Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Thursday that a joint delegation of Qatari and Turkish companies has arrived in Afghanistan to discuss plans to run Kabul’s international airport jointly. According to Anadolu Agency, Turkish and Qatari representatives met at the Qatar International Convention Center this week to coordinate details and are scheduled to travel to Kabul
Majid Al Futtaim, the Emirati billionaire who rose from working as a bank clerk to creating an eponymous business empire with four major brands including Dubai Mall and indoor ski slope in just over two decades has died on Friday. He described him as the sheikhdom’s “most important merchant” in a tweet, which Al Futtaim’s
On Friday, German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle has suspended four employees and one freelancer during an investigation into allegations that they expressed anti-Israel, antisemitic views. DW’s Arabic service is alleged to have made online comments this week decrying the Holocaust or perpetuating anti-Jewish stereotypes in some instances, according to the Munich daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung. The
Three men were gunned down and four others injured during a shooting at an apartment Friday night, police in Nashville said. The victims suffered non-life threatening gunshot wounds; the Homicide Unit is investigating what led to this tragedy The twitter post from MPD reads: “Three male victims shot last night -all expected survive,” adding that
President Joe Biden called on FTC chair Lina Khan to investigate immediately if oil and gas companies are conducting any illegal conspiracies to keep high prices at the pumps to extract high profit amid wholesale oil prices dropped already. This is the latest action implemented by the white house to control inflation and price hike.
The California parent, Homayoun Zadeh, 60 was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment for unlawful activities to admit his daughter into a university. He agreed to pay $100, 000 to help the admission process to the University of Southern California in a sweeping admission scheme. He was also observed pleading guilty in June for filing
A conjugated study conducted by university researchers showed the presence of harmful chemical phthalates, associated with many health problems in foods from high selling chains like McDonald’s, Chipotle, and many others. The study was conducted by researchers of George Washington University, the Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio, Texas, Boston University, and Harvard University and
Three men were hospitalized under police arrest for killing a woman and injuring 14 other people as they were involved in an open shootout in a bar in St. Paul, Minnesota on early morning, Sunday. According to the police, Terry Lorenzo Brown Jr., 33, Devondre Trevon Phillips, 29, and Jeffrey Orlando Hoffman, 32 had been
President Tsai Ing-wen stated Sunday that Taiwan would not bow to coercion and that no one can compel it to embrace China’s route for self-government democracy. The island marked its National Day amid heightened tensions with Beijing. Tsai cautioned that Taiwan is facing the “most complex situation” in the last 72 years, since the conclusion
The state government of Alabama is drafting amendments to its 1901 State Constitution that would remove, among other things, discriminatory language. The changes would mark the end of the last remaining legal remnants of what are generally referred to as Jim Crow laws, which created a state-sponsored education system separated by race, and in which
In his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, Prime Minister Imran Khan attempted to portray Pakistan as a victim of American ungratefulness and an international double standard. He began his comment by saying that during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, the US and Pakistan trained mujahedeen, who were considered as heroes by
According to court documents, a professor has been charged with a hate crime for spitting on a Black lady and screaming racist obscenities at her and her 7-year-old daughter outside a suburban Chicago grocery shop earlier this month. According to Cook County court records, Alberto Friedmann is accused with felony aggravated assault with a motor
