WWorld Read More2 minute read Germany’s Merkel Tells Erdogan Turkey Needs Strong ParliamentbyNewsWeekMe WriterDecember 5, 2020 ISTANBUL, May 23 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she had told Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Four Killed in Latest Shelling Across Disputed Kashmir BorderbyNewsWeekMe WriterDecember 2, 2020 MUZAFFARABAD/SRINIGAR, Pakistan, Nov 9 – Four people were killed on Tuesday in exchanges of fire between India and…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Greenhouse Gases Milestone Shows Need for Action – WMObyNewsWeekMe WriterOctober 24, 2020 OSLO/GENEVA, Oct 24 – Greenhouse gases rose to a symbolic milestone in 2015, taking climate change into a…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Egyptian Court Recommends Death Penalty for Journalists, Mursi Verdict PostponedbyNewsWeekMe WriterOctober 20, 2020 CAIRO, May 8 – An Egyptian court on Saturday recommended the death penalty for three journalists and three others charged…
WWorld Read More3 minute read Charlotte Protesters Keep Marching After Police Release Shooting VideobyNewsWeekMe WriterOctober 20, 2020 CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept 25 – Nearly a week of recurring protests over the police killing of a black…
WWorld Read More1 minute read Italians, Canadian Kidnapped in Libyan DesertbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 28, 2020 TRIPOLI, Sept 20 – Two Italians and a Canadian have been kidnapped in Libya’s southwestern desert, possibly by…
WWorld Read More5 minute read Deadly Bangladesh Blaze Shows Up Safety Gaps Three Years After Factory CollapsebyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 25, 2020 DHAKA, Oct 13 – Bangladesh’s safety inspectors twice extended an operating licence at a food and cigarette packaging…
WWorld Read More3 minute read Mosul Old City Residents Spend Hungry and Fearful Ramadan Under Daesh RulebyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 25, 2020 BAGHDAD, June 15 – For Salam, a resident in the Daesh-held Old City ofMosul, the holy fasting month…
WWorld Read More1 minute read Cholera Outbreak Spreading in Yemen – WHObyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 24, 2020 SANAA, Oct 11 – More cases of cholera have been registered in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, a World…
WWorld Read More4 minute read U.S. Weighs Tougher Response to Russia over Syria CrisisbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 24, 2020 WASHINGTON, Sept 29 – Obama administration officials have begun considering tougher responses to the Russian-backed Syrian government assault…
WWorld Read More2 minute read World Court Rejects Marshall Islands Suit Seeking Nuclear DisarmamentbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 24, 2020 AMSTERDAM, Oct 5 – The International Court of Justice on Wednesday rejected suits filed by the tiny Marshall…
WWorld Read More1 minute read Cambodia Tribunal Charges Former Khmer Rouge Cadre With GenocidebyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 23, 2020 BANGKOK, Dec 9 (Reuters) – An international judge at a tribunal in Cambodia on Friday charged a former…
WWorld Read More5 minute read In Egyptian Village, Attack on Christian Grandmother Fuels AngerbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 21, 2020 ALKARM, Egypt, May 30 – Soad Thabet’s house no longer has a door. Inside, its walls are blackened…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Suspected Car Bomb Kills at least 10 People in Somali CapitalbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 21, 2020 MOGADISHU, Nov 26 – A suspected car bomb killed at least 10 people when it exploded at a…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Muslim Funeral in Muhammad Ali’s Hometown Draws ThousandsbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 19, 2020 LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 9 – A Muslim funeral for Muhammad Ali on Thursday drew thousands of admirers to…
WWorld Read More3 minute read Syrians Begin Returning Home, Two Weeks into Turkish OffensivebyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 19, 2020 ISTANBUL, Sep8 – A group of 292 Syrians went back to the Syrian town of Jarablus from Turkey…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Muslim Funeral in Muhammad Ali’s Hometown Draws ThousandsbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 19, 2020 LOUISVILLE, Ky., June 9 – A Muslim funeral for Muhammad Ali on Thursday drew thousands of admirers to…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Saudi Interior Ministry Names Qatif, Medina Bombers; Suspects ArrestedbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 18, 2020 DOHA, July 8 – Saudi Arabia said a suicide bomber who attacked Prophet Mohammed’s Mosque in the city…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Pakistani Man Charged With Blasphemy Over Shoes With Hindu SymbolbyNewsWeekMe WriterAugust 12, 2020 ISLAMABAD, June 20 – Pakistani police arrested a man under the majority-Muslim country’s strict blasphemy laws on Monday…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Pakistani Man Charged With Blasphemy Over Shoes With Hindu SymbolbyNewsWeekMe WriterAugust 12, 2020 ISLAMABAD, June 20 – Pakistani police arrested a man under the majority-Muslim country’s strict blasphemy laws on Monday…
WWorld Read More2 minute read American Journalist, Translator Killed in AfghanistanbyNewsWeekMe WriterAugust 12, 2020 LASHKAR GAH/KABUL, Afghanistan, June 6 – A veteran American photojournalist and a translator working for NPR were killed…
WWorld Read More4 minute read Turkish military, U.S.-led Coalition Launch Operation to Sweep Daesh from Syria TownbyNewsWeekMe WriterAugust 10, 2020 ISTANBUL/KARKAMIS, Turkey, Aug 24 – Turkish special forces units and jets supported by warplanes from the U.S.-led coalition…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Pakistan’s Supreme Court Starts Hearings to Decide PM’s FuturebyNewsWeekMe WriterAugust 8, 2020 ISLAMABAD, July 17 – Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Monday began hearings that will decide the future of Prime…
WWorld Read More4 minute read EU Welcomes Bold Turkey Plan to Stop Migrants, Defers DecisionbyNewsWeekMe WriterAugust 6, 2020 BRUSSELS, March 8 – European Union leaders welcomed Turkey’s offer on Monday to take back all migrants who…
WWorld Read More3 minute read Republican National Security Experts: Trump Would Be ‘Dangerous’ PresidentbyNewsWeekMe WriterAugust 6, 2020 WASHINGTON, Aug 8 – Fifty prominent Republican national security officials, including a former CIA director, on Monday called…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Passengers to Sue Boeing over Emirates Crash at Dubai AirportbyNewsWeekMe WriterJanuary 20, 2019 Passengers on an Emirates flight that crash landed in Dubai in August last year are suing the aircraft’s…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Mumbai Red-light Area Gentrifies, Putting Sex Workers at Greater RiskbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 9, 2018 MUMBAI, June 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Rising rents and redevelopment are forcing sex workers out of Mumbai’s…
WWorld Read More5 minute read Lebanon Finally Ready to Elect a PresidentbyNewsWeekMe WriterApril 23, 2018 BEIRUT, Oct 31 – Twenty-six years after being forced from Lebanon’s presidential palace and into exile by the Syrian…
WWorld Read More3 minute read Turkey’s Erdogan Chastises U.S. Over Support for Syrian KurdsbyNewsWeekMe WriterFebruary 16, 2018 By Daren Butler ISTANBUL, Feb 10 – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan upbraided the United States for its support…
WWorld Read More2 minute read Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Question U.S. Sailors, Dismiss Talk of Prompt ReleasebyNewsWeekMe WriterFebruary 16, 2018 DUBAI, Jan 13 – Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said on Wednesday it was interrogating 10 American sailors it had…