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Maldives recalls its ambassador in Pakistan over unsanctioned meeting with Kabul's envoy

Nov. 05, 2024 10:35 AM EST

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistani officials said on Tuesday they were aware the Maldives government had recalled its ambassador to Pakistan after he met with the Afghan Taliban government's top diplomat in Islamabad without clearing it with his government. The Maldives does not recognize...

German police arrest 8 suspected members of a far-right militant group

Nov. 05, 2024 08:01 AM EST

BERLIN (AP) — Police in Germany on Tuesday arrested eight suspected members of a far-right militant organization, Germany's public prosecutor said. The suspects, some of them minors and adolescents, were allegedly part of a group of around 15-20 individuals called Sächsische...

US says Iranian-American held in Iran as tensions high following Israeli attack on country

Nov. 03, 2024 20:44 PM EST

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An Iranian-American journalist who once worked for a U.S. government-funded broadcaster is believed to have been detained by Iran for months now, authorities said Sunday, further raising the stakes as Tehran threatens to retaliate over an Israeli attack on the...

Hundreds in Turkey protest the arrest and ouster of opposition mayor

Oct. 31, 2024 13:27 PM EDT

ISTANBUL (AP) — Hundreds gathered Thursday in Istanbul to protest against the arrest and removal from office of a mayor from Turkey's main opposition party for his alleged links to a banned Kurdish militant group. Ahmet Ozer, mayor of Istanbul’s Esenyurt district and a member of...

Guinea authorities dissolve dozens of political parties with no election date set

Oct. 28, 2024 21:50 PM EDT

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Guinea authorities dissolved dozens of political parties and placed two major opposition ones under observation late Monday, while the transitional government has yet to announce a date for elections. The West African country has been led by a military regime...

The son-in-law of former Myanmar's strongman is arrested over Facebook posts

Oct. 25, 2024 07:38 AM EDT

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s security forces arrested the son-in-law of the country’s former longtime military ruler, Than Shwe, for allegedly posting inflammatory statements on his Facebook account, the state-run media said Friday. Nay Soe Maung, a 67-year-old retired colonel and...

Thousands mourn Fethullah Gülen, a Turkish spiritual leader who died in the US

Oct. 24, 2024 20:53 PM EDT

AUGUSTA, N.J. (AP) — A crowd surged forward to Fethullah Gülen’s grave on Thursday, straining to get one more chance to pay their respects to the influential Turkish spiritual leader and Islamic scholar who died this week in self-exile in the United States. After an outdoor...

Erdogan says the cleric accused of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt had a 'dishonorable death'

Oct. 22, 2024 11:30 AM EDT

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded Tuesday to the death of exiled Islamic cleric Fetullah Gulen, accused by Turkey of orchestrating a failed coup attempt in 2016, by saying he suffered a “dishonorable death” and likened him to a “demon in human form.” ...

Self-exiled Turkish spiritual leader Fethullah Gülen dies in the US

Oct. 21, 2024 18:36 PM EDT

SAYLORSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Fethullah Gülen, a reclusive U.S.-based Islamic cleric who inspired a global social movement while facing unproven accusations that he masterminded a failed 2016 coup in his native Turkey, has died. The Alliance for Shared Values, a New York-based group...

The head of Mali's military junta appoints himself to the highest rank in the army

Oct. 16, 2024 17:24 PM EDT

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — The head of the military junta that seized power in Mali in 2020 promoted himself Wednesday to the rank of army general with special title: Colonel Assimi Goita of the land army, the highest military distinction held only by two former heads of state in the country’s...