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Turkey: Istanbul mayor Imamoglu hit with new jail term

Turkey: Istanbul mayor Imamoglu hit with new jail term

The mayor of Istanbul, Ekrem Imamoglu, was on Wednesday handed an additional prison sentence, according to Turkish state media. Imamoglu, the main political rival to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has been in jail pending trial since...

Israeli soldiers’ voices, a tool for peace?

Israeli soldiers’ voices, a tool for peace?

uly brought joyful family holidays before the next school semester. But in war zones, families continued to lose loved ones; since late May alone, reports say, children were among some 700 Palestinians killed and over 4,000 injured at food...

Turkish Government Raises Alarm Over Terror Group’s Activity in Nigeria

Turkish Government Raises Alarm Over Terror Group’s Activity in Nigeria

58 By Lizzy Chirkpi The Turkish government has raised fresh concerns over the presence of members of the Fethullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) in Nigeria, warning that the group continues to pose a national security threat across the globe. The...

New report outlines steps to reduce rising antisemitism in U.K. schools, workplaces and hospitals

New report outlines steps to reduce rising antisemitism in U.K. schools, workplaces and hospitals

A report released this week about antisemitism in the United Kingdom lays out new recommendations for tackling the rise in anti-Jewish sentiment that has been climbing steeply since the October 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel – including in sectors...

Turkiye wants Nigeria to clamp down on Gülen movement activities

Turkiye wants Nigeria to clamp down on Gülen movement activities

The Turkish government says that members of a group it calls the Fethullah Terrorist Organisation (FETO) exist in Nigeria, and also operate in other countries around the world. Mehmet Poroy, Turkish ambassador-designate to Nigeria, disclosed this...

State College area humanitarian aid worker on potential impacts of rescission bill on foreign aid

State College area humanitarian aid worker on potential impacts of rescission bill on foreign aid

A bill to claw back billions of dollars already approved for public broadcasting and foreign aid is a step closer to becoming law, as the U.S. Senate advanced the rescission package early Thursday. Most of the funding at stake, $7.9 billion, is...

Israel, Iran trade strikes amid rising tensions, hostilities

Israel, Iran trade strikes amid rising tensions, hostilities

A ballistic missile launched from Iran hit and damaged a building in Bat Yam, Israel, on June 15, 2025. Israel and Iran continued intense bombardments on one another's territories for the third day. Photo: VCG Israel and Iran have launched fresh...

Students, faculty and lawmakers rally behind George Mason University amid Trump administration civil rights probe

Students, faculty and lawmakers rally behind George Mason University amid Trump administration civil rights probe

The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) announced that it had launched an investigation into GMU over allegations that the school’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies violate Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights...

Kerala Teen Electrocuted At school; Mother Working In Kuwait Yet To Learn Of Son’s Death

In a tragic incident, a 13-year-old boy was electrocuted while trying to retrieve his footwear from the school’s rooftop in Kerala on Thursday. Just before classes began at the state-supported Boys School in Thevalakkara in Kollam schoolchildren...

Three die in Israeli raid on Gaza Parish. Msgr. Shomali: 'They want to drive Christians away'

Three die in Israeli raid on Gaza Parish. Msgr. Shomali: 'They want to drive Christians away'

Milan (AsiaNews) - ‘They will say it was not intentional, they will always find an excuse, but war is like that, it always causes damage and victims,’ but what remains is the attack on a church, which is always a terrible and scandalous act,...

New US assessment reveals strike on Iran’s Fordo set back enrichment capabilities by about two years

New US assessment reveals strike on Iran’s Fordo set back enrichment capabilities by about two years

IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. White House has 'no interest' in appointing special counsel in Jeffrey Epstein case 13:12 NPR CEO warns public broadcasting cuts will cause ‘stations to go dark’...

Egypt’s PALM Secures Funding to Expand Goal-Oriented Savings Platform

Egypt’s PALM Secures Funding to Expand Goal-Oriented Savings Platform

Free Newsletter Get the hottest Fintech Middle East News once a month in your Inbox Egyptian fintech startup PALM has closed its pre-seed funding round, led by 4DX Ventures with participation from Plus VC and several international angel investors....

Security sciences university secures French accreditation

Security sciences university secures French accreditation

SAUDI ARABIA Naif Arab University for Security Sciences (NAUSS) in Saudi Arabia has secured full five-year accreditation from France’s High Council for Evaluation of Research and Higher Education (HCÉRES) for three of its core academic programmes:...

Listokin to serve as Yale Law School’s interim dean

Dear Members of the Yale Law School Community, As I announced on July 1, Dean Heather K. Gerken will step down from her leadership role at Yale Law School at the end of this month to prepare for her new position as president of the Ford...

Iran reaches tech to produce 11,500 strategic refinery equipment items domestically

Iran reaches tech to produce 11,500 strategic refinery equipment items domestically

TEHRAN – Iran has successfully localized the production of more than 11,500 strategic refinery equipment and components, according to the managing director of South Pars Gas Complex, a key player in the country’s gas industry. Speaking to IRIB,...

Australian law is clear: criticism of Israel does not breach the Racial Discrimination Act

Australian law is clear: criticism of Israel does not breach the Racial Discrimination Act

Earlier this month, the Federal Court found controversial Muslim cleric Wissam Haddad breached the Racial Discrimination Act. Justice Angus Stewart ruled a series of speeches Haddad posted online were “fundamentally racist and antisemitic [and]...

Israel strikes military compounds in Damascus as Syrian government widens attack on Sweida

Israel strikes military compounds in Damascus as Syrian government widens attack on Sweida

Israel attacked the main Syrian military compounds in the heart of Damascus on Wednesday, in a widening aerial campaign in response to an escalating Syrian government offensive on the southern city of Sweida. A Syrian military official told The...

Back to school: Keeping lunches out of the danger zone

Back to school: Keeping lunches out of the danger zone

BERRYVILLE, Ark. — Once a school lunch leaves your home kitchen, will it still be safe when lunchtime rolls around? That’s the question Torrie Smith, Carroll County extension agent in family and consumer sciences, wanted to answer. So, she did a...

Anti-Israel Campus Protests Were Filled with Hate; College Teachers Tell You Not to Believe the Truth

Anti-Israel Campus Protests Were Filled with Hate; College Teachers Tell You Not to Believe the Truth

How history will treat the post-October 7 anti-Israel protests on college campuses across America will depend in part on how much longer they last. As we approach the two-year mark, there seems little room for indifference. Normal people are...

Iran seizes foreign tanker suspected of smuggling oil in Gulf of Oman

Iran seizes foreign tanker suspected of smuggling oil in Gulf of Oman

A foreign tanker suspected of smuggling two million litres of fuel has been seized by Iran in the Gulf of Oman, Iranian media reported on Wednesday. The semi-official Mehr news agency quoted the chief justice of Iran's Hormozgan province as saying...

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