ISLAMABAD / ISTANBUL (AA) – At least 26 people were killed and many others injured in a bomb explosion at Quetta city railway station in Pakistan’s Balochistan province early Saturday, police said. So far 26 people have died and 46 others are injured, Muhammad Akram, a local police official, told Anadolu over phone. Earlier, a [&he...
CAIRO (AA) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his Emirati counterpart Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed increasing efforts to establish a cease-fire in Gaza and Lebanon in a phone call on Saturday. Al Nahyan and Blinken exchanged views on the recent developments in the Middle East, particularly the humanitarian situation in Gaz...
LONDON (AA) – Finland’s Non-Discrimination Ombudsman has said that the country’s refugee quota plan is discriminatory on religious grounds. The assessment came after the government announced that it will reduce the number of refugees accepted from Muslim-majority countries while increasing the number from Christian countries. According t...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Unknown attackers shot dead two members of a government-funded civilian militia in the Jammu province of Indian-occupied Kashmir. Kuldeep Kumar and Nazir Ahmed were abducted from Kishtwar area by members of Kashmir Tigers pro-liberation outfit. The incident evoked condemnation from the region’s Lt. Gove...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A wave of violence erupted in Amsterdam when supporters of Israeli soccer club Maccabi Tel Aviv allegedly stormed through the city, tearing down Palestinian flags on private property and chanting incendiary slogans, according to reports. The incidents, which took place before and after Maccabi’s match against Ajax, sparke...
ANKARA (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump wants to pull American troops out of northern Syria instead of leaving them as “cannon fodder” if fighting breaks out between other parties, said his political ally Rober F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy, who endorsed the Republican candidate in Tuesday’s presidential election, said that Trump recently expresse...
WASHINGTON (AA) – American Muslim leaders who refrained from backing Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris say their decision was based on the current administration’s support for the “genocide” taking place in Gaza. Following Republican nominee Donald Trump’s victory in the Nov. 5 election, representatives from sev...
The Israeli military has dropped more than 85,000 tons of bombs inside Gaza since October 2023, according to the Palestinian Environment Quality Authority. The bombings include the indiscriminate use of white phosphorus munitions, prohibited under the U.N. Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. Palestinian officials told Wafa news agency ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has downplayed the significance of the US presidential election result, saying it “does not matter” who the US president is. Addressing reporters in Tehran, government spokesperson Fatemeh Mohajerani said that the “general policies” remain unchanged. Republican Donald Trump claimed victory in the Nov. 5 elections after...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has appointed Knesset member Gideon Saar as the foreign minister, replacing Israel Katz who became a defense minister. A hardliner, Saar takes the helm of Israeli diplomacy at a time when Tel Aviv presses ahead with its deadly genocidal wars on the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. Born [&hellip...
