ANKARA (AA) – A Turkish delegation will visit Russia’s capital next week for ‘technical talks’ ahead of a planned Turkish, Russian, Iranian, and Syrian foreign ministers’ meeting, the Türkiye’s foreign minister has said. “An offer came from the Russians to hold a meeting at the technical level in prepa...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Thirteen people from al-Shabaab and ISIS were executed by firing squads in Somalia’s northeastern semi-autonomous state of Puntland on Wednesday. The executions ordered by a military court took place around 8 a.m. local time in the cities of Galkayo, Garowe and the state’s commercial capital of Bosaso, simultane...
Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP): The UN Middle East peace envoy has urged Israel and the Palestinians to calm surging violence in the occupied West Bank, a day after the latest Israeli raid killed six people. “We are in the midst of a cycle of violence that must be stopped immediately,” Tor Wennesland said in a statement. […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Two Palestinians were wounded by Israeli fire when army forces dispersed a protest in the West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday, according to local medics. The violence erupted when Israeli forces intervened to disperse a Palestinian protest against an Israeli raid in Jenin city on Tuesday in which six Palestin...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The death toll from Tuesday’s powerful blast at a commercial building in Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka has risen to 19. The blast also wounded more than 100 people, including dozens with critical injuries. The rescue operation was still going on as a debris was piled up on the ground floor of the […]
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia’s main opposition bloc on Wednesday called for the release of political prisoners amid a deep crisis in the North African country. Supporters of the National Salvation Front (NSF) staged a protest in the capital Tunis to demand the release of critics of policies of President Kais Saied. Protesters held pictures [&...
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Special Representative for Afghanistan Roza Otunbayeva said Wednesday that under the Taliban, Afghanistan “remains the most repressive country in the world” when it comes to women’s rights. “The bans against women working, studying, traveling without a male companion, and even going to parks or bath...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US slapped new sanctions Wednesday on Iranian officials, including its army chief, and companies for alleged rights abuses, according to State Secretary Antony Blinken. “Today – on International Women’s Day – the United States is taking action in coordination with the European Union, United Kingdom, and Austra...
ANKARA (AA) – Ankara “strongly condemned” an anti-Türkiye activity by ringleaders and supporters of PKK in the European Parliament building, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. “It is unacceptable to allow such an activity that targets our country’s integrity, and serves the propaganda of a terrorist organiz...
Doha, Qatar (AFP): Qatar’s emir named his top diplomat as prime minister Tuesday and brought in a new interior minister in what observers called the completion of a changing of the guard in the wealthy Gulf state. The ruler’s office announced that Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani had accepted “the resignation” of prime m...
