Bangladesh says it will not allow more Rohingya refugees into the country, citing 60,000 arrivals over the past two years. Home Affairs Adviser retired Lt. Gen. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury said Bangladesh no longer will allow any more Rohingya to enter under any circumstances. With more than 1.2 million Rohingya already in camps in Cox’s Bazar, [&...
ANKARA (AA) — NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has unveiled facts about the early universe, offering groundbreaking insights into the cosmos. JWST’s findings over the past three years span studies on the Solar System, the Milky Way, the first stars and galaxies formed after the Big Bang, exoplanets, and potential signs of life. Positio...
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to restore Alaska’s Mount Denali to its former name, Mount McKinley, honouring 19th-century President William McKinley. Addressing a crowd in Phoenix, Trump criticised the 2015 decision by the Obama administration to revert to the mountain’s Indigenous name, Denali. Trump called the renaming unfair to McK...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A body was found in the wheel well of a United Airlines flight from Chicago to Hawaii that departed on Christmas Eve. Authorities are investigating the grim discovery made on United Airlines Flight 202, which flew from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport to Maui’s Kahului Airport. United Airlines released a statement on Wednesday co...
Michael Anton, named by President-elect Donald Trump as director of policy planning at the State Department, faces backlash for past writings. Anton has been espousing white nationalist and Islamophobic views. In a 2016 essay, using the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus, Anton wrote the U.S. Constitution serves Americans alone, not immigrants or fo...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has decried the latest US sanctions on four local firms for their alleged involvement in the country’s ballistic missile program, asserting that the move has “no justification.” “The sanctions placed upon our National Development Complex (NDC) and other entities have no ju...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AA) – Greenland’s prime minister stated Monday that the Arctic territory “will never be for sale” following comments by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump expressing interest in owning the island. “Greenland is ours. We are not for sale and we will never be for sale,” Mute Egede told Danish newswire Ritzau. Trump said on [&...
The U.S. last week imposed new sanctions on Pakistan’s National Defense Complex and three Karachi-based companies: Affiliates International, Akhtar and Sons Private Limited, and Rockside Enterprise. Deputy National Security Adviser Jon Finer raised concerns about Islamabad’s intentions, citing its development of advanced missile technology. H...
A 1,500-year-old stone tablet inscribed with the Ten Commandments sold at Sotheby’s New York for $5.04 million. It has set a new record for biblical antiquities. Carved in Paleo-Hebrew script during the late Roman-Byzantine era, the tablet is the oldest surviving inscription of the commandments. Discovered in 1913 near Lydda, Israel, during r...
BOGOTA, Colombia (AA) – Panama’s President Jose Raul Mulino dismissed a threat from US President-elect Donald Trump to retake control of the Panama Canal if transit fees are not reduced, particularly for US vessels. Mulino said Sunday in a video he published on his X account that the canal belongs to Panama. “As president, I want to [&he...
