Peureulak, Indonesia (AFP): At least 184 Rohingya refugees, including many women and children, landed in Indonesia’s westernmost province on Monday, officials said, after they were dropped at sea by boat and made to swim ashore. Thousands of the mostly Muslim Rohingya, heavily persecuted in Myanmar, risk their lives each year on long and...
Ashgabat, Turkmenistan (AFP): Gas-rich Turkmenistan on Sunday held the first parliamentary polls since the ruling family tightened its iron grip on the Central Asian nation that does not tolerate political dissent or a free press. Polling stations closed at 7 pm (1400 GMT), according to the electoral commission, with turnout estimated at 91.12...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A suicide bomber blew himself up in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Monday, killing at least six civilians and injuring several others. The bomber was intercepted near “the security checkpoint at the Malik Asghar intersection of the second security zone of Kabul” before reaching his target, said Khalid Zardan, a police spokesma...
Wawonii, Indonesia (AFP): Three women with machetes stood guard at their farm hilltop on Indonesia’s Wawonii Island, directing their blades towards the nickel miners working in the forest clearing below. “I pointed the machete at their faces. I told them: ‘If you scratch this land, heads will fly, we will defend this land to ...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia should introduce a law to prohibit activities of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the country and make cooperation with the court a punishable offence, a top Russian lawmaker has said. “It is necessary to develop amendments banning any ICC activity on our territory, as well as penalties for any assistance [&hellip...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 19 people were killed in US airstrikes on military bases housing “Iranian militias” in eastern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Saturday. The UK-based group said the US airstrikes came after attacks on US military bases in eastern Syria. Five non-Syrians were among those killed in...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye on Saturday strongly condemned a “vile attack” on the Muslim holy book, the Quran, and a Turkish flag in Denmark. Denouncing the late Friday incident as a “hate crime,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Ankara will never accept such “vile actions being allowed under the guise of freedom of expression.” The […]...
BERLIN (AA) – A German Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday the latest talks between Iran and the E3 — Germany, France, UK — did not include efforts to resume stalled talks in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. It was “expressly not about negotiations for the JPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action). As we […]...
Ottawa, Canada (AFP): President Joe Biden said Friday after ordering air strikes on Syria that killed pro-Iran fighters that he is not seeking conflict with Iran. “Make no mistake, the United States does not seek conflict with Iran, but is prepared to act forcefully to protect our people,” he told a news conference during a [&helli...
ANKARA (AA) – The Indian parliament has disqualified Rahul Gandhi, a senior leader of India’s main opposition Congress party, a day after a local court in the western Indian state of Gujarat convicted Gandhi in the criminal defamation case against India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi. A notification issued by the Lok Sabha, or lowe...
