5 newborn babies freeze to death in Gaza
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Oklahoma on Wednesday became the first state in the U.S. to enact a total ban on abortion after Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt signed a bill that outlaws the procedure at fertilization and deputizes private citizens to enforce the prohibition. Modeled after Texas’ similarly draconian ban, the Oklahoma measure is one of several increasingly ...
Following the latest school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Democratic lawmakers are highlighting recent data showing firearms are now the leading cause of death among U.S. children as evidence of the fatal consequences of Republican opposition to gun control legislation. “This is a choice,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) tweeted Wednes...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel reportedly told the US that it was behind the killing of an officer of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in the capital Tehran this week, according to The New York Times. Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodayee was shot dead outside his Tehran home on Sunday by two gunmen on a motorcycle. […]
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisian President Kais Saied on Wednesday evening issued a decree to hold a referendum on a new constitution on July 25. The official gazette said that polling will start at 6 a.m. and end at 10 p.m. on July 25. For Tunisians living abroad, voting will be held between July 23 […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said Thursday Tehran is committed to reaching a deal during the Vienna nuclear talks, but that US interests and foreign policy have been “taken hostage” by Israel. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he accused the Biden administration of ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday gave a six-day deadline to the government to announce early elections. Khan arrived in Islamabad late on Wednesday night after an hours-long journey, and facing huge resistance from police. His supporters reached D-Chowk near parliament ahead of Khan’s a...
KYIV, Ukraine – Four more children were killed in Russian attacks in Ukraine over the past day, raising the war count to 238, Ukrainian authorities have said. An 11-year-old girl was fatally injured in Kharkiv, while three children aged 14, 15 and 17 were killed in Mariupol, according to the office of Ukraine’s prosecutor general. […]...
Kabul, Afghanistan – (AFP): Seconds before he presents a news bulletin, Afghan television anchor Nisar Nabil puts on a black mask as a symbolic protest against the Taliban authorities for ordering women presenters to cover their faces on air. Since seizing power last year, the Taliban have imposed a slew of restrictions on women and [&he...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Eleven newborn babies died in a fire in the neonatal unit of a hospital in the western Senegalese city of Tivaouane, the country’s president said late Wednesday. “I have just learned with pain and dismay about the deaths of 11 newborn babies in the fire that occurred in the neonatal department […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libyan Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh on Wednesday suggested holding parliamentary elections at the end of 2022 and to start preparations for polls in June. “After the parliamentary elections are held and the new government is formed, I will not stay in office even for a minute,” said Dbeibeh in a […]
