The Indian government bought Israeli spyware Pegasus in 2017 as part of a $2-billion package for weapons including a missile system, the New York Times reports. The year-long investigation revealed the FBI had bought and tested the spyware for years with plans to use it for domestic surveillance. That’s until the agency decided last year [&hel...
The United Arab Emirates intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile fired by Yemen’s Houthi rebels early this morning, during the Israeli president’s official visit to the country. No damage was caused by the attack, the UAE’s defense ministry said in a statement on Twitter. It added that debris fell in an unpopulated area and there [&hell...
Kassym-Jomart Tokayev unanimously chosen as leader of Nur Otan party, taking over from ex-President Nazarbayev. ANKARA (AA) – Kazakhstan’s president was elected as head of the country’s ruling Nur Otan party on Friday. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev was elected unanimously during the party’s extraordinary 21st Congress, according to a presidency statem...
ZOLOTE, Ukraine (AA) – Ukrainian soldiers on the frontline can only guess what Moscow’s next move would be amid growing Russian military buildup at the border. The soldiers at the frontline town of Zolote in Donbas region shared with Anadolu Agency their views on the latest developments. Zolote has been a flashpoint since 2014 due ...
Saifullah Muhammad works full-time as a community builder in Canada while also pursuing a master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Waterloo. Muhammad fled a cycle of persecution in his home of Burma’s Rakhine state with his parents in 1991. He and thousands of refugees took shelter in Bangladesh, which is […]...
Kashmiris across Pakistan-administered and Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday observed India’s Republic Day as a “Black Day.” They protested New Delhi’s withdrawal of the decades-long special rights of the disputed Jammu Kashmir region starting in August 2019. Tensions have been mounting between the two nuclear powers since then. P...
The World Health Organization or WHO issued a statement Wednesday warning that Afghanistan’s health system is on the verge of collapse. According to the statement, over 2,000 medical centers in the country are either closed or facing closure due to international aid drying up. Healthcare providers in Afghanistan, especially COVID-19 hospitals,...
IDLIB, Syria (AA) – Braving harsh winters, Syrian fathers stay awake at night to make sure their children do not to freeze to death in opposition-held Idlib. Hundreds of tents in the internally displaced persons (IDP) camps in Idlib along the border between Turkey and Syria were destroyed recently by heavy snowfall and downpour. The [&he...
Amid tensions with Russia over Ukraine, NATO is trying to consolidate its presence in eastern Europe. In December 2021, Russia presented a proposal to NATO and the US, according to which guarantees were to be provided for the fact that the military alliance would not expand further east. Furthermore, it demanded that no military bases [&hellip...
Russia reported over 88,000 coronavirus cases on January 27, hitting the highest single-day jump for the ninth day in a row. Daily coronavirus infections have begun to surge with the emergence of the highly contagious omicron variant, infecting thousands of people across the country. In the last 24 hours, 88,816 new cases have been detected, [...
