GENEVA (AA) – Over the last week, COVID-19 cases have risen in four of the six World Health Organization regions, the WHO chief said Tuesday, airing concern about the increasing difficulty in learning how the virus is mutating, along with the need for more information from North Korea. WHO Director-General Tedros Ghebreyesus said that du...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Turkiye wants to resolve issues with the US, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday. Speaking in an address at the Turkevi Center in New York, Cavusoglu recalled the “important” meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his US counterpart Joe Biden in Rome last year. “We have e...
MOGADISHU, Somalia – Somalia’s president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, while giving his first interview to the international media, has said that Somalia is facing a security challenge and the country has been struggling to provide security for its citizens. “The most important challenging issue that exists today in Somalia is the s...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli police attacked the funeral procession for a Palestinian youth in occupied East Jerusalem Monday evening, according to witnesses. Clashes erupted between Israeli forces and Palestinian mourners near the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex during the funeral of a 23-year-old youth killed by Israeli gunfire last month, the...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden has reauthorized the deployment of US forces to Somalia, the White House announced on Monday in a major policy reversal conducted at the Pentagon’s request. Former US President Donald Trump pulled roughly 700 American troops out from the east African country during the final month of his presid...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – Authorities in Southern California say a man who opened fire at a church on Sunday, killing one and injuring five others, was a Chinese immigrant motivated by hate against Taiwanese people. Police say 68-year-old David Chou entered the Taiwanese Presbyterian Church in the city of Laguna Woods, 46 miles (74 kilometer...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – A total of 264 Ukrainian soldiers, including 53 seriously wounded personnel, have been evacuated from the besieged Azovstal steel plant in the port city of Mariupol, the Ukrainian General Staff said early Tuesday. The garrison in Mariupol has completed its designated combat mission and the Supreme Military Command ha...
SANAA, Yemen (AA/AFP) – The first commercial flight in six years left Houthi-held Sanaa Airport on Monday to the Jordanian capital, Amman. An airport source said 130 passengers were aboard the plane of flag carrier Yemenia, mostly patients seeking treatment in Jordan. “This is the first commercial flight to take off from Sanaa Airport in [&hel...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian group Hamas has called for “resisting” Israeli plans to build more than 4,000 settlement units in the occupied West Bank. Last week, Israeli authorities approved the construction of more than 4,000 settlement units, in a move that drew wide condemnations from several countries around the world. In a stat...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinians staged a rally in the Gaza Strip on Sunday to commemorate the Nakba Day, which marks the creation of the state of Israel in historical Palestine. Observed on May 15 annually, the Nakba Day, or the Catastrophe Day, marks the 1948 forced expulsion of nearly 800,000 Palestinians from their […]
