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 […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Fierce fighting between two rival tribes in northwestern Pakistan over a piece of land claimed another two lives on Tuesday, raising the casualties to 11 over the past five days, officials and local media reported. The clashes involving heavy weapons, including rockets from both sides, have brought life to a standstill ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): A top commander of Myanmar’s Rohingya liberation group Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) was killed in a gun battle with Bangladesh police on Monday in the southeast Cox’s Bazar coast. Law enforcement forces received information that about a hundred ARSA members were planning to attack Rohingya refugee c...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh is investigating the leakage of data related to more than 50 million of its citizens. The data was stolen from a government website. A cybersecurity specialist, Viktor Markopoulos, said he was able to access the data through a simple Google search. The data includes names, phone numbers, email address...
WASHINGTON – An Afghan interpreter working for the U.S. military was shot and killed on July 3 in Washington. Nasrat Ahmad Yar, 31, was working as a driver for the ride-sharing company Lyft when he was found shot to death in his car. Yar had come to the U.S. in 2021 to escape harassment after […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA): At least eight people including six children were killed on Sunday when the modified auto-rickshaw they were travelling in struck a landmine, said local officials. The incident took place between the village of Jicibow and town of Bulaburde in Hirshabelle state. Ibrahim Abdi Ali, a security official, who spoke to Anado...
