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GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – A European human rights organization as well as Palestinian factions and institutions have called for international pressure to prevent Israel from passing a death penalty bill against Palestinian prisoners convicted of killing Israelis. The Israeli parliament, Knesset, approved Wednesday the first reading of the co...
Crotone, Italy (AFP): Survivors of a shipwreck off southern Italy wept over their dead, as relatives of some of the 67 people who drowned arrived from other countries to claim their loved ones. Emergency workers continue to search for the dead, with the body of a five-year-old boy the latest to be recovered on Wednesday […]
Onitsha, Nigeria (AFP): Just hours after Nigeria’s president-elect Bola Tinubu raised his hand in victory, Sam Nwajaku could not hide his anger. “They cheated,” said the 38-year-old painter, seated at a kiosk in Onitsha, in southeastern Nigeria, a stronghold of opposition candidate Peter Obi. “We see the same old politi...
JOHANNESBURG (AA) – The US and the UK have congratulated Bola Tinubu on his victory in Nigeria’s Feb. 25 presidential election, despite lingering uncertainty over the win as the opposition plans to mount a legal challenge. “We call on all parties, candidates, and supporters to refrain from violence or inflammatory rhetoric at this critical tim...
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s main opposition party on Thursday said it intends to challenge the results of the Feb. 25 presidential election in court. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) denounced the results as a “grave injustice.” PDP’s Atiku Abubakar came second in the race for president with an official vote tally of 6.9 million, [&h...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar on Thursday urgently appealed for countries to reverse “the shameful, catastrophic cuts” to food rations for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. “These rations cuts are a stain on the conscience of the international community,” said Tom Andrews, speak...
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): Supermarkets in Lebanon started pricing items in US dollars on Wednesday instead of the nose-diving local currency, after a government announcement allowing the practice in a country heavily reliant on imports. Since late 2019, Lebanon has been facing an economic crisis that has seen poverty rates climb to reach more tha...
Bab al-Hawa, Syria (AFP): World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Wednesday urged the international community to help earthquake-hit northwest Syria, on his first ever visit to rebel-held areas of the war-ravaged country. “The people of northwest Syria need the assistance of the international community to recover an...
Conakry, Guinea (AFP): The West African states of Guinea and Ivory Coast are repatriating hundreds of their citizens from Tunisia, officials said Wednesday, after Tunisian President Kais Saied triggered a storm by accusing sub-Saharan migrants of crime. “The most urgent thing is to save lives, to prevent injuries,” said Ivorian gov...
Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP): Israeli forces killed Wednesday a Palestinian man during a raid in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said. Mahmoud Jamal Hassan Hamdan, 22, died from “serious wounds inflicted by bullets of the occupation (Israel)” during the raid, a statement from the Palestinian health ministry sa...
