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ANKARA (AA) – Three Turkish soldiers were killed by PKK fighters in northern Iraq, Turkiye’s National Defense Ministry alleged on Tuesday. The soldiers were killed while performing their duties as Turkiye launched its latest operation dubbed Claw-Lock in northern Iraq. Four other soldiers were also injured in the attack. Turkiye al...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli army forces on Tuesday demolished a mosque in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian authorities. Israeli forces cited lack of construction permit for razing the mosque in al-Ramadin community near Qalqilya city, the Waqf Ministry said in a statement. Palestinian Waqf Minister Hatem al-Bakri termed ...
Congressional Progressive Caucus Chair Pramila Jayapal hit back Monday after a corporate-funded dark money group mischaracterized the work of the congressional committee probing the January 6, 2021 insurrection as a “partisan exercise.” No Labels—a political advocacy group that funds right-wing Democrats and “moderate” ...
Progressive New York state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi on Tuesday formally announced a primary challenge to U.S. Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney, chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, whose recent decision to run in a safer district and effectively boot out a progressive incumbent sparked Democratic ire. “The Democratic Party sh...
Low-wage workers from three southern states marched and rallied in Memphis on Monday, the final stop made by the revived Poor People’s Campaign before it converges in Washington, D.C. next month. The Mid-South Mobilization Committee, comprised of working people from Tennessee, Arkansas, and Mississippi, led the demonstration, which can b...
The leading professional association of obstetricians and gynecologists on Monday responded to “the anticipated upending of 50 years of well-settled law” regarding abortion care by the U.S. Supreme Court by strengthening its policy on the issue and condemning right-wing legislators who spread misinformation about abortion as they r...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Two pilots were killed when an F-7 fighter jet crashed near Isfahan province in central Iran on Tuesday, according to state media. The incident took place at around 8:10 a.m. local time (0340GMT) when the aircraft, which had taken off from Shahid Babaei Airbase in Isfahan, crashed in Anarak, nearly 200 […]
Bambilor, Senegal – AFP In a serene studio filled with birdsong, Omar Ba takes off his shoes and gets down on his hands and knees. Then the renowned Senegalese artist begins to paint a five-metre-long canvas a deep, dark shade of black. This is how Ba, a rising star in the world of contemporary African […]
Baghdad, Iraq – AFP Iraq closed public buildings and temporarily shut airports Monday as another sandstorm — the ninth since mid-April — hit the country, authorities said. The capital Baghdad was enveloped in a giant dust cloud that left usually traffic-choked streets largely deserted. Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhemi ordere...
Tehran, Iran – AFP Iran will avenge the killing of a Revolutionary Guards colonel who was shot dead in Tehran, President Ebrahim Raisi warned on Monday. Assailants on motorcycles on Sunday hit Colonel Sayyad Khodai with five bullets as he sat in his car outside his Tehran home. Iran blamed “elements linked to the global […]
