October 23, 2021   Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters in Eskisehir, Turkey, October 23, 2021. Murat Cetinmuhurdar/PPO/Handout via REUTERS reuters_tickers   By REUTERS   ISTANBUL – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that he had told his foreign ministry to expel the ambassadors of the United States and nine other Western countries for demanding the release ...

  October 23, 2021   This comes after the Pentagon killed senior Al-Qaeda commander Salim Abu-Ahmad in an airstrike near Idlib, Syria, last month. PHOTO: REUTERS   By AFP   WASHINGTON – A senior Al-Qaeda leader was killed in a US drone strike in Syria, the Pentagon said on Friday (Oct 22). The strike comes two days after a base ...

  October 22, 2021   A humanitarian flight was ordered to abort a landing in the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, epicenter of the conflict, as government airstrikes hit the area for a fourth day. The scene of an airstrike in Mekele, the capital of the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray, on Wednesday. Fighting in the region appears to have ...

  October 22, 2021   By Ethiopian News Agency   ADDIS ABABA – The intention of some Western countries and institutions is not to benefit the people of Tigray but to save the terrorist TPLF and defend their interest in the region, the Tigrayan Human Rights Advocate Muez Gebrehiot said. In an exclusive interview with ENA, the Western countries are ...

  October 22, 2021   President Joe Biden says the US would defend Taiwan from China, although these appears at odds with the longtime policy of strategic ambiguity | Nicholas Kamm AFP   By AFP   BALTIMORE – United States President Joe Biden on Thursday (Oct 21) said the US would come to the defence of Taiwan if the island ...

  October 21, 2021   The former president, who remains banned from Facebook and Twitter, has a goal to rival those tech giants Donald Trump announced plans to launch a social media app called Truth Social. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images   By Johana Bhuiyan | The Guardian   Donald Trump has announced plans to launch a social media platform called ...

  October 21, 2021   A former Minneapolis police officer who fatally shot an unarmed woman after she called 911 to report a possible rape behind her home has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison File – Former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor walks to the podium to be sentenced at Hennepin County District Court in Minneapolis, June ...

  October 21, 2021   A tribute is seen in the window of Belfairs Methodist Church, where British MP David Amess was stabbed to death during a meeting with constituents, in Leigh-on-Sea, Britain, Oct. 21, 2021.   By VOA News   British authorities said Thursday that a British man has been charged in the fatal stabbing of lawmaker David Amess ...

  October 21, 2021   Supporters of Sudan’s transitional government have called for mass rallies in Khartoum on Thursday amid fears the military is plotting to withdraw its support for an uneasy power-sharing agreement, more than two years after a popular uprising led to the overthrow of veteran autocrat Omar al-Bashir. Sudanese protesters take part in a rally demanding the ...

  October 20, 2021   Britain’s Housing Secretary Michael Gove walks while surrounded by police officers and protesters, in London, Britain October 19, 2021, in this still image obtained from a social media video. PHOTO BY PAUL BROWN/BAKEDBEANMEDIA /via REUTERS   By REUTERS   LONDON – A senior British minister was accosted on the street by angry protesters as he ...