Conakry, Guinea — (AFP): Protests against Guinea’s ruling junta held in defiance of a protest ban have brought the capital Conakry to a standstill, with clashes breaking out in some neighbourhoods. The National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC), an influential coalition of political parties, trade unions and civil so...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A court in Bangladesh on Thursday sentenced six men to death for “committing crimes against humanity” in 1971. Five of the convicts were present for the sentencing in the capital Dhaka. One of the accused has died since the case was launched in November 2015. A three-member tribunal convicted the defendants...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran said Thursday it had arrested a spy network accused of working for Israel’s intelligence service Mossad. “The Iranian police have arrested the chief and members of an espionage group affiliated with the Zionist regime,” the Intelligence Organization of the Law Enforcement Command said in a statement cited by the state ...
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Opposition legislators in Nigeria’s Senate on Wednesday threatened to impeach President Muhammadu Buhari over increasing insecurity in parts of the country. Buhari has six weeks to “take stronger action and resolve this issue of insecurity,” Philip Aduda, a member of the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party, said at a...
Baghdad, Iraq – (AFP): Hundreds of supporters of powerful Iraqi cleric Moqtada Sadr danced and sang in parliament Wednesday after storming Baghdad’s high-security Green Zone in protest over a rival bloc’s nomination for prime minister. Police fired barrages of tear gas in a bid to stop the protesters from breaching the gates ...
Tunis, Tunisia – (AFP): Tunisia’s main opposition alliance on Tuesday accused President Kais Saied’s electoral board of falsifying turnout figures, saying his referendum on a new constitution had “failed.” Tunisians voted on Monday on a draft charter that would give the president unchecked powers, a year after Sai...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisians have approved a new constitution in a referendum, the head of the country’s electoral commission said Tuesday, citing preliminary results. Farouk Bouasker, president of the Independent High Authority for Elections, said 94.6% of the participants in the referendum voted “yes” and 5.4% voted R...
ANKARA (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said late Monday that he spoke by phone with the leaders of Azerbaijan and Armenia and called for progress towards peace and stability in the region amid a rapprochement between the two countries. Blinken on Twitter said he spoke with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev about the [&hellip...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Tuesday quashed the re-election of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s son, Hamza Shehbaz, as the chief minister of Punjab, the country’s largest province, local media reported. After a three-day hearing in the capital Islamabad, a three-judge bench declared Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, a joint...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – The Tunisian National Salvation Front on Tuesday called on President Kais Saied to step down and pave the way for early general elections in the country. The major opposition coalition said in a statement that Saied failed to “obtain popular endorsement for his coup project” and thus lost justification to rema...
