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PARIS (AA) – French prosecutors on Wednesday launched a preliminary investigation into the “profiling” of Muslims by a far-right website. Taha Bouhafs, a French journalist, stated on social media that the Paris Prosecutor’s Office has launched the investigation into the Fdesouche website that has reportedly labelled Mus...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has delivered more than half of the 90 howitzer artillery guns destined for Ukraine, with more on the way, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. Spokesman John Kirby told reporters that over 50 Ukrainian fighters completed training on the M777 howitzer weapons earlier this week, with another batch of troops expected ...
MOSCOW – Russia has destroyed large shipments of the Western weapons in Ukraine’s Zaporozhizhia region, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed. “High-precision long-range sea-based Kalibr missiles destroyed hangars with a large batch of foreign weapons and ammunition, supplied by the US and European countries for Ukrainian troops on the territor...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Algeria threatened Wednesday to cut off gas supplies to Spain if any of the gas winds up in a location other than specified by the contract. Spain’s Energy Ministry earlier confirmed that it planned to ship gas to Morocco but noted that none of that gas would be of Algerian origin. […]
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Commission has presented a new package to facilitate legal migration, in order to simplify residence and work permit rules for skilled workers. “Dealing with migration is not only about border checks, asylum procedures and returns, it is also about offering legal pathways for those who can come live and work ...
MOSCOW (AA) – Amid continued diplomatic fallout from the Ukraine war, Russia has declared three Norwegian diplomats persona non grata. The move was in response to Norway’s “unjustified” expulsion of three Russian diplomats on April 6, according to the Foreign Ministry. The ministry said it summoned Norwegian Ambassador Rune Resaland to hand ov...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday he hopes to reach an agreement with Ukraine diplomatically and that negotiations are underway and they do not reject them. Speaking ahead of his meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Putin said Russia strongly supports the principles on which the UN is based and in...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – The Russia-Ukraine war has disrupted wheat exports, driving wheat prices up by 60% in Africa, the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) said Tuesday, warning that the continent will lose up to $11 billion worth of food due to the conflict. “Already, the price of wheat has gone up about […]
BEIJING (AA) – China on Tuesday said no one wants the Russia-Ukraine conflict to turn into World War III. “No one wants to see a third world war break out,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters when asked about Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s comments on “a real threat of World War III.” […]...
ANKARA (AA) – Total global military spending rose 0.7% to $2.1 trillion in 2021, with the US, China, India, UK and Russia making up 65% of this, according to data released Tuesday by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). US expenditures fell 1.4% to $801 billion in 2021 compared to the previous year, but […...
