TEHRAN, Iran (AA) -An Iran official said Saturday an agreement has been reached with the UN nuclear watchdog to resolve issues that have prevented a new deal. Mohammad Eslami told a joint news conference with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi in Tehran that Tehran has agreed to provide the agency with documents [&he...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – At least 27 Malian soldiers were killed and 33 wounded in an attack on a security post in central Mali, the government said late Friday. Insurgents with car bombs attacked the Mondoro security post in the circle of Douentza at around 5.30 a.m., said Territorial Administration and Decentralization Minister Col. Abdou...
KYIV (AA) – A senior Russian military officer has been killed in Ukraine’s northern Chernihiv city, a Ukrainian official claimed on Friday. Anton Gerashchenko, an advisor to Ukraine’s interior minister, said on Facebook that Andrei Sukhovetskiy, deputy commander of the 41st Combined Arms Army of the Central Military District, has been ki...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – The US Supreme Court voted 6-3 on Friday to reinstate the death penalty for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev, who is now 28, and his older brother, Tamerlan, detonated two pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013, killing 3 people and injuring […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US announced Thursday that it is extending special immigration protections to Ukrainians as Russia continues its war against its eastern European neighbor. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said what is known as Temporary Protected Status (TPS) would be extended to Ukrainians for 18 months because of th...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Supreme Court rejected Thursday a plea from a Guantanamo Bay detainee to learn more about his torture through two former CIA contractors. In a 6-3 vote, the top court upheld the federal government’s claim of “state secrets” privilege in Abu Zubaydah’s case, allowing the secrecy claim even tho...
MOSCOW (AA) – The goal of Moscow’s special military operation is to demilitarize Ukraine, Russia’s foreign minister said Wednesday. Once Ukraine has been demilitarized, the Ukrainians “must decide themselves how they will live,” Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Qatar’s Al Jazeera TV channel. All people living in Ukraine must have a say ...
ANKARA (AA) – Ukraine’s president said early Thursday that nearly 9,000 Russian soldiers have been killed since the war on the country began a week ago. “About 9,000 Russians were killed in a week. In the direction of Mykolaiv, they had to take 200, 300 (Russian soldiers) 19-20 years old with dozens of helicopters,” Volodymyr […]...
ANKARA (AA) – More than 874,000 people have fled Ukraine to neighboring countries since Russia’s attack, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Wednesday. According to data on the UNHCR website, Poland has welcomed 453,982 people from Ukraine. Hungary and Moldova have accepted 116,348 and 79,315 refugees, respectively. Slovakia and ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least three policemen were killed and over two dozen injured in an explosion in southwest Pakistan on Wednesday, an official said. The blast that targeted a police van in a busy street occurred in Quetta, the capital of southwestern Balochistan province, Bushra Rindh, a provincial government spokeswoman, said....
