HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools has identified at least 53 associated burial sites with 500 deaths reported so far, a number the US government believes could grow exponentially as the research continues. The report by the Interior Department pinpointed more than 400 schools desi...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A colleague of slain Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday about his fellow journalist’s final moments before she was shot while covering an Israeli army raid. Veteran journalist Abu Akleh was among the reporters to rush to the scene in the northern city of Jenin in [&hell...
Employees at two Starbucks locations in Santa Cruz, California won union elections on Wednesday, scoring the rapidly spreading movement’s first victories in the nation’s most populous state even as management intensifies its efforts to stamp out worker organizing. The groundbreaking victories, like many of the Starbucks union’...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has announced that it is seeking an extension of the mandate for its soldiers serving in UN and EU missions in Mali. Government spokesperson Christiane Hoffmann said the government agreed to raise its contingent in the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) peacekeeping mission to a m...
ANKARA (AA) – The killing of prominent Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is a “potential war crime,” a UN official has said. The UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, Francesca Albanese, said in an interview with Anadolu Agency that the crime constitutes a “serious violation of international humanitarian law and is...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Russia’s employment of hypersonic weapons as part of its ongoing military campaign against Ukraine has not fundamentally changed the conflict, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said. Testifying alongside Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, Austin said the Kremlin’s forces have used hypersonics “seve...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia’s Presidential Election Commission has finally concluded the registration of candidates for the May 15 polls. Thirty-nine candidates have registered, including incumbent President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, two former presidents, a former prime minister, a former mayor of Mogadishu, several former minis...
ISTANBUL – The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war is jeopardizing food security in low-income countries, especially in the Middle East and Africa, an expert said. Eren Gunhan Ulusoy, head of the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) Eurasia, said that some countries in Africa are requesting aid as they cannot find sufficient reso...
ANKARA – Turkiye has said that its forces have “neutralized” 10 more PKK fighters in northern Syria. The National Defense Ministry has claimed that these PKK members were plotting to attack the areas of Operation Euphrates Shield and Operation Olive Branch. Turkish authorities use the term “neutralize” to imply the targ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has offered condolences to the family of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed during an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank. Abu Akleh, 51, was shot dead while covering the Israeli raid in the city of Jenin on the morning of Wednesday May 11. […]
