By Anadolu Agency A detained European lawmaker agreed to cooperate with Belgian authorities concerning a corruption scandal that he is involved in along with other European officials, including the vice president of the European Parliament, Belgian authorities said Tuesday. Pier Antonio Panzeri, former Italian member of the European Parliament, signed a repentance agreement where he

File – Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, right, talks with United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken as they arrive for a family photo during the first day of the meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs, in Bucharest, Romania, on Nov. 29, 2022. Turkey and the United States will aim to smooth out a

An elderly person holds a child near lanterns decorating a shop ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year, in Beijing, China, January 15, 2023. Photographer Tingshu Wang By Reuters China’s population fell last year for the first time in six decades, a historic turn that is expected to mark the start of a long period

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni arrives in the United Arab Emirates for the three-day official visit on January 15, 2023 By Daily Monitor Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has placed a blanket ban on travel abroad by members of Parliament and civil servants to save money for other priority sectors. While commissioning facilities on Saturday at Uganda

By The Associated Press British judges gave the go-ahead on Monday for the Court of Appeal to consider challenges to the U.K. government’s plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. Two High Court judges ruled in December that the controversial policy is legal, rejecting a lawsuit from several asylum-seekers, aid groups

By Anadolu Agency Italy’s most-wanted mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro was arrested in Sicily on Monday morning after about three decades on the run, Italian police said. Denaro, 60, was detained in a private clinic in the Sicilian city of Palermo, Italian media reported, adding he was arrested just before 0900GMT and taken to a

Charlaine Mbiang, known as Espoir La Tigresse, a Gabonese singer, speaks on the red carpet, ahead of the 8th All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) that aims to celebrate and promote the continent’s best veteran and cutting-edge musicians in Dakar, Senegal, January 15, 2023. Photographer Ngouda Dione By Reuters Musical heavyweights gathered in Dakar, Senegal on

A man harvests miraa at Kiguchwa market, Tigania East, Meru County By Business Daily Africa Somalia has allowed Kenya to more than double the volumes of miraa exported to this lucrative market, expanding opportunities for local farmers who are eying good returns from the Horn of Africa nation. The exports, which have now increased to

In this picture released on Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2008, by Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, Ali Reza Akbari speaks in a meeting to unveil the book “National Nuclear Movement” in Tehran, Iran. Iran said Saturday, Jan. 14, 2023, it had executed Akbari, a dual Iranian-British national who once held a high-ranking position in the country’s

Israelis protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new right-wing coalition and its proposed judicial reforms to reduce powers of the Supreme Court in a main square in Tel Aviv, Israel January 14, 2023. Reuters/ Ilan Rosenberg By Reuters Tens of thousands of Israelis demonstrated in three major cities on Saturday against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s