By Anadolu Agency The US said Wednesday it is “disrespectful’ to burn religious texts after the Quran was burned in Sweden on the first day of a major Muslim festival, Eid al-Adha. “We’ve said consistently that the burning of religious texts is disrespectful and hurtful, and what might be legal is certainly not necessarily appropriate,”

File – This undated handout image provided by Greece’s coast guard on June 14, 2023, shows scores of people on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece. The border and coast guard agency Frontex estimated that more than 50,300 attempts were made to enter the EU without authorization from January

By Reuters Uganda National Oil Co expects to start oil production from the Tilenga project in the first half of 2025, the company’s CEO said on Wednesday. “The drill kits have been put up and the drilling has started,” Uganda National Oil Co CEO Proscovia Nabbanja told Reuters on the sidelines of an Energy Asia

The UN Security Council has passed a resolution by a majority vote to extend the African Union Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) for six months until December. The security council said that the six-month period will support the preparation of the Somali government’s plan for the second phase and the reduction of ATMIS operation forces. The

In this image made from the Ajman Police twitter, fire fighters try to extinguish a residential tower which caught fire early morning on Tuesday, June 27, 2023, in Ajman, United Arab Emirates. The fire tore through the high-rise residential building in the United Arab Emirates early Tuesday before being brought under control, according to videos

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (R) and visiting Rwandan President Paul Kagame meet at 10 Downing Street, London, Britain, Thursday May 4, 2023. Stefan Rousseau/Pool via Reuters/File Photo By Reuters Britain’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda will cost 169,000 pounds ($215,035) per person, according to the first detailed government assessment of a high-stakes

Credit to Photo Twitter Kenya president William Ruto Kenya president William Ruto said Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda troops will remain in Somalia, who is going to pay their salaries. The President of Kenya said the Kenyan troops in Somalia will remain in the country longer than the scheduled reduction of ATMIS troops. President Ruto said

In this handout photo released by Russian Presidential Press Service on Monday, June 26, 2023, Russian President Vladimir Putin Video address to the participants and guests of the 11th International Youth Industrial Forum “Engineers of the Future 2023” n Moscow, Russia, (Russian Presidential Press Service via AP) By The Associated Press Russian President Vladimir Putin

By Anadolu Agency The US envoy to Russia contacted the diplomatic service amid reports of the Wagner Group mutiny over the weekend to say that Washington had nothing to do with it, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday. “When yesterday US Ambassador (to Russia) Lynne Tracy communicated with Russian representatives, (she) was transmitting

Credit to Photo Reuters Former U.S. President Barack Obama and Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman By Reuters India’s finance minister has derided comments by former U.S. President Barack Obama that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government should protect the rights of minority Muslims, accusing Obama of being hypocritical. During Modi’s state visit to the United States