KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine decided to declare a state of emergency across the country, except for the separatist regions of Luhansk and Donetsk, the council chief said on Wednesday. Oleksiy Danilov said the state of emergency would last 30 days and could be extended up to 60 […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan left for Moscow on Wednesday for a two-day visit to Russia amid escalating tensions in the region. During his maiden trip, Khan will meet President Vladimir Putin and other Russian leaders, including the deputy prime minister, as well as local businessmen and investors, the Prime Mi...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – At least three passengers were killed and one went missing after a passenger ferry capsized in a southern river in Bangladesh early Wednesday, an official said. The 28-meter-long (92 feet) wooden water vessel was carrying 45 people, including three crew members, when it collided with a big passenger ferry. The pr...
ERUSALEM (AA) – Palestinians will have an entity in the future instead of a state, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said. “Eventually we will find ourselves in a two-entity solution, in which we respect Palestinian sovereignty and governance, but we will be respected for our security needs,” Gantz said at the Munich Security Conference thi...
RABAT, Morocco (AA) – Morocco has built a new military zone near border with Algeria, according to a local military publication on Wednesday. The Royal Armed Forces magazine said in its February edition that the military zone aims “to ensure consistency of the command, control and support among the Moroccan forces and to offer further [&hellip...
HEBRON, PALESTINE – FEBRUARY 23: Israeli forces on Wednesday demolished eight Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, displacing dozens of their residents, according to a local activist. Fouad al-Amour, coordinator of the Protection and Resilience Committee in the southern West Bank, said the demolitions took place in the Sha’...
NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN – FEBRUARY 23: Disabled Afghans carried out a protest on Friday, Feb 23, against the US President Joe Biden’s executive order to seize half of $7 billion in assets held in US financial institutions. Protestors who lost their limbs during incidents of violence in the country’s eastern province of Nangarh...
HAJJAH, YEMEN – FEBRUARY 23: Thousands of Yemeni children who were forcibly displaced due to the ongoing civil war between the government forces and the Iranian-backed Houthis have been deprived of health services, especially necessary vaccines such as polio, diphtheria, measles, and hepatitis-B. Humanitarian aid cannot be delivered to m...
TEHRAN, IRAN – FEBRUARY 23: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said they are optimistic about nuclear talks. “So far we are optimistic about the Vienna talks. We hope that some sensitive and important issues remaining in the negotiations will be resolved in the coming days with realism from the Western side,” h...
An Indian actor has been arrested for criticizing a judge now hearing challenges to a hijab ban in schools. Chetan Kumar, a Kannada-language film actor, was arrested in the state of Karnataka for his social media comments on how High Court Justice Krishna Dixit questioned the behavior of a rape victim in a previous ruling. […]
