Paris, France (AFP): On April 24, 2013, a clothing factory complex near Bangladesh’s capital collapsed, killing at least 1,138 workers. The disaster at Rana Plaza outside Dhaka was one of the world’s worst industrial tragedies and highlighted the failure of many top Western fashion brands to protect workers in the poorer countries ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Crypto money exchange Thodex’s founder Faruk Fatih Ozer, who was extradited to Türkiye by the Albanian Ministry of Justice, was brought to Istanbul on Thursday. The plane carrying Ozer, whose extradition to Türkiye was decided by the Durres Court of Appeals in Albania, took off from the Albanian capital Tirana in th...
Sapporo, Japan (AFP): The G7 pledged on Sunday to quit fossil fuels faster and urged other countries to follow suit, but failed to agree to any new deadlines on ending polluting power sources like coal. The language reflects the depth of disagreements among the allies on the balance between climate action and energy security, with […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has confirmed to IMF its support of $1 billion to Pakistan, the Pakistani finance minister has claimed. “State Bank of Pakistan is now engaged for needful documentation for taking the said deposit from UAE authorities,” Ishaq Dar tweeted. The minister also claimed that the centra...
KAIROUAN, Tunis (AA) – A Tunisian footballer lost his life a few days after setting himself on fire in front of a police station in the northern Kairouan province, local media reported. Nizar al-Issawi, 35, died at a hospital late Thursday due to third-degree burns he sustained after pouring gasoline on his body and setting […]
Medjez El Bab, Tunisia (AFP): A severe drought in North Africa has left Tunisian farmers bracing for a catastrophically poor harvest, imperilling food security in the cash-strapped country. At a time when the global cereals market has been disrupted by the Ukraine war, Tunisia’s domestic grain production has also withered under a lack of...
BUENOS AIRES (AA) – Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva has signaled his intent to move away from the US-dollar dependence in international trade. “Why are all the countries obliged to do their trade in dollars?” said Lula while attending the inauguration ceremony of President Dilma Rousseff at the New Development Bank...
Mogadishu, Somalia (AFP): Visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed Tuesday for “massive” international support for Somalia as it battles a devastating drought and a grinding insurgency. Guterres, who arrived in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu earlier on Tuesday, described his trip as a visit of “solidarity.&#...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Mohammad Ibrahim Khalil was haggling with a vendor at a floating iftar bazaar in old Dhaka, where he usually buys food items popular among Bangladeshis during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. “We have been buying foods from Chawkbazar Iftar market for generations to break our fast during Ramadan,” Khalil,...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Saudi Arabia has signed a $240 million loan agreement with Pakistan to support the Mohmand Dam project in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The agreement was signed at a ceremony in the capital Islamabad and attended by Saudi Ambassador to Pakistan Nawaf bin Said Al-Malki and senior officials from the Ministry of Econo...
