DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Rescue workers in Burkina Faso found no survivors in a flooded zinc mine’s rescue chamber after eight miners became stranded 32 days ago due to heavy rains, the government said Tuesday. The miners were not found in the room. Rescue teams had taken a long time to reach the room due […]
DOUALA, Cameroon – At least five people have been arrested in N’Djamena, Chad’s largest city and capital, following sporadic but violent protests against France over its alleged backing of the country’s military junta, the government said Monday. The Wakit-tamma coalition, a civil society group, held an authorized demonstrati...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkiye has killed 10 more PKK fighters in northern Iraq, the Turkish National Defense Ministry reported on Sunday. “We continue to put locks on the nests of terror,” the ministry said on Twitter. The PKK men were killed by Turkish forces under the country’s Operation Claw-Lock, raising the total to 95. Th...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somali lawmakers from both houses of parliament who gathered in a hangar inside heavily fortified Mogadishu International Airport elected Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as president Sunday, defeating incumbent President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, also known as Farmajo. Mohamud, who was Mohamed’s immediate predecessor as ...
ANKARA – Inter RAO, Russia’s largest electricity company, has suspended electricity supply to Finland, according to news reports. Inter RAO’s Finnish subsidiary, RAO Nordic Oy, said in a statement that it is “forced to suspend the electricity import” starting May 14. “Unfortunately, we are forced to note that for ...
DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani arrived in Tehran on an official visit on Thursday. He was received by Iranian First Vice President Mohammad Mokhber and Energy Minister Ali Akbar Mehrabian at the Mehrabad International Airport. Al Thani and a delegation have traveled to Tehran on the invitation of […]
ANKARA – The South Korean president has said that the security situation in the region is “tough” after reports of North Korea resuming its nuclear program. Yoon Suk-yeol called upon senior presidential secretaries for close monitoring of the situation. “The security situation is tough. Foreign countries are worried, and there’s talk of ...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Health Ministry on Wednesday said the Israeli forces shot dead Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh when she was covering an Israeli raid in the northern Jenin city of the occupied West Bank. Another journalist, Ali Al-Samoudi, was shot in the back, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry....
ALGIERS, Algeria – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks with Algerian Minister of Foreign Affairs and National Community Abroad Ramtane Lamamra on Tuesday as the two countries marked the 60th anniversary of the establishment of their diplomatic relations. Lavrov “took part in the wreath-laying ceremony at the monument to the heroe...
KIGALI, Rwanda – At least 14 civilians were killed in an overnight attack on a camp for internally displaced people in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s eastern Ituri province. Most of the victims were beheaded with machetes, according to the Kivu Security Tracker. It blamed the attack on the Lodda camp, located near the town […]
