RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian detainees in Israeli jails have launched a disobedience campaign to protest Israeli restrictions. “The move comes in response to restrictions recommended by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir against them,” the Palestinian Prisoner Society and the Commission for Detainees and Ex-detainees ...
New Delhi, India — AFP Indian tax authorities raided the BBC’s New Delhi and Mumbai offices on Tuesday, weeks after the broadcaster aired a documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s actions during deadly sectarian riots in 2002. Police sealed off the New Delhi office, which occupies two floors, and half a dozen officers w...
Brussels, Belgium — AFP NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday it was important Sweden and Finland joined NATO as soon as possible, but ratifying them at the same time was not the “main question”. Parliaments in all 30 members of the military alliance must formally ratify Finland and Sweden before they can be admitted. Turk...
ANKARA (AA) – At least 20,665 people died and 80,088 others were injured in two strong earthquakes that jolted southern Türkiye on Monday, the country’s disaster agency said on Saturday. The magnitude 7.7 and 7.6 earthquakes, centered in Kahramanmaras province, affected more than 13 million people across 10 provinces, including Hatay, Ma...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The United Nations humanitarian partners in Somalia and its government have sought $2.6 billion to assist millions of people in the drought-hit Horn of Africa country. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) has estimated that 8.25 million people — nearly half of Somalia’s popul...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Mehbooba Mufti has been detained in the Indian capital New Delhi for protesting against the Indian occupied Jammu and Kashmir administration’s anti-encroachment drive in the valley. At the protest site, Mufti said: “Jammu and Kashmir has been turned into Afghanistan by the Bharatiya J...
Jindayris, Syria (AFP): Extended family members pulled a newborn baby alive from the rubble of a home in northern Syria, after finding her still tied by her umbilical cord to her mother, who died in Monday’s massive quake, a relative said. The infant is the sole survivor of her immediate family, the rest of whom […]
Bamako, Mali (AFP): Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has pledged assistance to West African states battling insurgency as Moscow seeks to expand its influence on a continent in a diplomatic tug-of-war between global powers. Lavrov hailed the alliance that has been forged between Moscow and Bamako in fighting “extremists” on h...
PARIS (AA) – French magazine Charlie Hebdo has drawn criticism from Parisians with a cartoon it published mocking Türkiye after the country was hit by two deadly earthquakes on Monday. The cartoon, posted on Twitter under the heading “cartoon of the day,” shows buildings near collapse and lying in rubble, a flipped-over car, and pi...
LONDON (AA) – World Health Organization (WHO) has declared the earthquakes in Türkiye and Syria a “grade three emergency” — with a “critical 48 hour window” to save people who are trapped. WHO Regional Director Hans Kluge said that they are channeling all resources to these two countries, saying the “k...
