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PARIS (AA) – France’s Foreign Ministry on Friday refused to comment on the crash of a helicopter in northern Iraq that was carrying PKK members. The chopper, a Eurocopter AS350, crashed in Iraq’s Duhok region on Wednesday, and a day later Iraq’s Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) said some of those on board were members of […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev on Friday signed a law that outlines harsher punishments for torture and ill-treatment. The law tightens criminal liability for torture and expands the use and possibilities of audio and video recording during the investigation process to prevent illegal actions, the presidential press...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu is scheduled to visit Egypt on Saturday upon an invitation by his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry, Turkish authorities said on Friday. According to a statement by the Turkish Foreign Ministry, Cavusoglu and Shoukry will discuss all aspects of bilateral relations during the landma...
Niamey, Niger (AFP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Thursday offered new aid as he threw his support behind Niger on a rare visit, holding up the Western military partner and new democracy as a model in a region where Russia is making inroads. Blinken is the highest-ranking US official ever to visit the […]
Rabat, Morocco (AFP): Moroccan authorities have charged eight suspected collaborators of French insurance tycoon Jacques Bouthier in a sexual abuse and trafficking case, lawyers for the complainants said Thursday. Bouthier, 76 and one of France’s richest men, is being held in Paris on suspicion of child rape and trafficking. The case in ...
Tel Aviv, Israel (AFP): Israeli protesters returned to the streets on Thursday to rally against proposed judicial reforms, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a compromise plan touted by the country’s president. The reforms, several provisions of which have already been adopted by parliament, are “the end of democracy,...
ANKARA (AA) – Pakistani planes continue to airlift tents to Türkiye’s southern Adana province for quake victims. “On average, over 2,400 tents are being transported to Turkiye daily. Three flights carrying 1,200, 1,400, and 1,200 tents each have arrived at Türkiye’s Adana” on Wednesday, the Pakistani Embassy in Ankara said in...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye on Thursday commemorated the “illegitimate referendum” held on March 16 by Russia, and stressed that the Crimean Peninsula was “annexed in violation of international law.” In a statement, the Turkish Foreign Ministry reiterated its long-time policy against recognizing the illegal annexation o...
JOHANNESBURG / BLANTYRE, Malawi (AA) – The death toll from Tropical Cyclone Freddy in Southern Africa has surpassed 300, with Malawi recording the highest number of casualties. At least 225 people have been killed in Malawi and 707 others injured, according to authorities. Mozambique has reported at least 53 deaths in the Zambezia provin...
ANKARA (AA) – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rejected criticism of the AUKUS deal with the US and UK made by his country’s former Premier Paul Keating, saying the world has changed since the 1990s. Albanese said in an interview with a local Radio 3AW Melbourne that he does not want to get into […]
