ANKARA (AA): Türkiye is heading to a runoff vote on Sunday to elect the president after no candidate was able to reach the 50% threshold in the first round held on May 14. The voting will begin on Sunday at 8 a.m. local time (0500GMT) and end at 5 p.m. local time (1400GMT). More than […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA): Adiba Islam Ridhe, now 12, was only 2 years old when her father, a leader of the student wing of Bangladesh Nationalist Party, went missing. She says her heart aches to see fathers dropping her friends to school every morning. “I have been dreaming the same for the last decade,” she told Anadolu […]
ISLAMABAD (AA): Pakistani authorities handed over 33 civilians to the military for trial in military court over their alleged involvement in May 9 violent protests, the interior minister said Friday. Speaking to reporters in the capital Islamabad, Rana Sanaullah said that so far, 499 first information reports (FIRs) had been registered across ...
Lahore, Pakistan (AFP): Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan said Wednesday that senior leaders were being pressured into resigning from his party amid a crackdown, as a former cabinet minister became the latest to quit. Rights monitors said authorities have detained thousands of supporters of Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) p...
RABAT, Morocco (AA): Rival Libyan groups reached an agreement on long-awaited presidential and legislative elections in the country during a meeting in Morocco. The Libyan Joint Committee ‘6+6’, formed jointly by Libya’s House of Representatives and High Council for the preparation of electoral laws, has made an announcement ...
ISTANBUL (AA): The Pakistani government is mulling a ban on former Prime Minister Imran Khan-led Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the country’s defense minister has disclosed. Khawaja Asif told reporters in the capital Islamabad: “A decision has not been taken yet, but a review is surely underway,” according to the Dawn newspaper. The developme...
Nairobi, Kenya (AFP): The families of Tunisian opposition figures detained in a government crackdown filed a case with Africa’s human rights court on Wednesday seeking the immediate release of their loved ones. Since early February, the authorities in the North African country have arrested more than 20 political opponents and other pers...
KARACHI, Pakistan/ISTANBUL, Türkiye (AA): An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad on Tuesday granted bail to Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan in multiple cases. Khan, who has had more than 100 cases filed against him since being removed from power last year in April, traveled to the capital Islamabad on Tuesday to appear be...
Nouakchott, Mauritania GMT (AFP): The ruling party in Mauritania scored a comfortable victory in last week’s legislative and local elections, according to official results on Sunday, a litmus test for the veteran head of state ahead of next year’s presidential poll. The elections were the first since 2019, when President Mohamed Ou...
Lahore, Pakistan (AFP): Imran Khan says he has had “no dialogue” with Pakistan’s military since his campaign of defiance against the nation’s powerful military boiled over into deadly unrest last week. The opposition leader’s comments in a recent interview underscore the full-scale breakdown of relations between t...
