DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – At least eight Malian soldiers were killed in an ambush in the Bandiagara region, the country’s military announced on Wednesday. The Malian army said in a statement that the soldiers patrolling between the Songoiba and Yaokanda districts in the Bandiagara region were ambushed by unidentified persons. Mali has been b...
Ottawa, Canada – AFP Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Wednesday with an Indigenous community that recently identified 93 graves at a former residential school, part of a series of similar discoveries that shocked the country. His visit to the Williams Lake First Nation in British Columbia came just days after a delegation spoke...
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Sudan’s de facto leader General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Wednesday started his first official visit to Egypt since last year’s military coup. Burhan, greeted on arrival by Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in a ceremony broadcast live on state television, was accompanied by the head of general i...
Doha, Qatar – AFP Qatar on Wednesday opened one of the world’s biggest sports museums with artefacts from some of the most famous Olympic heroes. The 19,000 square metre 3-2-1 Museum Qatar Olympic and Sports Museum, next to one of the stadiums to be used in this year’s World Cup, has taken more than 15 […]
NEW DELHI (AA) – Three Kashmiri students who were detained on charges of celebrating Pakistan’s victory against India in a cricket match last year have been granted bail. A court in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday announced the verdict. The students, Arhseed Yusuf, Showkat Ahmed Ganai and Inayat Altaf Sheikh, w...
JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has postponed his planned visit to India after his infection with Covid-19. Bennett was scheduled to arrive in New Delhi on April 2, but his office said the visit will be rescheduled for another date. The visit was planned to mark 30 years of diplomatic relations between Israel […...
BRUSSELS – The EU foreign policy chief has called on the Taliban regime in Afghanistan to immediately reopen secondary schools for girls. In a declaration issued on behalf of the bloc, Josep Borrell slammed the Taliban’s decision to exclude over 1 million girls from secondary education in the country. “No religious or social reason...
JERUSALEM – Israel will appoint a military attache to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain, according to an Israeli diplomat. “Israel will appoint a military attache to the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain,” Eitan Naeh, Tel Aviv’s Ambassador in Manama, told Israeli Army Radio, adding that the move “will happen soo...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israel and Bahrain on Monday signed a framework agreement for cooperation on the sidelines of a six-party summit held in the southern city of Negev. The summit, which concluded earlier Monday, brought together the foreign ministers of Israel, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt, Morocco, and the United States....
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia’s media watchdog has warned media against publishing a recent interview with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine. “Roskomnadzor warns Russian media about the need to refrain from publishing this interview,” Roskomnadzor said in a statement on its official website. The statement added that ...
