PARIS (AA) – In a first of its kind, the Catholic Church in France has paid financial reparations to six victims of child sexual abuse in the church, according to local media. The fund for solidarity and the fight against sexual assault on minors (SALEM), set up by the Conference of Bishops of France, has […]
ANKARA (AA) – The US is planning to build a diplomatic complex on private property confiscated from Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem, a rights organization said Sunday. In a statement, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel (Adalah) said they have found new evidence that the land on which the diplomatic compound is [&...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – A senior military commander was shot dead in eastern Yemen, according to Yemeni authorities on Monday. Col. Belkhir Banseb of the 2nd Military Zone came under fire from unidentified gunmen in the city of Hadhramaut late Sunday. “Yemen has lost one of the most prominent cadres and heroes, who was distinguished […]
ANKARA (AA) – Iran claimed Wednesday that it had detained the UK’s deputy ambassador in Tehran for allegedly taking samples of soil from a region where missile exercises were being conducted. Giles Whitaker and several other foreign nationals were detained by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) after it was determined that...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – A wildfire in the Gaacidh forest in the eastern Sanaag region of Somaliland in Somalia is burning from an undetermined cause, authorities said Tuesday. The fire in the forest that is described as one of the most beautiful in the region and home to unique trees and dozens of fauna started […]
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Two UN peacekeepers were killed and five others injured on Tuesday in a bomb explosion in northern Mali, the UN mission in the West African county said. The incident occurred in the morning when an armored vehicle of a UN Mali mission logistics convoy struck a mine on the Tessalit-Gao axis, […]
ANKARA (AA) – Egypt’s Suez Canal revenues hit an all-time high, recording $7 billion in the last fiscal year, according to local authorities. Osama Rabie, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, said in a statement that the international waterway’s revenues rose by 20.7% from $5.8 billion in the fiscal year 2020-2021. Rabie said 22,032 shi...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Authority (PA) on Monday rejected “manipulation” of investigations into the killing of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Abu Akleh, 51, was shot dead on May 11 while covering an Israeli military raid near the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank. While Palestinian officials and he...
Jerusalem – – AFP The Israeli army said Saturday it had intercepted three drones launched by Hezbollah that were headed towards an offshore gas field in the Mediterranean, amid rising tension between Israel and Lebanon. The drones were not armed and did not pose a risk, Israeli military sources said, adding that the drones were [&h...
Panicked children and adults ran for their lives Monday as at least six people were killed and dozens more were wounded in a mass shooting that took place during a Fourth of July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park. Veteran Chicago Sun-Times reporter Lynn Sweet—who described the scene of the shooting as a “bloodbath”—said...
