UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN condemned North Korea’s latest ballistic missile launch Tuesday, saying it was a reckless act and a violation of Security Council resolutions. “The Secretary-General strongly condemns the launch of a ballistic missile of possible intermediate range by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK),” s...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN General Assembly will convene an emergency session Oct. 10 concerning Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s territories, according to a spokesman. The meeting request by Ukraine and Albania comes after Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Moscow-backed referendums to annex part...
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...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized Greece’s prime minister for seeking help from the US against Türkiye, saying “we will continue to do what is necessary.” Speaking at an event in the capital Ankara, the Turkish leader pointed out Athens’ policy of illegal pushbacks of migrants. Recalling Türk...
ADEN, Yemen (AA) – The UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Yemen has urged the country’s warring parties “to commit to extending and expanding the truce.” “I strongly urge the parties to the conflict to heed calls by the UN Secretary-General and his Special Envoy for Yemen for truce extension and expansion to build on […]...
ANKARA (AA) – The European Union’s foreign policy chief has said that the bloc will consider all options including “restrictive measures” against Iran for its crackdown on protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. Speaking during a debate in the plenary of the European Parliament on Amini’s de...
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AA) – Over 200,000 Russian nationals have entered Kazakhstan since the announcement of partial mobilization on September 21 in Russia, a Kazakh official has said. “68 people have applied for Kazakhstan citizenship,” Kazakhstan’s Interior Minister Marat Akhmetzhanov told reporters after the weekly cabinet m...
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...
BEIRUT (AA) – Depositors stormed at least four banks in Lebanon on Tuesday to demand access to their savings amid a severe economic crisis in the country. The Association of Depositors, an NGO that advocates rights of depositors, said a retired officer stormed an LBC Bank branch in the town of Chtoura in eastern Lebanon […]
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...
