ISLAMABAD (AA): Pakistani authorities have collected the DNA samples of relatives to identify those who lost their lives in the tragic boat accident off the coast of Greece on June 14. The country observed a mourning day on Monday as hundreds of Pakistanis were reportedly among those who died or went missing in the tragedy. […]
ISTANBUL (AA): In a neighborhood in northern Khartoum, a group of soldiers broke into a house and raped a woman while they held her husband at gunpoint. They also raped other women in the house, all of them refugees from Eritrea. In another area of Khartoum, two women were violently dragged out of a bus […]
LONDON (AA): Britain on Friday called on Serbia to release three Kosovar police officers, also urging the two countries to show “maximum restraint” amid recent tensions. “We call for the immediate release of the three Kosovo policemen detained on 14 June,” said a Foreign Office statement, referring to the police officers taken into custody on ...
ANKARA (AA): Civil society groups in India have accused the ruling right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of divisive politics in the northeastern state of Manipur, where ethnic violence has claimed over 100 lives and forced thousands of people from their homes since early last month. “Manipur is burning today in very ...
ISTANBUL (AA): A court in Australia has dismissed a decorated soldier’s case against media organizations and three journalists over their coverage of alleged war crimes in Afghanistan. The defamation case was dismissed after Judge Anthony Besanko found that the newspapers had “proven several of the key allegations” of war cri...
BEIRUT (AA): A kidnapped Saudi citizen was rescued by the Lebanese intelligence in an operation against criminals, several of whom have been arrested, the country’s army chief announced, without revealing the identities of the abductors. The Saudi national working as an administrative employee in the Saudi Arabian Airlines Beirut office ...
ROME (AA): Italian police have detained a minor accused of being part of a transnational group of youths supporting the ISIS group. The police said they found evidence that he was ready to organize an arson attack in the area of Bergamo in northern Italy, where he lives. They said the boy who has Italian […]
Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan (AFP): In a secluded compound in south Afghanistan, Bibi Hazrato cries in dismay as a group of men hack down her poppy crop, enforcing a Taliban government order to wean the nation off the narcotic plant. “If you were working for God, you would not have crushed this little field,” Bibi cries. […]
TORONTO (AA): A man suspected of attacking the Turkish House in New York City earlier this week has been captured as a result of a US police operation. The suspect, Recep Akbiyik, was apprehended by the New York Police Department in the early morning hours on Friday, sources told Anadolu. Authorities identified the assailant Wednesday [&hellip...
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): A Lebanese judge has banned the country’s central bank chief Riad Salameh from travelling, days after Beirut received an Interpol red notice following a French arrest warrant, a judicial official said Wednesday. Salameh, Lebanon’s long-serving central bank chief, has been the target of a series of judicial in...
