BAGHDAD (AA) – The Iraqi Parliament on Saturday failed to elect the country’s president after dozens of lawmakers boycotted the voting session. A statement issued by the Parliament said 126 out of 329 legislators boycotted the session. At least 220 deputies should attend the session for presidential elections to take place. A parliamentary sta...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – Azerbaijani forces thwarted a provocation attempt by Armenian forces in the recently liberated Nagorno-Karabakh region, the country’s Defense Ministry announced Saturday. The ministry said that illegal Armenian forces in the region – which was liberated in fall 2020 from decades of Armenian occupation – took advan...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has sanctioned five individuals and five entities in Myanmar over “genocide” of its Rohingya population. Those designated include Myanmar’s 66th Light Infantry Division, including its leaders Brigadier-General Ko Ko Oo, and and Major-General Zaw Hein. Three individuals identified as arms dealers...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a federal lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security on behalf of three Muslim American citizens who said they were unconstitutionally questioned about their religion at the border. “How often do you pray?” was one of the questions listed by the plaintiffs...
ISTANBUL (AA) – US President Joe Biden on Friday received a briefing on humanitarian response amid Russia’s war on Ukraine during a visit to Poland. “The single most important thing that we can do on the outset is keeping the democracies united in our opposition, and our effort to curtail devastation that is occurring at […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Chinese President Xi Jinping held separate phone calls with newly elected South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday, according to the Chinese Foreign Ministry. Xi congratulated Yoon on his election and said “the two countries are inseparable partners of cooperation.” Yoon emph...
GENEVA (AA) – The talks for a solution to the war in Syria in Geneva offered no signs of whether the parties involved would organise further negotiations. The regime side made no comments while leaving the talks, which involved efforts to draft a new constitution for the country after over a decade of war, with […]
PARIS (AA) – France, Greece, and Turkey will conduct a joint evacuation effort for residents in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol, French President Emmanuel Macron has said. Speaking at the end of a two-day EU summit in Brussels, Macron said the three countries would conduct an “exceptional humanitarian operation” to ge...
KIGALI, Rwanda/ACCRA, Ghana (AA) – West African leaders met Friday to examine the political situation in Mali, Burkina Faso and Guinea, issuing warnings for failure to restore constitutional order following recent coups in the three countries. At an extraordinary summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional b...
MOSCOW – Moves against Russians in the West over the Ukraine war are like the ugly, racist persecution seen under Nazi Germany, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. Speaking at a meeting with cultural workers, Putin said the West is trying “to cancel Russia,” fighting against its culture and banning Russian writers and ...
