14 March 2019, AlJazeera News The United States no longer refers to the Golan Heights as an "Israeli-occupied" territory in its latest annual human rights report, published on Wednesday, though the State Department insists the wording change doesn't mean a policy change. The report now calls the area the "Israeli-controlled Golan Heights". When asked about...

JAkarta, 15 March 2019 (Reuters) Political and Islamic leaders expressed their disgust at the deadly shooting at two mosques in New Zealand on Friday, with some citing rising “Islamophobia” as responsible. As governments in Asia and the Middle East scrambled to find out how many of their citizens had been caught up in the bloodshed...

NZ Journalism, newsroom, 15 March 2019 The Prime Minister will be questioning her security and intelligence agencies as to how people with extreme ideologies managed to carry out an unprecedented terror attack on New Zealand soil. On Friday afternoon, gunmen open fired on two mosques  in Christchurch. By 0700 pm, 40 people were confirmed dead –...

Ankara/Melbourne, 15 March 2019 (Anadolu News) The death toll from twin Masajid (mosques) attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand, climbed to 49, according to the New Zeland Herald. Earlier New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern put the number at 40. Ardern said her country is treating the shootings as a "terrorist incident". “There is no place in New Zealand for...

Bogota, Colombia by Daniel Salgar Antolinez (Editor Anadolu Spanish News) 05 March 2019 On January 23 the president of the National Assembly of Venezuela, Juan Guaido, invoked articles 233, 333 and 350 of the Constitution and proclaimed himself interim president of the country. Then he began leading a strategy to end Nicolas Maduro’s government, calling the...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (AP-Yahoo) 1:50 p.m. A spokesman for Ethiopian Airlines says the among the dead in the crash Sunday are 32 Kenyans and 17 Ethiopians. Asrat Begashaw said that 31 other nationalities were also among those on board the new Boeing 737-8 MAX plane that crashed, killing all the 157 people thought to be...

Karachi, 10 March 2019 (Express Tribune) The United Arab Emirates (UAE), one of the top friendly countries of Pakistan, has made a fresh announcement for depositing $2 billion in the State Bank of Pakistan’s (SBP) foreign currency reserves in a bid to help Islamabad smoothly overcome international payment pressure. “These funds are expected to be...

Hanoi, 28 Feb. 2019 (CNN) President Trump and Kim Jong Un will sign a joint agreement on Thursday, according to the White House, and the President's daily schedule lists a signing ceremony after a day of meetings with Kim. They've been working on an agreement: US officials had been working to draft an agreement with...

Hanoi, 27 Feb. 2019 Kim Jong-un described his first talk in Vietnam with Donald Trump as “interesting dialogue” while the US President teased reporters that the chat had been mind-blowing. “Boy, if you could have heard that dialogue, what you would pay for that dialogue?” said Mr Trump, after appearing to joke with the North...

Hangzhou, China, 27 Feb. 2019 (Xinhua) China, Russia and India on Wednesday agreed to enhance coordination and cooperation, firmly uphold multilateralism and jointly fight against terrorism. The agreement came as Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Indian External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj held the 16th meeting of...