BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – Human rights group Amnesty International has urged the Lebanese authorities to stop their plan to return Syrian refugees to their country. “The Lebanese authorities are scaling up the so-called voluntary returns, a plan which has been in place for four years, when it is well established that Syrian refugees in Leba...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Iraqi leader and cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has refused to participate in a new Iraqi government being formed by Prime Minister-designate Mohammad Shia al-Sudani. Al-Sudani was nominated by the Coordination Framework, a coalition of Shia groups close to Iran, to form the new government. His candidacy has been strongly opposed by al-...
ANKARA (AA) – The number of workers who died in a blast at a coal mine in northern Türkiye has increased to 40, according to the Turkish interior minister. Suleyman Soylu said 11 wounded workers are under treatment in hospitals. “One of the injured has been discharged,” Soylu told reporters in the Amasra district of […]
DADU, Pakistan (AA) – Flood victims returning to villages in Pakistan’s south are finding themselves having to rebuild their homes after they were flattened by last month’s devastating floods that submerged one-third of the country. Allah Bachayo Phanwar stands as a stark example. Located on the outskirts of Dadu district in ...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – Azerbaijan has hit back at French leader Emmanuel Macron for his “false” and “unacceptable” comments on Baku’s conflict with Armenia. “We strongly condemn and reject such statements. We do not see a possibility of France playing any role in normalization efforts between Azerbaijan and Armenia from now on,” Azerbaijani P...
NEW DELHI (AA) – A Hindu mob allegedly ransacked a mosque, attacked Muslims offering prayers, and threatened them with expulsion from their village in the northern Indian state of Haryana, according to a police official. Police registered a complaint of Subedar Nazar Mohammed in this regard, but no arrests were made. “We have already reg...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Three passengers were killed late Friday in Bangladesh near capital Dhaka when an engine boat capsized on the Shitalakkhya River, according to an official with the Fire Service and Civil Defense. “Our rescue operation has been completed last midnight as only those three passengers of the water vessel out of...
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden has called Pakistan “one of the most dangerous nations in the world” as the country has “nuclear weapons without any cohesion”. He made the remarks while addressing a Democratic congressional campaign committee reception on Thursday. A transcript of the address, published on the White House’s website, quoted Bid...
ANKARA (AA) – Twenty-five workers were killed Friday in a blast at a coal mine in northern Türkiye, according to the Bartın Governor’s Office. The office said in a statement that “36 of our mine workers were evacuated from the accident site. 25 of our mined workers lost their lives and 6 of our miners […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – A callous act of putting multiple unclaimed bodies on the rooftop of a hospital in Pakistan’s southern Multan city prompted the government on Friday to launch an investigation into the desecration of human remains and failure to bury them in line with religious rights. Pervaiz Elahi, the chief minister of central-eastern...
