By Anadolu Agency Russian President Vladimir Putin said he offered the Wagner mercenaries the chance to keep fighting for the army at a meeting just days after their attempted mutiny, but the group’s chief Yevgeny Prigozhin rejected his offer. “All of them could gather in one place and continue to serve. And nothing would have

Credit Reuters/United Arab Emirates President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Belgium has summoned the United Arab Emirates’ ambassador to the country after reports emerged that Abu Dhabi is involved in a smear campaign aimed at associating at least 1,000 people living in Europe with the Muslim Brotherhood. The European Investigative Cooperation Group (EIC) said in a

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi (R) meets with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at the Ittihadiya presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt, June 10, 2018. in this handout picture courtesy of the Egyptian Presidency. The Egyptian Presidency/Handout via Reuters/File Photo By Reuters Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday discussed

By Anadolu Agency Police in Kenya exhumed 12 more bodies as part of an ongoing investigation into a starvation cult, bringing the death toll to 372, Regional Police Commissioner Rhoda Onyancha announced Wednesday. The exhumation took place during the third day of the fourth phase of the operation. Police said the recovery of the bodies

May Sarah Cardinal sits for a portrait outside the Law Courts building in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on Thursday, May 25, 2023. Cardinal said she was pressured into having her tubes tied when she was 20. (AP Photo/Amber Bracken) By The Associated Press Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists,

Sergei Naryshkin, head of Russia’s foreign intelligence agency, attends a military parade on Victory Day, which marks the 76th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow, Russia May 9, 2021. Reuters/Evgenia Novozhenina By Reuters Russian foreign intelligence chief Sergei Naryshkin said on Wednesday that he

By Anadolu Agency China on Wednesday rejected the NATO summit declaration that accused relations between Beijing and Moscow of threatening the “rule-based international order.” In response to NATO’s accusation, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said that the relations between China and Russia are based on the principles of “non-alignment, non-confrontation, and non-targeting of third

By The Associated Press Concerns are growing that Russia will not extend a United Nations-brokered deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to parts of the world struggling with hunger, with ships no longer heading to the war-torn country’s Black Sea ports and food exports dwindling. Turkey and the U.N. negotiated the breakthrough accord

By Reuters Police deployed heavily in Kenya’s capital Nairobi on Wednesday ahead of expected countrywide protests called for by the main opposition leader against a raft of tax hikes. At least two people were killed last Friday during a first round of demonstrations against the taxes, which are contained in a finance bill signed into

By The East African The European Union’s battle for influence in East Africa is taking shape with increasing private investment and funding across the region. This follows a €150 billion ($170 billion) pledge for investment pledge made in February last year at the EU-Africa Summit in Brussels, Belgium. While Europe maintains that it is not