ANKARA (AA/AFP ) – Tehran on Monday confirmed the deaths of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, and other officials in a helicopter crash in the country’s northwestern province. Iranian Deputy President for Executive Affairs Mohsen Mansouri said in a statement on his X that all on board, including ...
Atlanta, United States – AFP President Joe Biden told students on Sunday at the former university of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr that he heard their voices over the protests against Israel’s war on Gaza that have roiled US campuses. As one student stood with his back to Biden during the graduation ceremony […]
ANKARA (AA)- The seizure of Buthiduang town of Myanmar’s Rakhine state by the rebel ethnic Arakan Army (AA) has triggered a fresh exodus, displacing 150,000 Rohingya Muslims, a Rohingya rights group said on Sunday. On Saturday, the rebel group took complete control of Buthidaung township, home to the ethnic Rohingya population, near the ...
Kabul, Afghanistan – AFP The bodies of three Spanish tourists and three Afghans shot dead while visiting a market in Afghanistan were transported to the capital along with multiple wounded, the Taliban government said Saturday. The group was fired on while walking through the bazaar in the mountainous city of Bamiyan in central Afghanist...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States on Friday evacuated out of Gaza 17 American doctors who had been stuck since an Israeli takeover of the Rafah crossing closed the border with Egypt, official sources said. US diplomats arranged for the 17 doctors to leave instead through the Kerem Shalom crossing into Israel. “Some ...
Rafah, Palestinian Territories – AFP The first trucks began supplying aid to the war-ravaged Gaza Strip via a temporary pier on Friday, the US military said, as Israel’s attacks continued in the Palestinian territory. US Central Command said “trucks carrying humanitarian assistance began moving ashore” via the long-awai...
Jerusalem – AFP US troops early Thursday anchored a long-awaited temporary pier, meant to boost aid deliveries into war-ravaged Gaza, to a beach in the besieged Palestinian territory, the US military said. “Today at approximately 7:40 am (0440 GMT) United States Central Command personnel supporting the humanitarian mission to deliv...
Washington, United States – AFP US President Joe Biden challenged Donald Trump Wednesday to “make my day” and hold two televised debates in June and September, with his Republican rival swiftly accepting. Biden however shunned the three debates proposed by the bipartisan US election debates commission, opting instead for two ...
Washington, United States – AFP The United States does not believe that genocide is occurring in Gaza but Israel must do more to protect Palestinian civilians, President Joe Biden’s top national security official said Monday. As ceasefire talks stalled and Israel continued striking the southern city of Rafah, White House National S...
In defiance of US warnings, Israeli forces have entered Rafah and Jabalia refugee camp near Gaza City. Civilian casualties mounted as airstrikes targeted residential areas, killing at least four people, including a child, in Rafah’s Brazil neighborhood. Thousands of Palestinians fled to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis seeking refuge, straining...
