NEW DELHI, India – India marked its 77th Independence Day on Tuesday with Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicking off the celebrations with a speech from the ramparts of the famed Red Fort, the seat of power of the Muslim Mughal Empire. He said the government was making every effort to restore peace in the northeastern […]
ANKARA, Turkey – Almost 82% of Arab youth consider Turkey an ally, only 12% see it as an adversary, and less than 1% as an enemy country. According to the results of the 15th annual survey of Arab youth, 80% of Arab youth also consider China an ally. While 72% of respondents see the U.S. […]
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – At least one Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami activist was killed and more than 100 others were injured in clashes with police on Tuesday in various parts of the country during protests after police prevented them from holding funeral prayers in absentia for their late leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee. One person died af...
Niamey, Niger – AFP A Niamey court on Monday scrapped a nine-month jail sentence handed to Abdoulaye Seydou, head of a leading activist group which supports the ruling military, his entourage said. Members of Niger’s presidential guard seized power in a coup late last month. Seydou, head of the M62 group, had been behind bars [&hel...
Islamabad, Pakistan — AFP Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has been sworn in as Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister to see the country through to an election due in months. Kakar, 52, takes charge of a country that has been wracked by political and economic instability for months, with former prime minster Imran Khan in jail and disqualified fr...
–Scholars say under 14th Amendment, no one may hold high public office who has engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the Constitution. WASHINGTON – Two conservative legal scholars argued that former President Donald Trump cannot hold the presidential office again under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. William Baude of the Un...
DAKAR, Senegal (AA) – Niger’s military junta vowed Sunday to prosecute ousted President Mohamed Bazoum for “high treason” and undermining the country’s “internal and external security.” “The Nigerien government has so far gathered…evidence to prosecute the deposed president and his local and foreign accomplices before t...
ANKARA (AA) – Malaysia’s key elections in six states have ended in a status quo outcome as Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government and the opposition alliance, Perikatan Nasional (PN), clinched three states each. Both the ruling and the opposition parties retained the states they governed before the polls, local English daily Mal...
Niamey, Niger (AFP): Niger’s detained president was seen by his doctor on Saturday, his entourage said amid mounting concern for his condition, while Nigerian religious leaders met the officers who seized power last month to try to defuse the crisis. The Muslim leaders visited the capital Niamey with the blessing of Nigerian President Bo...
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia — AFP Malaysians in six states went to the polls on August 12 to vote for state assembly members in elections widely seen as a barometer of support for Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s unity government. While the elections are unlikely to immediately affect Anwar’s current two-thirds majority in parliamen...
