Thousands of activists from Bangladesh’s main political opposition parties protested in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday. They demanded all cases against former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia be withdrawn. Demonstrators demanded Zia be allowed to run in general elections next year. Leaders and supporters of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party ur...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh paid a visit Thursday to Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank and was escorted by 30 foreign ambassadors and consuls after the Israeli army lifted a 21-day closure of the city. “We are in Nablus, accompanied by 30 ambassadors from around the world, to stress an [&hel...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN Security Council rejected a Russian drafted resolution Wednesday calling for an investigation into claims that the US and Ukraine carry out ”military biological activities” on Ukrainian territory. Only Russia and China voted in favor of the resolution, with the US, the UK and France voting against...
ANKARA/ TOKYO (AA) – North Korea launched three ballistic missiles in a single day, South Korea’s military said early Thursday. It said that one of the missiles was fired from the capital Pyongyang and appeared to be an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The missile landed in waters about 1,100 kilometers (684 miles) off Japan’s coast,...
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has announced that he will go to Egypt to attend the 2022 UN Climate Change Conference, also known as COP 27, reversing his previous decision to skip it. “There is no long-term prosperity without action on climate change,” Sunak said in a statement posted to Twitter. “There […...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia announced on Wednesday that it is returning to implementation of the Black Sea grain corridor deal reached this July. “Thanks to the participation of the UN and the support of Türkiye, we managed to get the necessary written guarantees from Ukraine regarding the grain deal,” the Defense Ministry said in a...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A US court has sentenced an American woman to 20 years in prison for forming and leading an all-female ISIS battalion to fight in Syria, the Justice Department announced. Allison Fluke-Ekren, 42, pleaded guilty in June and admitted to conspiring to provide material support or resources to “a foreign terrorist orga...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Canada plans to add 500,000 immigrants in 2025 to ensure the economic prosperity of the country, Immigration Minister Sean Fraser said Tuesday. That is on top of the 465,000 immigrants Canada expects to welcome next year and up from the 400,000 that arrived last year. Fraser said the numbers are necessary […...
MOSCOW (AA) – Developing ties between Moscow and Arab countries is in the interest of all sides, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said. “The world is witnessing serious political and economic change. The formation of a multipolar system of international relations is gaining momentum, which is based on the rules of equality, jus...
United Nations, United States (AFP): Fifty countries have signed onto a statement read during a UN debate that condemned the “severe and systematic” human rights violations in China’s Xinjiang region. “We are gravely concerned about the human rights situation in the People’s Republic of China, especially the ongoing hum...
