Critics of U.S. imperialism sounded the alarm Monday after President Joe Biden said that he would use military force in response to a Chinese invasion of Taiwan. “That’s the commitment we made,” Biden said at a press conference held jointly with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida during a visit to Tokyo, abandoning the ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – An Israeli court on Sunday sentenced six Palestinian detainees to five years in prison for tunneling out of a maximum-security jail facility last year. The court also slapped the six prisoners with a fine of 5,000 shekels ($1,500), the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)-run Commission for Detainees and Ex-Detain...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians have condemned a US decision to remove radical Jewish group Kach from the list of terror organizations. On Friday, the US Department of State removed five extremist groups from its list of foreign terrorist organizations, including Kach movement. In a statement, the Ramallah-based Palestinian Authority ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – US President Joe Biden on Sunday said “everybody should be concerned” about monkeypox. “They (health advisers) haven’t told me the level of exposure yet, but it is something that everybody should be concerned about. “We’re working on it hard to figure out what we do and what vaccine, if any, may be [&hel...
Sylhet, Bangladesh Heavy rains have caused widespread flooding in parts of Bangladesh and India, leaving millions stranded and at least 57 dead. In Bangladesh, about two million people have been marooned by the worst floods in the country’s northeast for nearly two decades. At least 100 villages at Zakiganj were inundated after floodwate...
Maarab, Lebanon – Lebanon’s hijacked sovereignty must be restored after an election denied the powerful resistance movement Hezbollah a parliamentary majority, said Lebanese Christian leader Samir Geagea. “All strategic decision-making should return to the Lebanese state… security and military matters should be handled ...
NAIROBI, Kenya – (AA): Leading media outlets, mainly in North America and Europe, are using images of African negroid people alongside stories of the monkeypox outbreak, which has offended many Africans. The Foreign Press Association, Africa (FPAA), a Pan African non-profit membership organization of journalists covering Africa for the i...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 30 terrorists were killed in an attack on a military detachment in northcentral Burkina Faso on Saturday, according to the army. The army said five soldiers were killed and 10 others injured during the clash. The military detachment of Bourzanga in Bam province, Center-North Region, “vigorously retaliated” ...
Doha, Qatar While Qatar is known for its scorching heat, some fans will still take a sweater to World Cup stadiums because of the state-of-the-art air conditioning that its mastermind says will become the norm for mega sports events. Saud Abdulaziz Abdul Ghani, nicknamed “Dr Cool”, worked for 13 years on the solar-powered cooling s...
KARACHI, Pakistan – Turkiye will provide all support needed to strengthen Pakistan’s military infrastructure, the Turkish president has said. In a video message sent to the launching ceremony of the third vessel of the MILGEM Ada class corvettes – a joint venture of Turkiye and Pakistan- Recep Tayyip Erdogan said: “The production process...
