TUNIS, Tunisia – Tunisia’s powerful UGTT labor union has declared a general strike on June 16 in protest of the government’s refusal to reform public companies. In a statement, the union said the strike was called “over government’s unwillingness to reform public companies.” It said the general strike will cover 159 public institutions i...
BELGRADE, Serbia – Bosnia and Herzegovina marked White Ribbon Day in honor of thousands of innocent civilians killed in the western town of Prijedor in 1992. On May 31, 1992, the Serbian administration in Prijedor ordered the non-Serb population to wear white stripes on their arms when they left their houses- an order followed by […]
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AA): The Turkish national defense minister Hulusi Akar met his UAE counterpart Mohammed Bin Ahmad Al Bowardi in Abu Dhabi and discussed bilateral and regional issues, as well as cooperation in military training and the defense industry. Akar’s visit is the first from a Turkish defense minister to the UAE [&hell...
TRENTON, Canada – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took aim at gun control, including a national freeze on handguns, because it is “the responsible thing to do.” Speaking at a press conference, Trudeau cited the 2017 Quebec mosque shooting where six worshippers were killed and 19 wounded by a lone gunman as an example o...
ANKARA – NATO “will chart the way ahead for the next decade” at its June summit in the Spanish capital Madrid, the alliance’s chief has said. “We will reset our deterrence and defense for a more dangerous world,” Jens Stoltenberg said at a ceremony in Spain marking the 40th anniversary of the country’s accession to […]
Wildlife defenders on Tuesday welcomed a California appeals court ruling affirming that a regulatory agency can classify four types of bumblebees as “fish” under the law in order to consider them for candidacy on the state’s endangered species list, a ruling that paves the way for the protection of other insects including the...
Progressives within and beyond Congress took aim at Sen. Joe Manchin on Tuesday after the West Virginia Democrat infamous for blocking his own party’s priorities took to Twitter to call for lowering prescription drug prices. Sharing a photo with older residents of his state, Manchin said that “by allowing Medicare to negotiate drug...
Warning that the court-ordered redrawing of New York’s congressional map has already left marginalized communities in the state with less representation, grassroots organizer Rana Abdelhamid on Tuesday announced that she was ending her campaign in the state’s 12th District because the new district boundaries cut her off from the co...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Tuesday refused to commit to calm amid Israeli escalation in the occupied East Jerusalem. “Mediators are seeking to get pledges from Hamas on avoiding escalation, but this is rejected,” Hamas spokesman Hazem Qassem told Anadolu Agency. “We can’t speak about calm at a...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libya’s parliament said Tuesday the government it appointed under former Interior Ministry Fathi Bashagha has officially started working from the central city of Sirte. Parliament Speaker Aguila Saleh said Bashagha’s government can’t enter the capital “as Tripoli is under the control of armed groups.” “The government offi...
