US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin can still avoid a war of choice after Moscow ordered troops to move into eastern Ukraine. Austin said the US will continue to work closely with Kyiv before heading to a meeting with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba at the Pentagon. “Russia’s...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the Minsk Agreement on the Ukrainian settlement ceased to exist when Russia recognized Ukraine’s breakaway regions of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent states. Speaking at a news conference in Moscow, Putin said Russia had struggled for eight years for the implementation of the accord while...
JERUSALEM, PALESTINE: An Israeli court on Tuesday suspended the eviction order against a Palestinian family, who lived in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of the occupied East Jerusalem. The decision was welcomed by the family that would otherwise be evicted in March. Recent provocative acts of certain Jewish groups in the region are believed to...
NUR-SULTAN, Kazakhstan (AA) – A total of 18 foreign nationals remain under arrest in Kazakhstan for allegedly being involved in the deadly unrest that swept the country last month, the country’s human rights commissioner said on Tuesday. Speaking at a news meeting, Elvira Azimova said that foreign nationals, 14 Uzbek, two Russian and two...
Bangladesh marked its Language Martyrs’ Day on February 21 and the International Mother Language Day with somber ceremonies to honor the sacrifices of people killed in the country’s 1952 Language Movement. The movement was launched after the government of the then-West Pakistan (present day Pakistan), which jointly held constitutional powers o...
The Indian state where Muslim girls with hijab are being banned from entering schools has now turned violent against Muslims. On Sunday at least 20 people were injured and around 50 vehicles torched during a funeral procession. A Hindu extremist, who police say, was an active Bajrang Dal militia member involved in attacks targeting Muslims [&h...
A total of 750 tons of emergency relief goods sent by a“charity train” from Turkey to Afghanistan was delivered to Kabul Monday. Medical aid packages were delivered to the Health Ministry of the interim Afghan administration in a ceremony. It was coordinated by Turkey’s state-run Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency and with the suppo...
Pakistan is under fire for toughening its controversial cybercrime law. It allows anyone to file a complaint against people posting fake news on Twitter and Facebook, and increases the prison term from three to five years for those found guilty. Changes to the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act were introduced Sunday through a presidential or...
Iran signaled “significant progress” Monday in talks on reviving a stalled accord on its nuclear program. But President Ebrahim Raisi, on his first visit to a Gulf state, insisted Washington must lift its crippling sanctions on Iran. The country’s president is a personal target of United States’ sanctions. Raisi spoke out ahead of a summit [&h...
Burma on Monday urged the U.N.’s highest court to drop a genocide case brought against it by The Gambia for alleged persecution of Rohingya Muslims. Gambia dragged Burma before the International Court of Justice in 2019. The Buddhist-majority country is accused of genocide against the Rohingya Muslim minority after a bloody 2017 military crac...
