MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree stating that free land plots in the suburbs of Moscow, Crimea and Sevastopol will be given to veteran soldiers who participated in the war in Ukraine and received outstanding merit awards. The decree on additional measures to support the army was published on the […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Greece’s foreign minister has reaffirmed Athens’ support for dialogue between Serbia and Kosovo for the normalization of relations. Nikos Dendias made the remarks during a joint press conference with his Serbian counterpart Ivica Dacic in the capital Belgrade on Monday. Dendias said that all existing agreements ha...
BERN (AA) – Swiss Justice Minister Karin Keller-Sutter has suspended the resettlement program to take in refugees in need of special protection. The reason given by the Justice Ministry was that asylum capacity had been exhausted, according to the online news site Nau.ch. According to the report, the resettlement program has been suspend...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has accused The New York Times of calling for undermining his prospective government. “After burying the Holocaust for years on its back pages and demonizing Israel for decades on its front pages, the New York Times now shamefully calls for undermining Israel’s elected incomi...
ANKARA/LONDON (AA) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has apologized on behalf of the government for the Netherlands’ past involvement in slavery. “We can recognize slavery in the clearest terms as a crime against humanity,” Rutte said during a press conference in The Hague. He expressed regret that for centuries “the Du...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Two Syrian regime soldiers were wounded in an Israeli airstrike that targeted the vicinity of the capital Damascus on Tuesday, reported Syrian regime news agency SANA. The agency quoted an unnamed military source as saying: “At about 00:30 local time around dawn, Tuesday, Israeli forces carried out air aggression wi...
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AA) – Thousands of Sudanese demonstrated in the capital Khartoum on Monday to mark the 3rd anniversary of popular protests that led to the ouster of long-serving President Omar al-Bashir. Protesters waved banners calling for civilian rule and an end to last year’s military takeover as they marched towards the presidential pala...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany on Monday called on Iran to show “political will” to resolve the standoff over a nuclear probe following the visit of a UN nuclear watchdog delegation to Tehran as part of its inquiry into undeclared uranium particles found in Iran. “Iran must now come up with technically plausible answers, which now […]
Baabda, Lebanon — AFP Nour is raising her four-month-old daughter in Lebanon’s most overpopulated women’s prison, struggling to get formula and nappies for her baby as the country’s economy lies in tatters. “I don’t have enough milk to breastfeed, and baby formula isn’t readily available,” said t...
ANKARA (AA) – At least five people were killed and another injured at a condominium unit in a Toronto suburb on Sunday evening, according to police sources. Police found a “horrendous scene where numerous victims were deceased” after responding to an active shooting call at the building in Vaughan, a city just north of the […]
