Astana, Kazakhstan (AFP): Kazakhstan held snap parliamentary elections Sunday as the leader of the Central Asian country pushes political reforms that critics say are designed to consolidate power one year after deadly protests. Polling stations opened at 7:00 am (0100 GMT), according to AFP reporters in the capital Astana and Almaty, Kazakhst...
Lagos, Nigeria (AFP): Nigerians were voting in local elections Saturday, just weeks after the ruling party won a presidential poll that the two main opposition parties alleged was marred by fraud. Africa’s most populous nation is electing hundreds of state assembly lawmakers and over two dozens governors, with a particularly competitive ...
ANKARA (AA) – The US has denied providing helicopter piloting training to SDF partners in Syria after a helicopter carrying PKK members crashed in northern Iraq. Following the crash of a helicopter carrying PKK members in northern Iraq, the questions of how the helicopter ended up in the hands of the PKK and the source […]
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Ten million children living in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, twice as many as in 2020 due to intensifying conflicts, UNICEF warned Friday. “Armed conflict is increasingly affecting children, who are victims of intensified military clashes or targeted by non-state...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – A UN official said on Thursday that the situation is “absolutely apocalyptic” in some areas of the quake-hit Türkiye and the needs are “tremendous,” calling on the international community to continue to provide support. Nine million people were directly affected by the earthquakes and are goi...
Jerusalem, Undefined (AFP): Israel’s army on Wednesday announced it killed a suspect wearing an explosive belt in the country’s north earlier this week, suggesting the possible involvement of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement. “We are examining a possibility of the Hezbollah” of being involved with the suspected attack...
RIYADH (AA) – Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Al-Jadaan has said that the Kingdom’s investments in Iran could happen quickly. Iran and Saudi Arabia agreed last week to resume ties after officials of the two countries met in China. “Saudi investments have an opportunity in Iran,” Al-Jadaan said in his speech during the International Finan...
CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand (AA) – Families and survivors of the 2019 terrorist attack on the Christchurch mosque in New Zealand recalled the shooting and honored their loved ones on the 4th anniversary of the assault. On March 15, 2019, Brenton Tarrant, a 28-year-old Australian white supremacist terrorist killed 51 people and injured 40 m...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): Thousands of supporters of Senegalese opposition leader Ousmane Sonko rallied in Dakar on Tuesday as the country prepares for elections in less than a year. Tensions are rising ahead of the vote in a country seen as a democratic mainstay in the region, amid speculation that President Macky Sall could bypass the […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Deputy chief of Iran’s nuclear agency has hailed UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi’s recent visit as “fruitful”, stressing that Iran took a “step forward” to resolve outstanding issues. Grossi visited the Iranian capital earlier this month to resolve issues that have hampered cooperation between the two sides an...
