NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – China’s foreign minister has said that Africa should not be a platform for international competition. “Africa should be a key stage for international cooperation, not a place where powerful nations compete with one another,” said Qin Gang, speaking in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa while launching the Chinese-built Africa...
Sollentuna, Sweden (AFP): A former Iranian prison official sentenced for life in prison in Sweden for crimes committed during a 1988 purge of dissidents appeared in court again Wednesday as his appeals trial opened. The case relates to the killing of at least 5,000 prisoners across Iran, allegedly ordered by supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti said Tuesday that Serbia should be pressured to accept a German-French proposal to normalize relations. The proposal is thought to be a way of speeding up Serbia’s EU membership process in exchange for its recognition of Kosovo. Kurti said Serbia is the one rejecting the p...
ANKARA (AA) – The Myanmar junta government imprisoned 112 Rohingya, including children, for entering the country “without any legal documents,” according to the local media. A local court in the Bogale township in the southern Ayeyarwady region sentenced 112 persons, including 12 children and 47 women on January 6, the daily Global...
An infographic titled ”10 most devastating climate disasters of 2022″ in Ankara, Turkiye on December 27, 2022. The 10 most destructive climate disasters of 2022 caused more than $200 billion in damages.
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnian Serbs held celebrations Monday to mark the anniversary of the founding of the entity Republika Srpska (RS) in defiance of a ruling by Bosnia’s top court. The commemorations, which were supported by senior members of the Republika Srpska government and Serbia, kicked off with a parade in East Sarajevo. Amon...
GENEVA (AA) – The cost of rebuilding Pakistan after last year’s devastating floods will exceed $16 billion “and far more will be needed in the longer term,” the UN chief said on Monday. “Pakistan is doubly victimized by climate chaos and a morally bankrupt global financial system,” Antonio Guterres said at the International Conference on [&hel...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir instructed police Sunday to ban Palestinian flags from public spaces. “It cannot be that lawbreakers wave terrorist flags, incite and encourage terrorism, so I ordered the removal of flags supporting terrorism from the public space and to stop the incitement against Isra...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – NATO peacekeepers, known as the Kosovo Force, or KFOR, have refused Serbia’s request to deploy its security forces to Kosovo, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday. Vucic in December requested that up to 1,000 police and military personnel return to Kosovo in line with UN Security Council Resolution 1244...
DOUALA, Cameroon ( AA) – Col. Assimi Goita, Mali’s transitional president, has pardoned 49 Ivorian soldiers convicted of conspiracy and undermining state security, a government spokesman said late Friday. Three who were women were later released, while 46 soldiers were sentenced to 20 years imprisonment on Dec. 30. The three releas...
