WASHINGTON (AA) – NATO will address Türkiye’s concerns about Sweden and Finland’s membership bids, the alliance’s chief said Thursday. “When an ally, Turkey, rises concerns, then we have to do what we always do in NATO and that is to sit down, address those concerns and then find a united way forward,” Jens ...
Tunis, Tunisia – AFP Tunisian President Kais Saied on Thursday sacked 57 judges accused of corruption and other crimes, after passing a new law strengthening his grip on the judiciary. Saied, who has steadily extended his powers since he sacked the government and suspended parliament last July, issued a decree late on Wednesday allowing...
Indian extremists are auctioning off Muslim women. “Sulli Deals” is an app created for this auction. It was launched July 4th on GitHub.
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Palestinian Authority (PA) rejected an Israeli request for a joint investigation into the killing of senior Al Jazeera journalist, a Palestinian official said on Thursday. “Israel has requested a joint investigation and to be handed over the bullet that assassinated journalist Shireen, we refused that,” senior PA...
ANKARA (AA) – The more than two-year COVID-19 pandemic in the US has so far claimed one million lives, said President Joe Biden on Thursday. The country “marks a tragic milestone and each was an irreplaceable loss,” Biden said in a statement. Each life lost left behind “a family, a community, and a nation forever […]
While the United States refuses to work with the Taliban, and NGOs follow suit, grassroots activists have no choice but to engage. I have been engaged in grassroots work for the rights and well-being of Afghan women for two decades. Given the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban on August 15, 2021, the question I […]
Decades earlier recall what the US-Britain and NATO did in Iraq even on the Xmas Eve. Layla Anwar (“Come and see our overflowing morgues……come and see the rubble of your surgical strikes”: An Arab Women Blues wrote in her website blog: “Everyday, under the pretext of either al-Qaida, insurgents, militants or whatever imaginary name...
“They have looked the other way while millions have died needlessly”, reads a new letter. In a letter on Wednesday, around 300 public health experts, academics, labor leaders, and activists condemned rich countries for preventing the world from an “early exit” from the coronavirus pandemic, by continuously obstructing a...
As the Ukrainians offer their blood and their lives in order to safeguard their democracy, we should not allow powerful capitalists to accrue profits as the working class suffers the consequences. Russia’s disastrous efforts to become a great power once again, after its embrace of capitalism, have turned the country into a supplier of raw [&he...
Ottawa, Canada – AFP Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met Wednesday with an Indigenous community that recently identified 93 graves at a former residential school, part of a series of similar discoveries that shocked the country. His visit to the Williams Lake First Nation in British Columbia came just days after a delegation spoke...
