BRUSSELS (AA) – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell will do “everything possible” to bring the Iran nuclear talks back on track and ensure full compliance with the treaty, an EU official said on Thursday. “This is the interest and the role of the coordinator (of the Iran nuclear deal) to do everything he can […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US hit a record-breaking number of drug overdose deaths last year, according to preliminary data by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released on Wednesday. The CDC’s provisional estimate of 107,622 overdose deaths represents a dramatic 15% increase from the previous record set in 2020. In a...
HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – A first-of-its-kind federal study of Native American boarding schools has identified at least 53 associated burial sites with 500 deaths reported so far, a number the US government believes could grow exponentially as the research continues. The report by the Interior Department pinpointed more than 400 schools desi...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Russia’s employment of hypersonic weapons as part of its ongoing military campaign against Ukraine has not fundamentally changed the conflict, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has said. Testifying alongside Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley, Austin said the Kremlin’s forces have used hypersonics “seve...
ISTANBUL – The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war is jeopardizing food security in low-income countries, especially in the Middle East and Africa, an expert said. Eren Gunhan Ulusoy, head of the International Association of Operative Millers (IAOM) Eurasia, said that some countries in Africa are requesting aid as they cannot find sufficient reso...
ANKARA (AA) – The Biden administration is pressing the Congress for the approval of the F-16 sale to Turkiye, Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. By asking the congressional leaders to approve the deal, the administration is setting up a showdown with the lawmakers, said the WSJ. According to the daily, Turkiye’s mediation efforts to [&...
ANKARA (AA) – A Palestinian official on Wednesday denied reports about receiving an Israeli request to launch a joint investigation into the death of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Abu Akleh, 51, was shot dead when she was covering an Israeli military raid in the West Bank city of Jenin Wednesday morning. Another […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – At least 22 Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces on Tuesday during a home demolition in occupied East Jerusalem, according to medics. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said its medics treated 16 Palestinians in Silwan neighborhood in the city this evening following clashes with Israeli soldiers. Six other Palestinian...
BERLIN – Neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists committed 21,964 crimes in Germany last year, the government has admitted. German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser presented the government’s report on politically motivated crimes at a news conference in Berlin. “Far-right is the biggest threat to our democracy and the biggest extremist threat ...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir – Sana Irshad Mattoo, 28, a Kashmiri woman photographer, has been awarded this year’s Pulitzer Prize in feature photography for her coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. Besides Mattoo, who contributes to Reuters as a multimedia journalist, three Reuters photojournalists- Adnan Abidi, Amit Dave and late Danish Si...
