Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP): Pakistan police officers say they have been “thrown to the beasts” in their battle against rising militancy after a blast at a city headquarters killed dozens of their colleagues. A suicide bomber wearing a police uniform infiltrated the heavily guarded compound in Peshawar on Monday and blew himself up du...
New Delhi, India (AFP): An Indian journalist held in custody for more than two years without trial walked free on Thursday after being granted bail in a money laundering case. Siddique Kappan was arrested in October 2020 in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, where he had travelled to report on a high-profile gang rape […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh has scaled up its efforts to prevent any of the 69 US-sanctioned Russian ships from entering its territory, the Foreign Ministry stated on Friday. The Mercantile Marine Office of Bangladesh, located in the country’s main port city of Chattogram, issued a circular addressing the International Maritime Organiz...
ANKARA (AA) – Criticizing the recent closure of some Western consulates in Istanbul, Türkiye’s top diplomat has called the move “deliberate.” He added that the countries involved had not shared any information about what they called “security reasons.” “We think this was deliberate,” said Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu a...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN human rights chief on Friday urged an end to the “illogical” escalation in Palestine and Israel which is claiming human lives. “Rather than doubling down on failed approaches of violence and coercion that have singularly failed in the past, I urge everyone involved to step out of the illogic of […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken has postponed his trip to China after the discovery of a Chinese “surveillance” balloon over US airspace, two State Department officials confirmed on Friday. China has since issued a mea culpa for the incident, saying the aircraft is a “civilian airship used for resear...
Khartoum, Sudan (AFP): Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan hosted Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, in the first official visit by a top Israeli diplomat to Khartoum, Sudanese authorities said. Sudan in January 2021 formally agreed to normalise relations with Israel in a quid pro quo for the United States removing it from its lis...
NEW DELHI (AA) – A top Indian court has issued a notice to the government in response to petitions challenging the ban on the screening of a BBC documentary series about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Two separate petitions filed with the Supreme Court of India by journalists, parliamentarians and lawyers challenged the government’...
ANKARA (AA) – France and Israel have vowed to cooperate against the common threat from Iran as leaders of the two countries met in Paris. French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday for a dinner meeting in the Elysee Palace, where they discussed bilateral ties, as well as Iran’s nuclear...
BERLIN (AA) – Berlin Justice Senator Lena Kreck of the Left Party wants to change the so-called neutrality law, which blanketly bans female teachers from wearing headscarves, as soon as possible. “The fact that criticism of the constitutionality of Berlin’s neutrality law is justified has now also been confirmed by the Federa...
