Friday of a bill to make federal bureaucratic personnel at-will employees further stoked fears that marginalized workers will suffer discriminatory firings under a future Republican administration or even GOP-controlled Congress. The Public Service Reform Act “will empower federal agencies to swift...
TEHRAN (AA) – The number of casualties from floods caused by heavy rains in villages around Iran’s capital Tehran has risen to 18, officials said Friday. Hasan Nami, head of the National Crisis Center, said: “One person died due to the flood in the village of Veskare, east of Tehran, and 14 vehicles were submerged.” […]
