MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AA) – At least three people were killed and dozens went missing as terrorists opened fire on worshippers in two churches and some communities in Nigeria’s northwest Kaduna State, an official said on Sunday. Samuel Atuwa, Kaduna State commissioner for internal security and home affairs, said the terrorists on mot...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Pakistani army on Sunday claimed to have killed at least six suspected militants in a security operation in the southwestern Balochistan province. The suspected terrorists, who were killed in the mountainous Parom area of the Panjgur district, located 557 kilometers (346 miles) from the provincial capital Que...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pre-monsoon rains killed at least seven people, flooding large parts of Pakistan in the past 24 hours, officials and local media said on Sunday. Flashfloods washed away several bridges and roads, submerged farmlands, and knocked out power in many parts of the southwestern Balochistan province. Torrential downpour...
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AA) – Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak has said that he does not see any problems in exporting Russian grain to Türkiye. Novak said Russia has always been a large supplier of grain to Türkiye and plans to maintain this position. “We have always been a major supplier of grain to […]
Dakar, Senegal – (AFP): Clashes between youth and police left one dead in Senegal’s capital Dakar on Friday as officers blocked off access to the home of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko. Three opposition figures — Dethie Fall, Ahmet Aidara and Mame Diarra Fame — were also arrested, spokesman for Sonko’s PASTEF par...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – The UN refugee agency has called for urgent support for about 16,000 people — mostly women and children — in Burkina Faso, who have been driven out of their homes by a recent insurgent attack that left dozens dead in the country’s Sahel region. Since June 12, almost 16,000 Burkinabe have […]
Tangiers, Morocco – (AFP): Four women have pressed charges in Morocco against French insurance tycoon Jacques Bouthier, currently under arrest in Paris on charges of raping a minor, a rights group said Friday. Bouthier is accused of various acts of “people trafficking, sexual harassment and verbal and moral violence,” between...
ANKARA (AA) – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman will visit Türkiye on June 22, the Turkish president announced on Friday. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, after Friday prayer in Istanbul, told reporters that during the Saudi crown prince’s official visit to the capital Ankara on June 22, they will discuss ways to take bilateral relations...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is considering the possibility of forming an alternate government with opposition leader and former premier Benjamin Netanyahu, according to local media on Friday. Bennett met late Thursday with his political advisers, including Aron Shaviv in the headquarters of the Defense Ministry in T...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Al Jazeera network has published a photo of a bullet it said killed its correspondent in Palestine, Shireen Abu Akleh, while covering an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank. An investigation conducted by the media network and published on its website stated that “the green-tipped bullet was designed to...
