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....
GENEVA (AA) – Condemning Moscow’s “premeditated, unprovoked, and unjustified attack on Ukraine” for violating international law, the US secretary of state on Tuesday questioned whether Russia is fit to be a member of the UN Human Rights Council. “More than at any other point in recent history, the principles at the heart of this council’s [&he...
The Tunisian Coast Guard rescued nine migrants and recovered the bodies of nine others after their boat capsized off the coast, the Tunisian Defense Ministry said on Monday. Marine security units rescued the African migrants, whose boat capsized 18 kilometers (11.1 miles) off the coast of the central-eastern city of Mahdia, said a ministry sta...
Eleven people have died in a fire in the Syrian capital, Damascus. According to an Interior Ministry statement, the blaze broke out at a commercial facility in central Damascus. Mohamed Abul Reish of the Damascus Hospital said an additional seven burned bodies were admitted to the hospital. Investigations have been launched to determine the ca...
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stressed that Ukraine deserves to be an EU member. He has called on the EU for Ukraine’s “immediate accession” to the bloc. “We call on the European Union for the immediate accession of Ukraine under a new special procedure,” Zelenskyy said during his address to the nati...
The United Nations Security Council voted Sunday to hold a rare emergency special session of the General Assembly to discuss Russia’s attack on Ukraine. The meeting will be convened on Monday, and is set to give all 193 members of the global body the opportunity to express their views on the invasion. Russia voted against […]
