NEW DELHI, India – Both chambers of India’s parliament were adjourned Thursday after a shocking video surfaced on social media showing women being paraded naked and sexually assaulted. The incident took place in the northeastern state of Manipur. Manipur state, which borders Myanmar, has been witnessing violent clashes between two ...
ISLAMABAD (AA): Two blasts — apparently suicide attacks– in northwestern Pakistan left six dead, officials said on Thursday. The blasts by two suspected suicide bombers near the Tehsil administration complex in Bara Bazar of Khyber district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province killed four policemen and wounded eight others, ...
PARIS (AA): An investigation has been launched into the donation campaign organized for the family of the police officer who killed Nahel M last month in a suburb of Paris. Paris Prosecutor’s Office told Anadolu in a statement that the investigation was launched into the donation campaign that collected €1.6 million (nearly $1.8 million)...
JERUSALEM (AA): Israeli settlers vandalized more Palestinian properties and set four cars ablaze in the Arab town of Abu Ghosh, northwest of Jerusalem, Israeli police said on Monday. In a statement, the police said that it found “racist graffiti” written on walls in the town. The attack is suspected to be part of the “price [...
ISLAMABAD (AA): Pakistan’s military claimed TTP militants have freedom of action across the border in Afghanistan, urging Kabul not to allow its soil to be used against any country. “The Armed Forces of Pakistan have serious concerns about the safe havens and liberty of action available to the TTP in Afghanistan,” Gen. Syed Asim Mu...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA): The US has condemned the atrocities allegedly committed by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in West Darfur. “Reports of mass graves in Misterei and El Geneina provide further evidence of atrocities committed by the RSF and its allied militias in Sudan,” the US Embassy in Khartoum said in a state...
UNITED NATIONS (AA): The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor has said that he has launched an investigation into new alleged war crimes in Sudan’s Darfur region. In his briefing to the UN Security Council, Karim Khan said the violence between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group has spilled ...
Bamako, Mali (AFP): A prominent Malian TV and radio journalist has been acquitted of charges that he falsely claimed a former premier had been murdered while in detention under the ruling junta. Mohamed Youssouf Bathily was placed in custody on March 13 after allegedly saying former prime minister Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga had not died from [&he...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Eight people, including a civilian, were killed in a suspected militant attack on a military garrison in southwestern Pakistan, near Afghanistan border, on Wednesday, officials said. According to the Pakistani military’s media wing, Inter Services Public Relations, four troops and three militants were killed, and ...
HOUSTON, United States (AA) – A defendant who killed 23 people at a Walmart store in Texas has been sentenced to 90 consecutive life terms. The murders took place in 2019. The shooting also injured 22 others. Patrick Crusius،, 24, had pleaded guilty in February. It was one of the deadliest attacks on Latinos in […]
