KIRKLARELI, Turkiye – At least 84 irregular migrants have claimed that they were pushed back to Turkiye half-naked by Bulgarian border units. Gendarmerie teams in Turkiye’s northwestern Kirklareli province noticed that there were semi-naked irregular migrants in the forest area during their patrol in Kofcaz district near the Bulgar...
KARACHI / NEW DELHI – Pakistani and Indian political observers do not foresee any immediate easing of heightened hostilities between the two nuclear neighbors despite a recent regime change in Islamabad. The already fraught relations between the two countries further worsened in ugust 2019, when New Delhi stripped the disputed Jammu and ...
KYIV, Ukraine – Some 20,600 Russian soldiers have been killed since the war began in Ukraine on February 24, the Ukrainian military has said. Ukrainian forces have destroyed 167 Russian aircraft, 147 helicopters, 155 unmanned aerial vehicles, 790 tanks, 2,041 armored vehicles and 381 artillery systems, according to the Ukrainian General ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A Pakistani court on Monday handed the death penalty to six men found involved in lynching a Sri Lankan factory manager last year, according to local media and the court record. Another seven were sentenced to life imprisonment, while some 76 accused were given two-year jail terms over the incident that […...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Nine Palestinians were injured Monday in fresh Israeli raids in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. Medics treated six Palestinians for injuries in the towns of al-Yamun and Kafr Dan in Jenin in the northern West Bank, it said in a statement. According to eyewitnesses, Israeli [...
On Friday, over 700 Jewish settlers stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound under heavy protection from Israeli police, Haaretz newspaper reports. Israeli police also restricted the entry of Muslim worshippers for the dawn prayers at Islam’s third holiest site. Jews call the site the “Temple Mount,” claiming two Jewish temples stood there in anc...
Police in the Indian capital New Delhi have arrested 14 Muslims, according to The Wire. Muslims were resisting a RSS militia attack on their mosque on Saturday. A procession led by the Hindu militia Bajrang Dal attacked the mosque in the Delhi suburb of Jahangirpuri. According to area resident Salman Khan, they “tried to wave […]
BRUSSELS (AA) – European Council chief Charles Michel held discussions on Monday with Jordan’s King Abdullah II about the deteriorating security situation in the occupied West Bank. The two spoke about “the importance of preserving (the) status quo of holy sites in Jerusalem,” Michel said on Twitter. The leaders agreed that the “deterio...
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran on Monday said it is seriously pushing for an end to sanctions in the Vienna talks, urging the Biden administration to abandon the previous government’s “maximum pressure” policy toward Tehran. At a weekly press conference in Tehran on Monday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said Biden’s team must do away with [...
On Wednesday, ABN Amro, the third-largest Dutch bank, issued an apology for its predecessors’ role in the Atlantic slave trade during the 18th and 19th centuries. The bank worked with the International Institute of Social History to investigate its two predecessors, Hope & Co. and Mees & Zoonen. Researchers found Hope & Co.’s prof...
