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...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Afghanistan’s interim Taliban administration has claimed that at least 46 people have been killed in a bombing by Pakistani fighter jets in the eastern Paktika province. Mullah Hamdullah Fitrat, deputy spokesman for the interim Taliban administration, said that Pakistani jets bombed four locations in Paktika’s Ba...
Rohingya organizations globally have demanded justice and peaceful coexistence in Burma’s Rakhine state. This comes as fighting escalates between the military junta and the Arakan Army. In a joint statement, 28 groups urged the Buddhist dominated Arakan Army to respect the rights of minorities, including the Rohingya. They stressed the need f...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Amid escalating conflict between the junta government and rebel Arakan Army in Burma, a fresh 60,000 Rohingya entered Bangladesh in the last two months, a Bangladeshi official said on Sunday. Bangladesh is hosting over 1.2 million Rohingya in its southeastern Cox’s Bazar district. Most of the Rohingya Muslims fled Burm...
ANKARA (AA) – China has dispatched a new contingent of peacekeepers to join the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), according to the Ministry of National Defense and state-run media reports. The second group of personnel from China’s 23rd peacekeeping contingent successfully arrived in southern Lebanon, where they joi...
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 52 people were killed and 56 others injured in two separate traffic accidents in Afghanistan, officials of the interim Taliban administration said on Thursday. The accidents on Wednesday evening took place along the Kabul-Kandahar highway in the southeastern Ghazni province. Mullah Hamidullah Nisar, a Taliban spokesman...
Hundreds of Muslims in China’s Yunnan province staged protests outside government offices following the detention of Imam Ma Yuwei. Footage on social media showed crowds praying and demanding his release in Yuxi city after police took Ma from a restaurant on Sunday. Witnesses reported that plainclothes police surrounded the area, detaining Ma...
The Congress has directed Apple and Google to remove TikTok from their app stores by Jan. 19, 2025. Reps. John Moolenaar and Raja Krishnamoorthi, leaders of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), emphasized the companies must comply with a law aimed at safeguarding national security. The law, signed by President Joe ...
