ISTANBUL (AA) – Beijing dismissed as “false” the claims that the US Treasury was breached in a “major cybersecurity incident,” state media reported. “These unfounded accusations (are) lacking evidence,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Mao Ning told reporters in Beijing. Mao’s comments came in response to a report by US-bas...
ANKARA (AA) – South Korean authorities declared 177 passengers and crew dead, two missing, and two rescued after a plane crashed at Muan International Airport on Sunday. Earlier, officials of the Jeolla Fire Department, while briefing passengers’ families at the airport, said that “out of the 181 passengers, most are presumed dead,...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – At least five people were killed and three injured in a border clash between Pakistan and Afghanistan, according to local media reports. The Afghan Defense Ministry confirmed the clash in a statement posted on X, claiming that its forces conducted attacks inside Pakistani territory targeting “miscreants’ hideouts.&...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The UN Security Council has voiced grave concern about the situation in Afghanistan. “The members of the Security Council are deeply concerned with the continuing negative impact of the Taliban’s policies and practices that restrict the enjoyment by women and girls of their human rights and fundamental freedoms on...
ANKARA (AA) – Iran’s foreign minister has announced the beginning of a new chapter in the strategic partnership between Iran and China. According to Iran’s official news agency IRNA, Abbas Araghchi stressed the importance of China’s achievements as a developing country, which he said “offers hope to other nations facing similar cha...
Bangladesh says it will not allow more Rohingya refugees into the country, citing 60,000 arrivals over the past two years. Home Affairs Adviser retired Lt. Gen. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said Bangladesh no longer will allow any more Rohingya to enter under any circumstances. With more than 1.2 million Rohingya already in camps in Cox’s Bazar, [&...
MOSCOW (AA) – A survivor of Wednesday’s Azerbaijan Airlines crash claims that the plane’s pilots tried to land in Grozny, Chechnya, three times, followed by an explosion outside the plane, according to an audio recording shared by Russian TV channel RT. Subkhankul Rahimov said that something exploded on the third landing attempt and that...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that “wonderful soldiers of China” are operating the Panama Canal “lovingly but illegally.” In a post on his Truth Social platform on Christmas Day, Trump alleged that the Chinese presence is aimed at ensuring that the US invests billions of dollars in...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The rehabilitation operation continued on Wednesday in Bangladesh after a massive fire left hundreds of Rohingya families homeless in Cox’s Bazar amid rough winter weather. Bangladesh is hosting over 1.2 million Muslim Rohingya in Cox’s Bazar, most of whom fled Myanmar in August 2017 during a military crackdown t...
MOSCOW (AA) – An Azerbaijan Airlines flight with 67 people on board, traveling from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny in Russia’s Chechnya region, crashed near the Kazakh Caspian city of Aktau on Wednesday, the Kazakh Emergency Ministry said, adding that there were 25 survivors. According to the ministry, 62 passengers and fiv...
