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GENEVA – More than 250 cases of monkeypox from 16 countries have been officially reported, but the disease can be contained, an expert from the World Health Organization said. Dr. Rosamund Lewis, the head of the Smallpox Secretariat of the WHO Emergencies Program, told journalists at a UN press conference that monkeypox’s risk to t...
STOCKHOLM – Negotiations with Turkiye on Sweden’s membership to NATO will take some more time, the Swedish prime minister has said. Magdalena Andersson said that her meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was “good and positive.” “Sweden and Finland will continue bilateral and tripartite negotiations with Turkiye in the near...
Democratic leaders of three U.S. congressional caucuses and a task force on Tuesday sent a letter urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to swiftly bring a bill that would expand and strengthen Social Security to the floor for a vote. The chairs of the Congressional Tri-Caucus—made up of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), Cong...
Exactly two years after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, President Joe Biden Wednesday is expected to unveil an executive order aimed at reforming federal policing standards and pushing state and local law enforcement agencies to improve their policies as well. Civil rights groups on Tuesday expressed cautious optimism regard...
Progressives in Congress responded to a deadly mass shooting at a Texas elementary school on Tuesday with demands for swift action to reduce gun violence. The massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde left at least 19 children, two adults, and the gunman dead—and came just 10 days after a mass shooting at a supermarket in Buffalo sparked si...
A South Texas town is reeling Tuesday after at least 21 people—including 19 students and two adults—were killed and an unknown number of others wounded in a mass shooting by a lone gunman at a local elementary school. “They failed our kids again,” Fred Guttenberg, father of Parkland school shooting victim Jaime Guttenberg, said dur...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye said on Tuesday that it would host consultations on the NATO membership applications of Sweden and Finland. The Turkish delegation at the meeting, set to be held on Wednesday in the capital Ankara, will be headed by presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin and Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal, said a statement by [&he...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye will continue to stand by the Palestinian people for independent and sovereign Palestine, the country’s foreign minister said on Tuesday. Speaking at a joint news conference with his Palestinian counterpart Riyad al-Maliki in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Mevlut Cavusoglu said Turkiye will pursue normalized ...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The Afghan Taliban interim government on Tuesday signed a deal to hand over the country’s four key airports to a state-run United Arab Emirates company. Under the deal, the control and management of four international airports – Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, and Mazar-e-Sharif – will be handed over to the UAE aviation company,...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco and Israel on Tuesday signed 13 memorandums of understanding (MoUs) in the field of innovation and high-tech industry. The deals are the latest in efforts of Rabat and Tel Aviv to boost their relations since the normalization of their ties in late 2020. The MoUs were signed during a 3-day […]
