ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye did not carry out any attack against civilians in northern Iraq’s Duhok province, the country’s foreign minister has stated. “According to information we received from the Turkish Armed Forces, we did not carry out any attack on civilians,” Mevlut Cavusoglu has said. Cavusoglu’s remarks came ...
Dozens of House Democrats joined nearly all of their Republican colleagues on Wednesday to vote down an amendment from Rep. Rashida Tlaib that would have made it easier for Cuba to import food grown by U.S. farmers. Tlaib’s (D-Mich.) amendment to H.R. 8294, which funds the Treasury Department and its Office of Foreign Assets Control, wou...
Congressional progressives have urged top Biden administration officials to end the transfer of military weapons to local law enforcement agencies under a program that critics say disproportionately harms communities of color. In a letter led by Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.), Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), and Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), the 22...
The Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General has opened a criminal investigation into the Secret Service’s destruction of text messages sent the day of and before the January 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol. “This is to notify you that the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General has an ong...
In what one immigration campaigner blasted as “a radical, unprecedented decision,” the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday blocked the Biden administration from resuming a policy limiting migrant deportations. In a 5-4 vote, the court rejected an emergency appeal from the administration and upheld an order from a Texas judge compelling ...
Fifty House Democrats on Thursday called on the Biden administration to declare a public health emergency and boost vaccination efforts in response to the nation’s rising Monkeypox cases. This year, have been more than 15,500 confirmed cases in 72 countries—66 of which have not historically reported monkeypox—the CDC said Wednesday. The ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s cabinet on Thursday approved a trade deal recently agreed with Türkiye, paving the way for its formalization in the coming months. The Trade in Goods Agreement was unveiled during Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s trip to Ankara in June. Under the deal, Türkiye will provide concessions to Pakistan on 261 tariff lines,...
BEIRUT (AA) – A father and his three sons have been arrested in Lebanon over the death of a teenage Syrian boy, state media reported on Thursday. All four are Lebanese nationals and were arrested in Sarafand, a town in the southern Sidon region, according to the official National News Agency. The 14-year-old Syrian boy, […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The chief of India’s Border Security Force claimed on Thursday that Bangladeshis killed along the border were criminals, ignoring his government’s commitment not to use lethal weapons during cross-border movements. Pankaj Kumar Singh, the force’s director general, made the remarks at a press conferenc...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Three Syrian regime policemen were killed and two others wounded on Thursday in an attack targeting their patrol in the southwestern governorate of Daraa, according to the regime’s news agency, SANA. “An armed group attacked a police patrol with light weapons, followed by the explosion of an explosive device, ...
