Netanyahu rejects 2nd phase of Gaza ceasefire
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MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday arrived in Tajikistan’s capital Dushanbe, his first foreign visit since the start of a “special military operation” in Ukraine. Opening the meeting, Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon said Moscow and Dushanbe are allies and have a strategic partnership. “Today...
NEW DELHI (AA) – At least 19 people have died after a residential building in India’s financial capital Mumbai collapsed overnight, officials said on Tuesday. Rescuers worked through heavy rain to scour through the rubble of the four-story building in Mumbai’s central Kurla area. Civic body BMC said 14 more people were injured in the […...
MADRID (AA) – Four-way talks between Türkiye, NATO, Finland and Sweden ended Tuesday on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Madrid. Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto and Sweden’s Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson discussed the Nordic coun...
The global aid group Oxfam International slammed the G7 on Tuesday for failing to respond anywhere near adequately to a global food crisis that has pushed as many as 323 million people worldwide to the brink of starvation. The wealthy Group of Seven countries—the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, and Japan—ackn...
Lawmakers and rights advocates mourned the loss of life and decried the United States’ inhumane immigration system late Monday after an abandoned tractor-trailer rig containing at least 50 dead people and 16 survivors—including four children—was discovered in San Antonio, Texas. Local authorities said it appears that the rig, which was f...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Residents in remote areas of Bangladesh have started an intense struggle for potable water because of discriminatory budget allocation for those areas and an unrelenting destruction of the ecology — especially in hilly areas. Just 5.44% of the Annual Development Program was allocated for the Water, S...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least one person was killed and five others wounded when a knife-wielding man stabbed several people at an asylum shelter in southern Germany, local media reported on Monday. According to state broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW), the attacker knocked on the doors at the facility in Kressbronn on Lake Constance late Sunday [&hel...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – A coalition of five Tunisian parties has condemned attacks on their supporters during a protest against a planned constitutional referendum amid a deep political crisis in the North African country. Tunisian President Kais Saied plans to hold a national referendum on an amended version of the country’s constitution on Jul...
ANKARA (AA) – As the EU considers enlargement, its foreign policy chief has suggested that the bloc reduce the scope of unanimity rule in foreign policy and reform its decision-making process through a “qualified majority vote.” Josep Borrell in a blog post on Monday said EU enlargement is back high on the agenda after the […]
ANKARA (AA) – Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met on Monday with Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha to discuss the bloc’s vision to promote Islamic solidarity and joint Islamic action. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the 11th session of the Islamic Conference of Tourism Ministers ...
