DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Rescue workers in Burkina Faso found no survivors in a flooded zinc mine’s rescue chamber after eight miners became stranded 32 days ago due to heavy rains, the government said Tuesday. The miners were not found in the room. Rescue teams had taken a long time to reach the room due […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – Turkiye wants to resolve issues with the US, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday. Speaking in an address at the Turkevi Center in New York, Cavusoglu recalled the “important” meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart Joe Biden in Rome last year. “We have e...
TRIPOLI, Libya (AA) – Libya’s parliament-appointed Prime Minister Fathi Bashagha announced late Tuesday that he will base his government in the city of Sirte as of Wednesday. In a statement from Sirte on clashes that erupted between armed groups after he attempted to enter the capital Tripoli, Bashagha said they believe in the democratic...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia’s new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Tuesday met with his predecessor Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo for the first time since his weekend election in the Horn of African country. Mohamud, who was sworn in after Sunday’s presidential election, is also the first ex-president Somalia has ever returned...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden on Tuesday called the mass shooting at a supermarket in the state of New York “domestic terrorism.” “What happened here is simple straightforward; terrorism, domestic terrorism,” Biden said at a news conference in Buffalo where a gunman killed at least 10 people Saturday in a ...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia has decided to withdraw from the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS), a political forum for regional cooperation with 11 member states including Germany, Finland, and Sweden. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said the organization has been turning into “an anti-Russian tool,” and some discriminator...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, while giving his first interview to the international media, has said that Somalia is facing a security challenge and the country has been struggling to provide security for its citizens. “The most important challenging issue that exists today in Somalia is the s...
PARIS – The decision by another French city to allow women to wear head-to-toe swimwear at public pools – dubbed ‘burkinis’ – has once again reignited the contentious debate over religious clothing in France. Grenoble in southeastern France became the second city in the country to allow the wearing of burkinis – worn by some ...
Critics of U.S. foreign policy on Tuesday reacted to a report that the United States Senate is advancing a draft bill that would grant domestic courts universal jurisdiction to prosecute alleged war criminals by questioning whether the measure would also apply to Americans—who are rarely if ever brought to justice after committing war crimes. ...
WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden will host Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto regarding their bid to join NATO, according to the White House. During the meeting, “the leaders will discuss Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO applications and European security, as well as strengthening ...
