HATFORD, Connecticut – U.S. President Joe Biden has called for stricter gun controls and expressed concern that shootings occur almost daily in the country. Biden was speaking at the National Safer Communities Summit in Connecticut. He said gun violence occurs even in areas that do not make the headlines. Data from the Gun Violence Archi...
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota – The U.S. Department of Justice has indicted the Minneapolis Police Department for racial discrimination. After a two-year investigation, the Justice Department found its officers using excessive force and batons. The investigation into the conduct of Minneapolis Police Department was triggered by the 2020 murder ...
TEL AVIV, Israel – Arab countries are among the major buyers of Israeli weapons. It was revealed that these countries bought $3 billion worth of weapons from Israeli arms manufacturers in 2022. The data presented by Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that exports to Arab states have increased significantly. It was disclosed that ...
ANKARA – Turkish drone manufacturer Baykar has secured a contract with the Kuwaiti government. The deal, valued at $367 million, involves the sale of Bayraktar TB2 unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs). Baykar and the Kuwaiti army jointly announced the agreement, marking another success for the company in expanding its international pr...
MEDFORD, Massachusetts – History books state that Asians did not arrive in America until the 19th century. However, new research has found that they reached the state of Oregon in the Pacific Northwest as early as 1587 along with Europeans. According to Diego Javier Luisis, assistant professor of history at Tufts University in Massachus...
NEW DELHI, India – Muslims in a northern Indian town have been forced to leave their homes and abandon their livelihoods following a warning by a Hindu group. According to reports, about a dozen families have fled Purola, a small town in the northern Indian district of Uttarkashi in Uttarakhand state. Notices were pasted on […]
NEW YORK – A U.N. agency has announced plans to cut food aid to Syria, saying there are insufficient funds. The U.N.’s World Food Program (WFP) said it will reduce aid to 2.5 million Syrians who rely on the organization for their daily subsistence. A total of 5.5 million Syrians are dependent on aid. Officials […]
WASHINGTON – Two days before Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington, two human rights groups have announced the screening of a BBC documentary. The documentary looks at Modi’s leadership during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Prominent groups Human Rights Watch and Amnesty...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Saudi Arabia Tuesday announced to co-chair a conference to provide humanitarian response to the conflict-torn Sudan next week. The Saudi Foreign Ministry said the high-level conference will be held on June 19 “to pledge support for humanitarian response in Sudan and the region.” The conference will be jointly led by Qata...
NEW YORK – The U.N. Tuesday accused Myanmar authorities of paralyzing the life-saving assistance to the cyclone-hit areas of the country. Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) urged military rulers to allow aid workers to distribute and transport aid. Briefing reporters, Laerke ...
