MOSCOW (AA) – Russia’s president on Thursday authorized the country’s attorney general to block foreign media from countries that do the same to Russian outlets. Amid international pushback over the ongoing war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin has signed a new law that gives the attorney general power to order outlets off the air i...
Abidjan, Ivory Coast – (AFP): Ivory Coast has called on Mali to release 49 of its soldiers “unjustly” detained at Bamako airport and accused by officials there of being mercenaries. None of the Ivorian soldiers detained were carrying weapons of war, said a statement from the Ivorian president’s office after an emergency...
‘WASHINGTON (AA) – Iran is moving rapidly to provide Russia with hundreds of its domestically-manufactured drones to bolster the Kremlin’s war effort against Ukraine, a senior Biden administration official has disclosed. Jake Sullivan, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, said the US has information suggesti...
LONDON (AA) – More than 50 detainees and unarmed men were killed by British troops in Afghanistan, according to newly obtained military reports and an investigation by the BBC. BBC Panorama program on Tuesday night looked into documents of operations by the Special Air Service (SAS) – a British elite unit used in special operations […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Egyptian authorities have said that Israel will examine reports of the mass burial of Egyptian soldiers during the 1967 Middle East war. Last week, Israeli media published accounts of people involved in the burial of dozens of Egyptian soldiers during the 1967 war in an unmarked mass grave west of Jerusalem. The […]
BELGRADE, Serbia / ANKARA (AA) – Masterminds of the Bosnian genocide of 1995- Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic- driven by blind hate and ethnic prejudice, carried out the most well-documented and widely known genocide and crime against humanity in Europe after World War II. Both faced charges for their role in the 1992-1995 Bosnian War ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ukraine has accused Russia of firing phosphorus bombs on Snake Island, according to media reports. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny said Russia carried out air strikes and dropped phosphorus bombs on the island, according to the Ukrainian national news agency, Ukrinform. “The leadership of the ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Turkish and US presidents agreed on “continued close consultations” between Washington and Ankara during a meeting in Madrid, the White House said on Wednesday. The meeting between Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Joe Biden took place on the margins of the NATO summit. The two leaders discussed Sweden and Finlan...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Denouncing the West’s push to forge military alliances in the Asia-Pacific region, China has told the UN Security Council that NATO’s expansion has “sowed the seed of conflict.” “NATO’s five eastward expansions after the Cold War have not only failed to make Europe securer, but also sowed the seed of conflict,” Ambassador [&hel...
MADRID (AA) – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has said that the alliance must diversify its energy suppliers as Russia uses energy “as a weapon.” “The war in Ukraine shows the danger of being too dependent on commodities from authoritarian regimes. The way Russia is using energy as a weapon of coercion highlights the need t...