ANKARA (AA) – Australia’s new prime minister has said that his government has no plans to change the country’s refugee policy and that asylum seekers arriving by boat would not be allowed to become residents. According to an official statement, Anthony Albanese has said that Australia’s ‘Operation Sovereign Border...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Due to a sharp decline in fundraising campaigns and a dysfunctional process of repatriation, Rohingya refugees camping in Bangladesh say they fear a shortage of food and an impact on their livelihoods, education, and other activities. Khin Maung, a Rohingya youth in the Cox’s Bazar refugee camp, lamented that the world...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Al Jazeera network has published a photo of a bullet it said killed its correspondent in Palestine, Shireen Abu Akleh, while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank. An investigation conducted by the media network and published on its website stated that “the green-tipped bullet was designed to...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – A 92-year-old Roman Catholic priest has been charged in connection with a decade-long sexual abuse investigation into a former Indian Residential School, Manitoba police said at a press conference Friday. Retired father Arthur Masse is accused of sexually abusing a 10-year-old girl at the former Fort Alexander resi...
KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – At least two people were killed and seven others injured when a Sikh temple in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul was hit by a bomb blast and gunfire on Saturday, an Afghan official said. The attack targeted the temple in the Karte Parwan region early in the morning, said Abdul Nafi Takor, a […]
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – More than 20 people, including those who had been displaced from their homes, were killed on Sunday near Menaka in northeastern Mali, a pro-government armed group said Wednesday. “Armed men broke into a camp not far from the locality of Izingaz, commune of Ihinita, circle of Tidermene, Menaka region, on June...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – The death toll from an attack by insurgents in Burkina Faso’s northern town of Seytenga has risen to 86 as seven more bodies have been found, local authorities said Wednesday. “The intervention units deployed in the commune of Seytenga since the tragedy occurred have discovered seven new lifeless bodies betw...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA): The death toll from an armed attack by insurgents in the northern Burkina Faso town of Seytenga rose to 79, as 29 more bodies were found on Tuesday, an official said. The insurgents had stormed the town of Seytenga and attacked civilians on the night of June 11-12, said Wendkouni Joel Lionel […]
Seytenga, Burkina Faso (AA/AFP): At least 50 civilians died in an attack by suspected extremists in northern Burkina Faso, government spokesman Lionel Bilgo said Monday, in one of the bloodiest clashes since a military coup in January. The village of Seytenga was attacked overnight Saturday, Bilgo said, adding that the toll “may rise....
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Over 50 wedding guests were abducted by bandits on a road in Nigeria northwest’s Zamfara State, but later about 20 escaped, said a local official. The victims, most of them phone accessories traders, were returning from a wedding party of one of their colleague when bandits ambushed their buses along the [&helli...
