HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – The first person to stand trial in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots was found guilty Tuesday on all federal charges filed against him. The jury in Washington, DC took less than four hours to find 49-year-old Guy Reffitt of Wylie, Texas – a suburb 30 miles northeast of Dallas – guilty […]
GENEVA- The WHO head in Europe has said that 16 attacks on Ukrainian health facilities have been confirmed since Russia attacked it. “To date, we have 16 confirmed reports of attacks on health facilities in Ukraine, and more are being verified,” Hans Kluge told a news conference. “WHO strongly condemns these attacks on health...
TEL AVIV, Israel– Turkish and Israeli businesspeople are hoping the visit to Turkiye by Israel’s president will give a boost to already thriving trade ties. Isaac Herzog’s visit starting March 9 materialized at the invitation of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Ahead of the visit, Turkish and Israeli trade missions gathered in Tel Aviv ...
Organizations working with refugees have slammed French authorities for treating non-European refugees differently. At a time when Ukraine has re-focused attention on refugees, it’s important to remember…that people from many different countries are also here fleeing the most terrible conflicts and the fear of persecution. We should be welcomi...
KYIV, Ukraine- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said that Ukraine wants direct talks between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. “Putin is the one who makes the final decisions. We have long wanted a direct conversation,” Dmytro Kuleba said. Noting that Zelenskyy is “not afraid” of ...
WASHINGTON- Russia has become the world’s ‘most sanctioned country’ due to its war on Ukraine, according to recent data. Moscow has been subjected to 2,778 new sanctions in just under two weeks since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine, bringing the total to 5,532, according to the global sanctions mo...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran said late Tuesday that two members of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in a recent airstrike in Syria. In a statement, the IRGC’s public relations wing said the two military officials were killed in an airstrike Monday on the outskirts of Syria’s capital Damascus. The men have [&hell...
GENEVA – China has agreed to allow a UN visit to the Xinjiang region where it is accused of oppressing its Muslim minority. “I am pleased to announce that we have recently reached an agreement with the Government of China for a visit,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said at the 48th […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least four security personnel were killed and over two dozen injured on Tuesday in a suspected suicide bombing in southwestern Pakistan. The second such bombing in less than a week occurred in the remote Sibi district of Balochistan province, just 30 minutes after President Arif Alvi left the town following [&...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The EU is preparing to consider the membership applications of Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia, EU term president France said Tuesday. In recent years both Georgia and Ukraine have had Russian-backed separatists on their territory, with Russian troops crossing into Georgia in 2008 and into Ukraine in 2014 and now, during th...
