IGDIR, Türkiye (AA) – A total of 483 Afghan migrants who had entered Türkiye illegally have been deported by Turkiye. As part of the work carried out according to the Irregular Migration Strategy Document and the National Action Plan, migrants who do not have valid documents to reside legally in Türkiye are being sent to […]
KANO, Nigeria (AA) – Around 1,500 corpses have been swept away by floods from a cemetery in northern Nigeria, an official said Wednesday. The governor of Niger state, Abubakar Sani Bello, confirmed the news, saying a nearby river was littered with corpses. The floods followed days of rains in the area and other neighborhoods and [&hellip...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UK will continue to stand in lockstep with Ukraine in defiance of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons, Britain’s top diplomat said in an exclusive interview. ”We have seen this escalatory aggressive rhetoric coming from Vladimir Putin. What he should understand, what the ...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – A US airstrike in central Somalia killed 27 al-Shabaab members, the American military said on Wednesday. The airstrike was conducted on Sept. 18 “at the request of the Federal Government of Somalia … against al-Shabaab terrorists who were attacking Somali National Army forces near Buulobarde,” the US African Command s...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – At least 45 people have been abducted by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria’s Kaduna state according to official sources. Speaking to reporters, the president of the Southern Kaduna Peoples Union, Awemi Maisamari, said armed men on motorcycles stormed a church in the Kajuru local government area of Kaduna. In the attack...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israeli forces have demolished two Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank. Hasan Melihat, head of Al-Baydar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, said Israeli forces stormed the Ein Samia Bedouin community, east of Ramallah city, and demolished two shack homes citing ‘lack of building permits....
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least three people have been killed in several days of protests in Iran’s Kurdistan province over the death last week of a 22-year-old woman in police custody. Kurdistan Governor Ismail Zarei Koosha announced that three people had been killed “suspiciously” in demonstrations held in cities of the prov...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Nine-month-old Nayma is being given a high dose of drugs under the careful watch of physicians at a health center in Bangladesh capital Dhaka. She has been diagnosed with a deadly drug-resistant form of tuberculosis. Nayma has been provided treatment for the last three months for MultiDrug Resistant Tuberculosis,...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A US judge has overturned the murder conviction of Adnan Syed, who had been convicted for the 1999 killing of his former girlfriend. Baltimore Circuit Judge Melissa Phinn vacated the conviction of Syed, granted a new trial, and ordered his immediate release after 22 years in prison. Syed, now 41, was found […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Another 27 people have lost their lives in flood-hit areas of Pakistan amid reports of an outbreak of waterborne diseases in the affected regions, officials and local media said. During the last 24 hours, 15 people died as houses collapsed in different areas of southern Sindh province, bringing the total number of […]
