BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Ethnic Albanian Kosovars have expressed their opposition to Prime Minister Albin Kurti’s plan to establish the Union of Serbian Municipalities. A protest was staged in front of the Prime Minister’s Office in Pristina against the European Union’s proposal for the formation of the Union of Serbian ...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that Russia is concerned about the “escalation” around Iran. Lavrov criticized US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who said Washington was considering “military options to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.” The top Russian diplomat pointed out...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister Jeyhun Bayramov and his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, discussed the ongoing situation in the Lachin Corridor in a telephone call, according to the Azerbaijan foreign ministry. Bayramov and Lavrov discussed bilateral issues, measures to ensure peace and stability in the region and the cu...
ANKARA (AA) – Azerbaijan has censured Iran for trying “to prevent the attack on its embassy in Tehran from being widely exposed at the international level.” The Foreign Ministry in a statement said Baku has called for international condemnation and punishment of those behind the “terror attack,” as well as for the...
ANKARA (AA) – The US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) has called for law enforcement reform at all levels to stop dehumanization of Black people. The Council released a statement on Tuesday, saying that they welcomed the Memphis police department and local prosecutors’ relatively quick action to dismiss and charge the perpetrating...
TEHRAN (AA) – A news agency affiliated with Iran’s top security body says groups based in northern Iraq were behind the recent attack on a military complex in central Isfahan province. In a report on Wednesday, the Supreme National Security Council-affiliated ‘Nour News’ said the “dissident groups” collabora...
Sakoira, Niger (AFP): After fleeing the militants who threatened their remote village, Aichata Hassan had no idea that another mighty challenge lay ahead: proving to the authorities that her 12-year-old daughter existed. Like countless other children in Niger, Nadia has no birth certificate, which meant that when she arrived with the family in...
Bukhara, Uzbekistan (AFP): A journalist was among nearly two dozen people sentenced on Tuesday in Uzbekistan on charges related to fatal anti-regime protests in the former Soviet republic last year. Authorities have said 21 people died during the unrest, which was sparked by planned reforms that would have undermined the right to self-determin...
Peshawar, Pakistan (AFP): A suicide blast at a mosque inside a police headquarters in Pakistan that killed more than 90 people was a targeted revenge attack, a police chief has said. Between 300 and 400 policemen had gathered for afternoon prayers at the compound’s mosque on Monday in the provincial capital Peshawar when an entire [&hell...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisia’s main opposition coalition urged a united front against President Kais Saied after just 11.3 percent of Tunisians voted Sunday in a second-round poll for a toothless parliament in the politically divided nation. “Almost 90 percent of Tunisian voters ignored this piece of theatre and refused to be invo...