BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – The European Union’s door is open for Bosnia and Herzegovina as candidate status is on the table, the bloc’s commissioner for enlargement said Monday. ”We want candidate status granted to Bosnia and Herzegovina now. But this is also a recommendation that comes from our side with high expectations,” Oli...
Moroni, Comoros (AFP): Prosecutors in the Comoros have sought a life sentence for former president Ahmed Abdallah Sambi who was tried in absentia for high treason. Sambi, 64, the arch opponent to current president Azali Assoumani, faces charges related to the alleged sale of Comorian passports to stateless people living in Gulf nations. “...
BERLIN (AA) – A firefighter was arrested for his suspected role in an arson attack at a Ukrainian refugee hostel in northeastern Germany, the Bild newspaper reported Thursday. The 32-year-old volunteer firefighter, Nick P., was detained early Wednesday on arson charges — one month after the fire gutted the building in the village o...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A court in Bangladesh on Wednesday sentenced a Rohingya refugee and three locals to death for their involvement in drug smuggling. The judge of the District and Sessions Court in Cox’s Bazar announced the verdict in front of the Rohingya man Muhammad Ayaz, 34, and three locals, and it included a […]
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Gunmen suspected to be members of a separatist group killed a senior tribal leader and two of his aides in southeast Nigeria, police said on Tuesday. A police spokesman, Michael Abattam, said gunmen in four vehicles and on two motorcycles, entered Obudi Agwa, Oguta area in Imo State on Monday afternoon […...
ANKARA (AA) – Australian authorities have claimed that the hackers behind the recent massive data breach were in Russia and announced that they would approach Moscow for further action. Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw in a statement said this is a crime that has the potential to impact millions of Australians and damage a significant...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least five policemen were killed when a group of over 100 bandits stormed a security checkpoint in southern Pakistan on Sunday, police and local media reported. The incident took place in Obaro town located in a remote riverine area of Ronti in southern Sindh province. Ghotki district police chief Tanvir […]...
Addressing Pakistanis from the hospital, Imran Khan said he knew of a planned assassination attempt a day before it happened. Khan accused U.S. diplomat Donald Lu for threatening the Pakistani ambassador that the country will face difficulties if the former premier is not removed. Protesters across Pakistan burned tires and blocked traffic fol...
Paris, France (AFP): Iranian authorities have ordered an investigation into a video showing officers savagely beating a protester that rights groups said exposed the brutality of the crackdown on demonstrations sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death. The Islamic republic has been rocked by over six weeks of unrest following the death of Amini, 2...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Gunmen have kidnapped at least 21 children, most of them girls, working on a farm in northwestern Nigeria, police and local officials said on Wednesday. Gambo Isah, a police spokesperson, told Anadolu Agency that “18 young women and three young men” were taken away from a farm in Faskari, an area […]
