KIGALI, Rwanda – At least 14 civilians were killed in an overnight attack on a camp for internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Ituri province. Most of the victims were beheaded with machetes, according to the Kivu Security Tracker. It blamed the attack on the Lodda camp, located near the town […]
Gaza City, Palestinian Territories- A year after its devastating war with Israel, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas is faced with a dilemma: to keep up the resistance struggle or to lay low and reconstruct the Gaza Strip? On May 10, 2021, the storming of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound by Israeli forces led to violent clashes […]
PARIS – France’s junior minister for Europe has asserted that Ukraine will have to be included in the European family by undertaking fundamental reforms of the European Union as French President Emmanuel Macron made a bid for a “parallel European community.” Clement Beaune, who holds the office of the secretary of state for Europea...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir – Sana Irshad Mattoo, 28, a Kashmiri woman photographer, has been awarded this year’s Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for her coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Besides Mattoo, who contributes to Reuters as a multimedia journalist, three Reuters photojournalists- Adnan Abidi, Amit Dave and late Danish Si...
BRUSSELS – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell pledged an extra €1 billion ($1.06 billion) support for the Syrian people for this year at the Brussels Syria Conference. “I am pleased to announce an additional €1 billion aid for the calendar year of 2022,” Borrell said at his opening speech at the 6th Brussels conference […]...
JERUSALEM – US President Joe Biden is considering a visit to occupied East Jerusalem during his upcoming visit to Israel in June, according to an Israeli official. The official said Biden would possibly visit Al Makassed Hospital in the city, although the plans are not yet to be finalized. If confirmed, the visit is likely […]
ANKARA – Russia continues to suffer massive human and material losses in Ukraine, with hundreds of its soldiers killed and more equipment destroyed over the past day, the Ukrainian military has claimed. Since the war began on February 24, about 26,000 Russian troops, including 350 in the past day, have been killed in Ukraine, according [...
ISTANBUL – Palestinian weightlifter Hamada Mohammed has won a gold medal at the IWF Junior World Championships. Mohammed won the top prize in the men’s 102 kg snatch category after lifting 168 kilograms. Having lifted 193 kg in the cIean and jerk, the 20-year-old took home the bronze overall with 361 total points. Uzbek athlete [&h...
On the eve of a key procedural vote on the Women’s Health Protection Act, Sen. Bernie Sanders said in a floor speech Tuesday that the Senate’s Democratic majority must use its power to end the legislative filibuster and codify abortion rights into federal law. Sanders (I-Vt.), the chair of the Senate Budget Committee, acknowledged ...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday added her name to a growing list of progressive politicians and groups endorsing Summer Lee and Nida Allam in their respective May 17 Democratic primary elections for the U.S. House of Representatives. Allam currently serves on the Durham County Board of Commissioners making her the first Muslim woman t...
