WASHINGTON (AA) – Iran sent Ethiopia armed drones in the summer of 2021 in violation of a standing UN Security Council resolution, the US State Department said on Tuesday. Spokesman Vedant Patel said the US informed the UN about the transfer, noting it was in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 2231, which endorsed the […]
QAMBAR SHAHDADKOT, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistani farmers’ cropland has been under waist-deep water for over a month — quashing hopes of producing ready-to-reap crops, including rice and wheat, and exacerbating fears of acute food shortage in the flood-hit country of 220 million. Drenching monsoon spells and apocalyptic floods have kill...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Serbian-Canadian director Boris Malagurski’s film ”Republika Srpska: The Struggle for Freedom” has met with strong criticism from the Bosnian diaspora, causing the film’s premiere throughout Europe to be canceled. The first reaction to the film came from the Institute for Research of Genocide Can...
WASHINGTON (AA) – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has said that China has become “more aggressive abroad,” but Washington and Beijing still need to cooperate to solve big problems. Blinken said “what we’ve seen in recent years is the emergence of clearly adversarial aspects to the relationship — competitive aspects...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia has officially stepped back from its earlier decision to recognize West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, according to media reports. Australian Foreign Ministry retained the bipartisan position that Australia “is committed to a two-state solution in which Israel and a future Palestinian state co‑exist, in peace and s...
GENEVA (AA) – Iranian security forces have reportedly killed 23 children, while hundreds more have been injured, detained, and tortured during recent peaceful protests, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child said on Monday. The UN agency said it “strongly condemns the grave violations of the rights of the child that are taking […]...
ANKARA (AA) – Some 71 million people have fallen into poverty due to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, according to the UN Development Program (UNDP). The impact of the war on food and energy prices is expected to increase the number of poor in the world. According to the UNDP report on the effects of the […]
Muslim Americans have expressed concerns about the appointment to an interfaith council of a senior member of an organization associated with a Hindu supremacist group. Chandru Acharya has been appointed to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) faith-based religious council in order to advise the US government on domestic is...
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Human rights group Amnesty International has urged the Lebanese authorities to stop their plan to return Syrian refugees to their country. “The Lebanese authorities are scaling up the so-called voluntary returns, a plan which has been in place for four years, when it is well established that Syrian refugees in Leba...
DADU, Pakistan (AA) – Flood victims returning to villages in Pakistan’s south are finding themselves having to rebuild their homes after they were flattened by last month’s devastating floods that submerged one-third of the country. Allah Bachayo Phanwar stands as a stark example. Located on the outskirts of Dadu district in ...
