WASHINGTON (AA) – US President Joe Biden has described as “horrifying and heartbreaking” the deaths that occurred on Tuesday of 50 migrants whose bodies were found inside a tractor-trailer in the state of Texas. “Our prayers are with those who lost their lives, their loved ones, as well as those still fighting for their lives. [&he...
BERLIN (AA) – Over 500 right-wing extremists are wanted in Germany, the country’s Interior Ministry said on Monday. In an answer to the Left Party’s parliamentary question, the ministry said as many as 568 far-right extremists, including 145 people who committed violent crimes, are sought by Germany as of March 31. At least 79 of [&helli...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Sudan’s army chief Gen. Abdul Fattah Al-Burhan said Monday the military will not tolerate the killing of its soldiers by Ethiopian forces. Addressing his forces in the disputed al-Fashaga border area, Al-Burhan said the Sudanese army will fully protect the Sudanese territories and people. “We don’t have a lot to sa...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – At least 30 people, including five Nigerians, were killed and several houses were torched in an ethnic attack in western Cameroon, multiple sources said on Monday. The attack took place between Friday and Sunday in the village of Mesaka in the Akwaya commune bordering Nigeria, according to a local church and [&hel...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Three Somali soldiers were killed and several others injured on Monday after their convoy ran over a landmine planted along the roadside in the country’s central region of Hiiraan, police said. The incident took place in Mataban, a town located 405 kilometers (251 miles) from the capital Mogadishu. Two journalis...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Two police officers and two assailants were killed when motorbike-riding gunmen opened fire at a police station in northern Benin on Sunday. The police station in the Dassari district near the border with Burkina Faso was attacked at 2 a.m. local time. Besides those killed, one officer was wounded, according to [&he...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A senior law enforcement official said Tuesday that police response to the school shooting last month in the US state of Texas was an “abject failure.” “There’s compelling evidence that the law enforcement response to the attack at Robb Elementary was an abject failure and antithetical to everything we...
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...
