Author: Anadolu Agency
Kyiv said Monday that Moscow must stop hostilities in Ukraine “immediately” if it wants peace, as Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a three-day unilateral ceasefire earlier in the day. “If Russia truly wants peace, it must cease fire immediately. Why wait until May 8th? If the fire can be ceased now and since any date for 30 days-so it is real, not just for a parade,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on X. He went on to say Ukraine is ready to support a “lasting, durable, and full” ceasefire, adding: “This is what we are constantly proposing, for at…
Participants at a pro-Palestinian rally over the weekend in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka were seen carrying portraits of Ottoman Caliph Sultan Abdul Hamid II as they protested Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. “Some protesters were seen holding the portraits at the massive pro-Palestine rally in Dhaka on Saturday as sources of inspiration to see an independent Palestine and to recall the role of the Muslim Caliph in becoming a safeguard of the people of Palestine,” SM Mushfiq Hasan Jami, one of the key organizers, told Anadolu on Monday. Jami, repeating the same observation, said they also…
Amnesty International on Monday slammed US President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office as a disaster for human rights. “President Trump’s first 100 days have been disastrous for human rights in the US and internationally,” Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard said during a meeting in Brussels before Tuesday’s launch of the group’s State of the World’s Human Rights Report. Callamard said the Trump administration opened the door to “corporate capture of state power” as billionaire Elon Musk gets more access to government, warning that this is leading to an “an era of rampant corruption, disinformation and impunity.” “Governments…
The health ministry in war-torn Gaza Strip announced Sunday that the death toll from the war had risen to more than 52,000 people, after hundreds previously listed as missing were confirmed dead. “An additional 697 martyrs have been added to the cumulative statistics after their data was completed and verified by the committee monitoring missing persons,” the health ministry said in a statement, giving the overall toll of 52,243. Several United Nations agencies that operate in Gaza have said the ministry’s data is credible and they are frequently cited by international organisations. One hospital in the Palestinian territory confirmed the…
US President Donald Trump on Sunday said he will reinstate Columbus Day “under the same rules, dates, and locations, as it has had for all of the many decades before!” In his post on his proprietary social media platform Truth Social, Trump said he would be “bringing Columbus Day back from the ashes.” “The Democrats did everything possible to destroy Christopher Columbus, his reputation, and all of the Italians that love him so much. They tore down his Statues, and put up nothing but “WOKE,” or even worse, nothing at all! Well, you’ll be happy to know, Christopher is going…
The Israeli army has announced the death of an officer and a soldier during battles on Friday in the Gaza Strip. In a statement on Saturday, the army said Capt. Ido Voloch, a platoon commander in the 401st Armored Brigade’s 46th Battalion, and Sgt. Neta Yitzhak Kahane of the Border Police’s Yamas covert unit were killed in the Gaza City’s Shujaiya neighborhood. Israel has killed more than 51,000 people in the Gaza Strip since October 2023.
A 1,100-year-old sealed amphora was discovered in a shipwreck off the coast of Kas, Antalya during an underwater excavation using robotic technology, officials said. The excavation was led by Associate Professor Hakan Oniz of Akdeniz University under the Turkish Culture and Tourism Ministry’s “Heritage for the Future Project,” with a 20-member diving team operating on behalf of the Antalya Museum. After meticulous work, the team retrieved the sealed amphora from a depth of about 45 to 50 meters. Before bringing it ashore, the amphora was carefully processed and transported to Akdeniz University’s Underwater Archaeology Laboratory. Experts examined it under microscopes…
At least 30 Palestinians were killed and several others wounded on Sunday in fresh Israeli strikes targeting multiple areas across the Gaza Strip, medics said. A medical source said two women were killed in an Israeli strike on Wadi al-Arais in the Shujaiya neighborhood in Gaza City. Three more people lost their lives, and several others were injured in Israeli shelling in the Zeitoun neighborhood in the same city. Additionally, three Palestinians were killed when an Israeli airstrike targeted a house in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, and another victim was pulled from the rubble following a strike in the same area.…
US President Donald Trump lashed out at The New York Times on Saturday for what he described as unfair criticism of his efforts to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal, calling it the “greatest deal ever made.” Posting on Truth Social, Trump accused the newspaper — and specifically its reporter Peter Baker — of bias. “No matter what deal I make with respect to Russia/Ukraine, no matter how good it is, even if it’s the greatest deal ever made, The Failing New York Times will speak BADLY of it,” Trump wrote. He slammed Baker as “very biased and untalented,” criticizing what…
Three US citizen children, ages 2, 4, and 7, were deported from Louisiana early Friday morning alongside their mothers, The Washington Post reported Saturday, citing their lawyers. Lawyers for the families said both groups were taken into custody in New Orleans and transferred to Louisiana, where they were denied communication with relatives and legal counsel before being put on a flight to Honduras. The four-year-old suffers from Stage 4 cancer and was removed without medication or doctor contact, the family’s lawyer said. Attorneys representing the father of the two-year-old US citizen filed an emergency petition in the Western District of…