ISTANBUL (AA) – The French president has said that European countries should be more decisive in the NATO alliance and reduce their “reliance on the US,” according to media reports. The Wall Street Journal quoted Macron as saying that a stronger Europe would allow the continent to become more autonomous within the military alliance, acti...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has announced that he had completed forming a new government with his allies in the right-wing camp, minutes before the end of the mandate given to him to accomplish the task. Netanyahu phoned President Isaac Herzog, who initially gave him a 28-day deadline to form a go...
LONDON (AA) – Although nearly 60 years have passed, the trauma of the 1963 “Bloody Christmas” massacre is still fresh in the minds of Muslim Turkish Cypriots. Starting on December 21, following the Greek Cypriot coup of the Cyprus government, some 1% of the Turkish Cypriot population was killed and 25% displaced by Greek Cypr...
ROME (AA) – European democracy is under attack, the president of the European Parliament has said, pointing to the need to make more efforts to fight against those trying to undermine Europe’s values. Speaking at an event in Rome on Wednesday, Roberta Metsola said the European Parliament and Europe have and will continue to respond...
BERLIN (AA) – A Christmas speech by a local politician from Germany’s conservative CDU party has led to outrage and disbelief. Udo Witschas, the district administrator from Bautzen in the German state of Saxony, said in the speech that he did not want to “bleed school or recreational sports for this asylum policy,” referring to [&h...
BERLIN (AA) – Hundreds of right-wing extremists are wanted for arrest in Germany, the Berlin-based Taz newspaper reported Wednesday. As of Sept. 30, there were open arrest warrants for 674 people from the far-right spectrum, the Interior Ministry said in response to a parliamentary inquiry made by the radical leftist opposition party The...
DOHA, Qatar (AA) – A traditional item of clothing called a bisht, which was worn by Lionel Messi while lifting the World Cup trophy during the awards presentation ceremony, has attracted great interest from football fans, according to Qatari media reports. Many fans, especially Argentines, flocked to the Souq Waqif marketplace to buy the tradi...
LONDON (AA) – More than 400 migrants were illegally detained at removal centers, internal government emails have revealed, according to a local media report. Home Office emails obtained by the BBC said their detention was “no longer legal” and authorities were required to move them “to hotels ASAP.” The detention centers were used to keep [&he...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban called Wednesday for a restructured European Parliament amid an ongoing corruption case involving a high-ranking European parliamentarian. “The swamp should be drained,” Orban told reporters at an annual press conference, adding that Hungarians want the parliament to consi...
NABLUS, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian was killed and five others were wounded Thursday by the Israeli army in the northern West Bank. “The young man, Ahmad Atef Daraghmeh, 23, was shot dead by the Israeli army during a raid on the city of Nablus,” the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported. According to the […]
