KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan Army divers on Tuesday joined the rescue operation for over two dozen passengers after a boat capsized in the fast-flowing Indus River. The death toll from Monday’s incident jumped to 22 as rescuers fished out one more body from the river, miles away from the accident site, local broadcaster Geo [&...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Raging wildfires continue to devour thousands of hectares of mountain forests in northern Morocco. In a statement, the Ministry of Agriculture said 9,200 hectares of forests have been destroyed by the flames since last week. The statement was issued following a visit by Minister of Agriculture and Maritime Fisheries Moham...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian authorities on Tuesday questioned Ennahda leader Rached Ghannouchi on accusations of money-laundering. Ghannouchi appeared before an anti-terrorism judge to answer questions regarding suspicious financial transactions within the “Namaa Tounes” charity. Dozens of Ennahda supporters rallied outside the courthouse i...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Lebanese security forces raided the central bank in the capital Beirut on Tuesday in search of its governor Riad Salameh. Security forces also searched Salameh’s home north of Beirut but could not find him. The raid came upon a judicial order issued against the governor as part of investigation into accusations […...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia’s breakaway region Somaliland has banned the BBC from operating in its territory, citing the British public broadcaster’s refusal to recognize the territory as a democratic republic. After 31 years of our independence and holding three parliamentary elections with five presidents elected to office, the B...
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday introduced an amendment that would impose restrictions on the billions of dollars in federal subsidies and tax credits that Congress is poised to hand to the profitable U.S. microchip industry, which has been lobbying aggressively for the handouts. Sanders’ proposed changes to the CHIPS Act, which cleared a...
Nearly two dozen congressional Democrats on Tuesday pressured the Biden administration to push for an independent investigation into the June murders of Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira and British journalist Dom Phillips in Brazil’s Javari Valley and to improve U.S. policy related to the region. U.S. Reps. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) and ...
The U.S. National Archives on Tuesday asked the Secret Service to investigate the “potential unauthorized deletion” of agents’ text messages sent the day of and before the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol by supporters of then-President Donald Trump. “If it is determined that any text messages have be...
Several members of Congress were among the demonstrators arrested outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday while protesting right-wing justices’ recent ruling against the constitutional right to abortion. “Today I was arrested in a civil disobedience action at the Supreme Court to protest Roe v. Wade getting overturned and the ass...
The U.S. pharmaceutical industry exercised its virtually unlimited pricing power to hike costs for patients again this month as Senate Democrats made progress toward a limited deal to regulate out-of-control prescription drug prices, which are forcing millions of people to ration their medication or go without it entirely. A new analysis relea...
