DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Train services in Bangladesh resumed on Wednesday after a seven-hour strike ended with the country’s rail minister promising to meet rail workers’ demands. “I have informed Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and the Finance Ministry about the demands of the staffers and as per directions of the premie...
Russian state television pundits have suggested exacting “revenge” on the U.S. for its support of the Ukrainian government and crippling economic sanctions. The Daily Beast’s Julia Davis reports the linchpin of this “revenge plan” is getting former President Donald Trump reelected in 2024. Russian political scientist Malek Dudakov recently urg...
On Monday, United Nations special envoy Hans Grundberg began his first official visit to Yemen’s rebel-held capital Sanaa. Grundberg’s arrival comes after an April 2 ceasefire that the country’s warring parties have accused each other of violating. The Swedish diplomat is scheduled to meet Huthi rebel officials during the visit. Grundberg’s of...
The Indian film “Beast” has been banned in Kuwait and Qatar due to its reportedly stereotypical depiction of Muslims as terrorists and its dialogues against Pakistan. The Tamil-language film, described as an action-comedy, stars Thalapathy Vijay and Pooja Hegde HEGDAY. Vijay plays a government intelligence agent stuck in a mall with terrorists...
U.S.-based civil rights, faith groups and advocates have condemned a federal commission being pressured to dilute its reporting on religious persecution in India. In a letter to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom or USCIRF, these groups and individuals urged it to withstand pressure from U.S.-based Hindu nationalis...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish security forces killed three PKK members in northern Iraq, the National Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry said on Twitter that PKK members, spotted in the Operation Claw-Tiger zone, were killed with fire support vehicles. Operations Claw-Tiger and Claw-Eagle began in border regions of northern Iraq in 2020 ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran is open to public sector investments from regional countries in nuclear energy, a senior official told Anadolu Agency. Pejman Shirmardi, Deputy Director of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI), said Tehran welcomes public sector companies from countries in the region to enter the field. “Iran’s cap...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s newly elected Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Tuesday said that “peaceful” settlement of the Kashmir dispute with neighboring India is “indispensable.” Thanking his Indian counterpart Narendra Modi for felicitations on his election as premier, Shehbaz said that Islamabad desires “peaceful” and “cooperative”...
JERUSALEM – Israel’s Shin Bet security service has launched an investigation into suspicions that China planted a spy device in a thermal cup given as a gift to an Israeli minister, according to local media. The suspicions arose after a routine check of the gift found “suspicious materials.” The cup was sent from the Chinese [&hell...
On Monday, the United States voiced support for Pakistan’s “peaceful upholding of constitutional democratic principles”. This was after the country’s new prime minister took office. Shehbaz Sharif was sworn-in after former Premier Imran Khan was ousted in a no-confidence vote. Khan attempted to thwart the vote and maintained he was the victim...
