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Pretoria, South Africa – (AFP): Hundreds of protesters from a radical leftist party in South Africa marched Wednesday on the French embassy in Pretoria to demand that France leave Africa. Chanting “Fuck off, France” and dressed in their trademark red T-shirts and caps, the Economic Freedom Fighters carried placards reading &#...
Banjul, Gambia – (AFP): The Gambian government said Wednesday it will prosecute former dictator Yahya Jammeh for murder, rape, torture and other alleged crimes committed under his more than 20-year rule. The Ministry of Justice said it accepted all but two of the 265 recommendations made by a commission that probed alleged crimes committ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US sharply denounced North Korea on Wednesday after Pyongyang carried out a series of ballistic missile tests overnight, calling them a threat to security in the region and beyond. State Department spokesman Ned Price emphasized that the tests are in violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions, which prohi...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Wednesday with the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Hissein Brahim Taha, on the sidelines of the inaugural US-OIC Strategic Dialogue, according to the State Department. “Secretary Blinken thanked Secretary General Taha for the OIC’s sustai...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud held a telephone conversation Wednesday with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and thanked Washington for its “continued” support, according to a statement by the Somali president’s office. “He also reiterated his government’s commitment to furthe...
PARIS (AA) – A French court has suspended a decision by the Grenoble Municipal Council to allow Muslim women to wear the burkini, a full body swimming costume, in the city’s public pools. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin commended the administrative tribunal’s decision on Twitter. “Excellent news: following our appeal, the administrativ...
BEIRUT, Lebanon – Israeli forces have fired five teargas canisters toward the town of Al-Adaysah in southern Lebanon. Witnesses said Lebanese marking the anniversary of the Israeli troop pullout from southern Lebanon hurled rocks at a border fence with Israel. The National News Agency said Israeli forces fired teargas canisters at the ce...
Niamey, Niger- AFP An increase in suspected militant attacks in western Niger has forced more and more people to flee their homes, according to the UN humanitarian agency. “Forced displacement has intensified over the first five months of 2022 because of escalating violence by non-state actors who attack civilians and security forces,...
ISTANBUL – China has said its joint military exercises around Taiwan were intended as a “stern warning” against “collusion activities” between the US and Taipei. “The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) recently organized joint combat-readiness patrols and real combat training exercises involving multiple services and arms in the waters and...
Sanliurfa, Turkey- AFP Hundreds of thousands of refugees are stranded in Turkey’s Sanliurfa province, which shares a long border with Syria. Civil war in Syria is estimated to have killed nearly half a million people and displaced millions since it began with a brutal crackdown on anti-government protests in 2011. A new wave of economic ...
