ISTANBUL (AA) — Australia has revealed the question to voters for a national referendum scheduled later this year to decide whether to recognize Indigenous people. Australians are to vote, “yes” or “no” on whether they approve a proposed law to “alter the Constitution to recognize the First Peoples of Australia by...
LONDON (AA) – A suspect has been charged with attempted murder following two separate attacks on two men who were set alight outside mosques in Birmingham and London. “A man has been charged with two counts of attempted murder following incidents in Birmingham and London in the last month. Mohammed Abubkr, aged 28, was remanded [&h...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – The African Union (AU) has appealed for nearly $90 million in funding for its peacekeeping mission in Somalia. In a statement, Bankole Adeoye, the AU commissioner for political affairs and peace who made the funding request, said the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) is providing crucial support to the Somal...
JERUSALEM (AA) – At least four Israeli protesters were arrested on Thursday as thousands rallied against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul plan, local media reported. Israel has seen mass protests over the past 12 weeks against the government’s judicial reform plan, seen by the opposition as an attempt to redu...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh has rejected a US report on the country’s human rights issues, extrajudicial killings, and democracy, calling it one-sided and questioning American police’s excessive use of force and killings of ordinary citizens. Talking to reporters in Dhaka on Wednesday, Bangladesh Information and Broadcastin...
LONDON (AA) – A judge in the UK on Wednesday launched an independent probe into allegations of dozens of summary killings by British troops in Afghanistan. Speaking to reporters in London, Lord Justice Haddon-Cave, the chair of the inquiry, issued a call for anyone with evidence to come forward. It is “critical” that those who [&he...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Senator Chris Van Hollen on Wednesday criticized an Israeli bill that would allow Israelis back into four West Bank settlements evacuated in 2005. The senator said the action, which rolled back an agreement reached more than 20 years ago to evacuate the settlements, was inconsistent with the obligations Israel had taken [&...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Iran have agreed to meet soon in preparation to reopen embassies and consulates of the two countries. Saudi top diplomat Faisal bin Farhan and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amir Abdollahian talked by phone late Tuesday, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said. “At the beginning of...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Biden administration will release a review of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan next month and will make it available to Congress, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday. “I am committed and determined to make that information available to Congress, and we will do that by mid-April,” Blinke...
JERUSALEM (AA) – An Israeli minister said Wednesday that the evacuated settlements in the Gaza Strip are part of Israel. In 2005, former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon evacuated Israeli settlements in Gaza along with four settlements in the northern West Bank as part of his plan for disengagement from the territory. But Israeli Minister of [&hell...
