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ISTANBUL (AA) – Ukraine is preparing to take official steps to prove that Russia’s presence on the UN Security Council is “illegal” and to have it removed from the body, Kyiv has announced. “Ukraine is now preparing for official steps that will prove Russia’s illegal presence in the UN Security Council and l...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Knesset (Israel’s parliament) has approved a controversial bill in its first reading to allow the upcoming national security minister to extend his powers to the police. Far-right politician Itamar Ben-Gvir, the leader of the Jewish Strength Party, is set to become the national security minister in the upcoming government ...
ANKARA (AA) – A total of 547 detainees have died in Syrian regime’s detention centers in 2022, according to a UK-based human rights group. “The Syrian regime has registered thousands of forcibly disappeared persons as dead, including prominent activists from the popular uprising against its rule,” the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) sai...
HOUSTON, United States (AA) – Millions of Americans are traveling for the holidays to see family only to find out that in less than four hours they want to take a break from their loved ones, according to a Motel 6 survey released Tuesday. The survey polled 2,000 adults traveling to visit family for the […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia has accused the UN high commissioner for human rights of being “cynical and unprincipled” over his position on footage showing Russian prisoners of war being shot in Ukraine. Commissioner Volker Turk only reacted to the incident after Western media outlets “made some fuss,” Russian deputy Fore...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The delivery of a US-made Patriot air defense system to Ukraine will “significantly” bolster Kyiv’s ability to defend its skies amid relentless Russian attacks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday. Speaking at the White House alongside President Joe Biden, Zelenskyy said the system i...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian on Wednesday said the parties to the 2015 nuclear deal are “returning to realism” and that Tehran will take a final step if its “red lines are respected.” Amir-Abdollahian made the remarks in Jordan’s capital Amman while boarding a flight back to Tehran after attending the [&...
LAGOS, Nigeria (AA) – Authorities confirmed Wednesday that several people were killed by gunmen in three days of attacks on two communities in Nigeria’s northwestern Kaduna State. The police spokesman for Kaduna State, Muhammed Jalige, said in a statement that the chief of police visited Malagum and Sokwong in Kagoro, Kaura Local G...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – The EU ambassadors have adopted a compromise text on visa liberalization for Kosovo ahead of the final adoption by the EU Council, the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU said. “The Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU brings Kosovo one step further on its European path,” it […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – Scores of Israeli settlers forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem on Wednesday to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, according to a Palestinian agency. In a statement, the Jordan-run Jerusalem Islamic Endowment Department said 159 settlers entered the flash-point site in groups thro...
