COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AA) – A Danish television station apologized on Twitter over the weekend for airing derogatory comments comparing players on Morocco’s national football team and their families to a family of monkeys. TV 2 NEWS host Christian Høgh Andersen attempted to transition from a story featuring images of Moroccan players hugg...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Suspected militants have killed at least one security official after they took over a portion of a police station in northwest Pakistan, demanding a “safe passage” in exchange for the release of several personnel, officials and local media reported on Monday. A group of suspected militants detained at a cou...
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisians on Saturday overwhelmingly boycotted an election for a new parliament which will have virtually no authority following a power grab by President Kais Saied in the birthplace of the Arab Spring. Electoral board president Farouk Bouasker said that by close of polls at 6:00 pm (1700 GMT), just 8.8 percent of [&hell...
Buenos Aires, Argentina (AFP): Watching football icon Lionel Messi inspire Argentina to World Cup glory on Sunday made the economic suffering engulfing the country “worth it,” according to ecstatic fans. Fireworks cracked, car horns sounded and fans draped in the national blue and white colors sang, danced and waved flags. An estim...
ANKARA (AA) – Qatar on Sunday renewed its denial of involvement in any corruption case involving people linked to the European Parliament, saying a Belgian investigation threatens to harm relations. Four people were arrested by Belgian authorities as part of an investigation into allegations that Doha lavished them with cash and gifts to influ...
NEW DELHI (AA) – At least 70 people have died since consuming illicitly brewed homemade liquor in the eastern Indian state of Bihar on Tuesday, according to unconfirmed reports. Saran Civil Surgeon Dr. Sagar Dulal Sinha confirmed that 30 people have died as a result of drinking spurious liquor in the Saran district. Saran has […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Saudi Arabia has called for a swift investigation into the killing of an Irish peacekeeper in southern Lebanon. A soldier with the UN peace mission UNIFIL was killed and three others injured when their vehicle came under fire in southern Lebanon. Lebanese media said a problem occurred between local residents and a […]
Paris, France (AFP): Hundreds took to the streets Friday in Iran’s restive southeast, footage shared by human rights groups showed, beginning a fourth month of protests sparked by Mahsa Amini’s death. Protesters in Zahedan, the Sistan-Baluchistan provincial capital, chanted “Death to the dictator”, taking aim at supreme...
Maan, Jordan (AFP): Gunfire killed a senior Jordanian officer and wounded two other police officials in the country’s south, where protesters have taken to the streets for days against rising fuel prices, authorities said on Friday. Colonel Abdul Razzaq Dalabeh, the deputy police chief of Maan province, was shot in the head on Thursday w...
ANKARA (AA) – Libya on Friday rejected a Dec. 11 decision by Egypt to demarcate the two countries’ maritime borders. “This demarcation is unjust because it was unilaterally announced, it violates Libya’s territorial integrity and the principles of good faith and respect for sovereignty,” the Foreign Ministry said ...
