ANKARA (AA) – Bangladesh police detained at least 450 Rohingya refugees celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid al-Fitr on a beach in the town of Cox’s Bazar, police said on Thursday. Police spokesperson Rafiqul Islam told media that the refugees were detained as part of “security measures” in the country’s largest resort district. ...
Hundreds of cops across the United States have been taught by individuals who espouse far-right extremist views, according to a new investigation that was published Friday to sound the alarm on a burgeoning and unregulated private training industry. Reuters identified five law enforcement trainers who have been hired by police and sheriffsR...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The central Madrid neighborhood of Salamanca was rocked on Friday by an explosion that left more than a dozen people injured. The blast emanated from a residential building just a few blocks away from the Retiro park, causing significant damage to both the building and nearby cars. Madrid’s emergency service reported [&hel...
ANKARA / PARIS (AA): A mosque affiliated with Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) in France’s northeastern province of Metz was attacked on Thursday night. The mosque was damaged in a fire that broke out after unknown persons lobbed three Molotov cocktails on the walls of the mosque. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Ali Durak, presi...
BERLIN (AA): Germany will continue its military support to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Thursday. Speaking at a joint news conference in Berlin with Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, Scholz said the two countries will expand their defense cooperation, and supply Soviet-made heavy weapons to Ukraine. ...
WASHINGTON (AA): A third evacuation from the war-ravaged Ukrainian city of Mariupol is underway, UN-Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced on Thursday. Guterres told the Security Council that two prior safe passage agreements resulted in “a measure of success” with 480 civilians being able to escape the strategic port city th...
ISTANBUL (AA): As many as 324 Ukrainians have been rescued in nine prisoner exchanges with Russian forces since the start of the war in February, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said Thursday. “All this has been achieved as a result of systematic and complex work of the Joint Center for Search and Release of […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AA): Ukraine needs “a strategic international support plan” similar to the historic Marshall Plan for rebuilding the country when the war ends, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday. Speaking via video link at an international donors’ conference hosted by Poland and Sweden in Warsaw to raise funds for Ukraine, Zelenskyy no...
STOCKHOLM (AA): NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said Thursday that if Sweden applies for membership in the alliance, it will provide protection until it becomes a member. Speaking to Swedish public broadcaster SVT, Stoltenberg discussed Sweden’s possible NATO membership. He said NATO will increase its presence around Sweden’s bor...
DUHOK, Iraq (AA): A Danish cyclist died from his injuries Thursday after his bike hit a landmine in Duhok province in northern Iraq. The landmine in Kani Masi village in Amedi district detonated when two Danish cyclists were passing through the region, local media reported. One of the cyclists succumbed to his injuries, according to […]
