Toronto, Canada (AFP): A few hundred members of Canada’s Sikh community demonstrated outside the Indian consulate in Toronto on Saturday to protest the unsolved murder of one of their leaders last month in the Vancouver area. They accused the Indian government of being responsible for the gunning down of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, president o...
ANKARA (AA): Israeli settlers carried out a series of assaults against Palestinians and their properties across the occupied West Bank late on Thursday night. According to the state news agency WAFA, a group of settlers, protected by the Israeli forces, threw rocks on Palestinian cars near the village of Ein al-Beida, eastern West Bank. A [&he...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA): One person was killed and a number of others were injured Friday in a shooting at a mosque in eastern Lebanon, with the suspected shooter now in custody, according to local media. “A shooting took place at a mosque in (the town of) Bar Elias,” the Lebanese National News Agency reported. “Army […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): At least five Rohingya refugees were killed in a gunfight at Ukhiya Rohingya refugee camp in the southeast coast of Bangladesh on Friday. Speaking to the media, commanding officer of the Armed Police Battalion (APBn), Md Amir Zafar, said firing between two Rohingya groups in the camp led to the death of […]
BRUSSELS (AA): EU lawmakers have urged Greece and the European Commission to launch an international and independent probe into last month’s deadly migrant shipwreck off the coast of Greece. The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs held a debate dedicated to the tragedy believed to have claimed hun...
ROME (AA) – A European investigation has led to the arrest of 15 people accused of smuggling people from Syria to EU countries. According to the investigation, the network used an unusually long and expensive route to smuggle migrants into Europe. From Syria, the migrants were headed either to Sudan, the United Arab Emirates or […...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA): Kenyan police killed 20 al-Shabaab fighters in a gun battle along the porous border with Somalia on Thursday. Al-Shabaab launched the assault, sparking an armed clash with Kenya’s elite Special Operations Group (SOG) that lasted several hours. The Kenyan specialized force’s well-coordinated efforts resulted in ...
bLONDON (AA): Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) should be directly named in an inquiry relating to alleged unlawful killings in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013, a lawyer representing victims’ families said Wednesday. Richard Hermer’s remarks came as the Independent Inquiry Relating to Afghanistan held a hearing at the Royal Courts of...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Authorities in Pakistan announced Wednesday that they had arrested five Pakistanis on allegations of “illegal emigration” to Israel, which Islamabad does not recognize as a state. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) said that all of the accused were arrested in Mirpurkhas district of southern Sindh provin...
NEW YORK (AA) – US President Joe Biden Tuesday called on Republican lawmakers in Congress for “meaningful” gun reforms following a long holiday weekend of bloodshed across the country as the nation celebrates Independence Day. The US has seen a wave of shootings from Philadelphia to Fort Worth, Baltimore to Lansing and Wichita to Chicago...
