ANKARA (AA) – The US Embassy in Baghdad has called on Iraq’s political rivals to abstain from violence amid tension following the nomination of a new prime minister. In a statement, the embassy said it is “closely monitoring the unrest in Baghdad … (and) concerned by reports of violence.” It renewed calls for Iraqi parties [&...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Fresh demonstrations erupted in Sudan on Sunday to demand the restoration of civilian rule in the country. Thousands of protesters rallied in the capital Khartoum, with demonstrators blocking a number of roads with barricades and burning tyres. Security forces shut roads leading to the Presidential Palace and the headqua...
Moscow, Russia – (AFP): The Kremlin has supported China’s stance on Taiwan after Chinese President Xi Jinping warned US leader Joe Biden not to “play with fire” over the self-ruled island. “Certainly we are in solidarity,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. “We respect China’s sovere...
ANKARA (AA) – Russia has said that at least 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 75 others wounded in an overnight attack by Ukraine at a pre-trial detention center in the Russia-controlled territory of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. A majority of those killed were captured at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol city, […]
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Al-Shabaab militants launched a fresh attack on a Somali town located near the border with Ethiopia on Friday. The attacks took place in the town of Aato in Bokol region near Ethiopia’s Somali region, where Liyu police, a counterinsurgency force, operates. Al-Shabaab rebels later claimed responsibility for...
ANKARA (AA) – The European Union’s borders must remain open to asylum seekers, Germany’s foreign minister said in Greece on Friday, a pointed remark that increases pressure on Athens over its widely criticized policy of deadly and illegal migrant pushbacks. Annalena Baerbock’s remarks came at a joint press conference with her Greek counterpart...
RAMALLAH (AA) – Palestine’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh met Germany’s Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office Tobias Lindner in Ramallah on Thursday. Shtayyeh urged Germany to recognize the state of Palestine in line with Berlin’s “belief in the option of the two-state solution and the importance of preserving it,” according to a ...
ANKARA (AA) – Russia supports the processes for global peace and order based on international law, true multilateralism, and the central role of the UN, the Russian top diplomat said on Thursday. Speaking on the sidelines of a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Foreign Ministers’ Council along with his Chinese counterpart W...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Two Indigenous women unfurled a large banner during a mass on Thursday in Quebec, asking Pope Francis to “rescind the doctrine.” The banner referred to the Doctrine of Discovery, a contentious 15th Century papal edict that allowed explorers to take land from non-Christian countries with impunity. Some of Cana...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China’s President Xi Jinping has warned his US counterpart “not to play with fire” on Taiwan, as he held a “candid” phone conversation with US President Joe Biden on bilateral relations. “Those who play with fire will perish by it,” Xi told Biden regarding Taiwan, according to a statement posted on the [&helli...
