Multiple news reports revealed Monday that two top aides to former Vice President Mike Pence recently were subpoenaed and appeared before the federal grand jury probing the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Marc Short, who served as Pence’s chief of staff, “was caught by an ABC News camera departing D.C. District Court on...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Monday started an official visit to Morocco during which he is set to sign a memorandum of legal cooperation between the two countries. Israeli Ambassador to Morocco David Govrin tweeted: “We welcome Mr. Sa’ar, on his first official visit to Morocco, at the invit...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Three civilians were killed and three people injured during demonstrations in northern Mali against two politico-armed movements, the United Nations Multidimensional Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) said Monday. Demonstrations Saturday in the town of Menaka against the demonstrators who threw stones at the ...
With the Federal Reserve widely expected to enact another large interest rate hike at its policy meeting later this week, Sen. Elizabeth Warren took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal on Sunday to warn that the central bank’s approach to tackling inflation “risks triggering a devastating recession” without directly addre...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisians began voting Monday in a referendum on a new constitution put forward by President Kais Saied. Polling stations opened at 6 a.m. local time (0500GMT). According to the Independent High Authority for Elections, over 9 million people are expected to take part in the referendum. Meanwhile, Saied accused parti...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh has welcomed a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that rejected preliminary objections of Myanmar and cleared the way for a Rohingya genocide case filed by The Gambia to proceed. The ruling rejected the four preliminary objections on legal and procedural grounds, according to a statemen...
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – The former head of Nigeria’s Treasury was remanded Friday for his alleged involvement in diverting more than 109 billion Nigerian nairas ($262 million). Justice Adeyemi Ajayi gave the order after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) indicted Ahmad Idris on a 14-count charge including conspiracy, crimin...
LONDON (AA) – Lisa Smith, a former soldier in the Irish Defense Forces, was jailed for 15 months on Friday for being a member of ISIS. Smith, 40, was found guilty in May by a non-jury Special Criminal Court in the Irish capital Dublin. She, however, was acquitted of a separate charge of financing terrorism. […]
TEHRAN (AA) – At least 20 people were killed and three others went missing in flash floods caused by heavy rains in Iran’s southern Fars province, state media said on Saturday. Khalil Abdollahi, head of the province’s crisis management department, said heavy rains near Soltan Shahbaz village in the city of Estahban led to the [&hel...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – A group affiliated with al-Qaeda and ISIS claimed responsibility Saturday for two recent attacks in Mali, purportedly in response to Mali’s collaboration with mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner Group. An attack on a military base near Mali’s capital Bamako left a soldier dead on Friday. Seven attackers were shot dead ...
