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PARIS – A harmless desire to swim in the public pools with a full-body costume by a group of Muslim women in the southeastern Grenoble city of France has triggered a national outrage this summer. A French court on Wednesday May 25 suspended the decision by the Grenoble municipal council to authorize the long costume […]
ANKARA – The US has imposed sanctions on an international network accused of oil smuggling and money laundering that it said was led by officials of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force and supported by Russia. The network has “facilitated the sale of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Iranian oil” for the […...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia’s National Drought Relief Committee has said 6.9 million people in the country are facing severe water shortages and food insecurity as the worst droughts in decades have escalated in the region. The drought has affected 90% of the country’s landmass and 66 districts across the county. Abdirahman ...
KIGALI, Rwanda – Bakers in Burkina Faso downed their shutters nationwide on Thursday in protest against the government’s refusal to let them increase the price of bread to match the rising wheat prices. The strike came after weeks of discussions between the umbrella federation of owners of bakeries and confectioneries and the Trade Ministry ov...
ANKARA – The Turkish and French presidents have discussed Sweden’s and Finland’s bids to join NATO, according to Turkiye’s Communication Directorate. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that Sweden’s and Finland’s contacts with individuals and institutions affiliated wi...
TEHRAN, Iran – The Iranian Foreign Ministry summoned the Greek charge d’affaires in Tehran to protest the seizure of an Iranian-flagged ship in Greece’s territorial waters. The ministry described the seizure as “an example of international banditry.” Earlier, Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO) issued a statement, describing the...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has appointed a new secretary for the executive committee of the umbrella Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Hussein al-Sheikh was named Secretary of the PLO Executive Committee. Al-Sheikh, who is also a member of the PLO’s Central Committee and Fatah group, was born in the West B...
WASHINGTON – The prospects for reviving the 2015 nuclear deal that world powers struck with Iran are exceedingly dim, President Joe Biden’s chief envoy for the talks has said amid an ongoing diplomatic impasse. “Of course, as I speak to you, we do not have a deal and prospects for reaching one are tenuous, at […]
Dubai, United Arab Emirates – As the Ukraine war drags on, more and more Russian professionals are moving to Dubai — the business-friendly Gulf emirate that offers an escape from the impact of Western sanctions. Entrepreneurs, lawyers and art dealers are among those flocking to the financial hub in the oil-rich United Arab Emirates...
The heads of the two largest U.S. teachers’ unions on Thursday roundly rejected renewed calls by Republican politicians—some of them funded by the firearms industry lobby—to arm educators following the massacre of more than 20 children and staff at a Texas elementary school. “Teachers should be teaching, not acting as armed securit...
