KHOJAVAND, Azerbaijan (AA) – Another mass grave of Azerbaijanis killed and buried by Armenian forces during the first Karabakh war has been found in the Khojavand district. Anadolu Agency team captured footage of the remains of 12 Azerbaijani people in the mass grave in Edilli village of the district. Some bullet holes in the skull [&hel...
ISLAMABAD (AA) – The US ambassador to Pakistan, Donald Blome, paid an official trip to Azad Jammu and Kashmir for the first time since he landed in the capital Islamabad to take up his job. In an official statement, the US Embassy said Donald Blome’s visit to Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) on Oct. 2-4 […]
TEHRAN (AA) – At least 490 people were injured as a result of a 5.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Iran’s northwestern province of West Azerbaijan in the wee hours of Wednesday, according to local health officials. The powerful tremor shook the city of Khoy, 807 kilometers northwest of the capital Tehran. According to the Iranian...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladesh returned to normalcy Tuesday night after nearly seven hours as the power supply was restored after a record-long nationwide blackout. According to the state-run Bangladesh Power Development Board and Power Grid Company, the main transmission line near the Jamuna River tripped, causing a national grid f...
Malang, Indonesia (AFP): Elite Indonesian police officers are under investigation over a stadium stampede that killed 131 people, including dozens of children, in one of the deadliest disasters in football history. As public anger grew, police moved to punish those responsible for the crush in the city of Malang that witnesses say started when...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Bangladeshi coast guards recovered the bodies of three Rohingya refugee women and rescued 45 others after a boat carrying them to Malaysia illegally capsized in the Bay of Bengal on Tuesday. There were 85 passengers on board, said Noor Mohammad, a Bangladesh Coast Guard official working at the Baharchhara outpost in [&...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Two Pakistan Army soldiers and seven militants were killed in separate clashes in the country’s northwest province on Tuesday. A group of militants fired on a military convoy in the Hassan Khel area of the Lakki Marwat district in northwestern Kyber Pakhtunkhwa, prompting an immediate response by the troops...
KUALA LUMPUR (AA) – Turkish Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop discussed bilateral relations with his Malaysian counterparts in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. Sentop met Azhar Azizan Harun and Rais Yatim, heads of the lower and upper chambers of Malaysia’s parliament, and praised bilateral relations between Türkiye and Malaysia. Sentop said tha...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Just a week after a Japanese political affairs consul was declared persona non grata by Russia, Tokyo has asked a Russian diplomat to leave the country. The move comes in response to Moscow’s decision last week to declare a Japanese diplomat persona non grata after being “caught red-handed receiving classified information about...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Hundreds of Israeli settlers forced their way into the flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem on Tuesday. In a statement, the Jordan-run Islamic Waqf Department, which oversees holy sites in Jerusalem, said 468 settlers entered the site through the compound’s Al-Mugharbah Gate under police protection. The...
