UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The United Nations has called for elections to break the current impasse in Libya following clashes between two rival militias in the capital Tripoli which claimed dozens of lives. ”The ongoing stalemate and continued delays in implementing the electoral process pose a growing threat to security in and around ...
LONDON (AA) – A Swedish-Somali politician has left the ruling Social Democrats party in protest over recent remarks by Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson, saying the party has become too xenophobic. Saida Hussein Moge criticized Andersson over comments she made last week where she said Sweden should not have any “Somalitowns.” The Social...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh accused Myanmar’s military of firing into its territory from a gunship helicopter on Wednesday, although no damage or casualties were reported. The government has been raising the issue of shelling by the neighboring country for several days. On Monday, the Foreign Ministry summoned Myanmar’s Amb...
Bagram, Afghanistan (AFP): For years, the sprawling military base at Bagram, just north of Kabul, was a potent symbol of the United States’ two decades of war in Afghanistan. But weeks before Washington officially ended its military presence in Afghanistan last August, US troops left the airbase in the dead of night. Today, the military ...
Saidu Sharif, Pakistan (AFP): Army and government helicopter missions are rescuing hundreds of panicked tourists and locals stranded in the Swat valley of Pakistan after the unrelenting floods of the past week. “It feels like I have got a second life,” said tourist Yasmin Akram, a diabetic who was airlifted to Saidu Sharif’s ...
Washington, United States (AFP): President Joe Biden faced intense criticism for the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan but one year later both he and the United States have largely turned the page, even as the war-ravaged country still faces mounting challenges. Biden put out a written statement to mourn the 13 US soldiers killed on August [...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): The survivors of an American drone strike that killed 10 members of an Afghan family are looking to be evacuated to the US for a future far from home. On August 29, 2021, a drone strike killed Aimal Ahmadi’s three-year-old daughter Malika, his brother Ezmarai, and several of his nephews and nieces […]
Dhaka, Bangladesh (AFP): Bangladesh’s government is in “denial” about systematic abductions carried out by security forces, families of missing relatives said Tuesday, during a protest demanding a United Nations probe into enforced disappearances. Rights groups accuse security forces of unlawfully killing around 2,500 people ...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel’s High Court rejected a second petition on Tuesday to release a Palestinian detainee on hunger strike for nearly six months to protest his indefinite detention without trial or charge. Khalil Awawdeh, 40, was detained by Israeli forces in December and placed in custody under Israel’s policy of administrative detention. His...
Nablus, Palestinian Territories (AFP): Israel has alleged that Palestinians opened fire at Jews who snuck into an occupied West Bank city to visit a shrine, wounding two of them, the Israeli army and medical sources said Tuesday. The Israelis were headed to Joseph’s Tomb, believed to be the last resting place of the biblical patriarch [&...
