UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The UN General Assembly will convene an emergency session Oct. 10 concerning Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s territories, according to a spokesman. The meeting request by Ukraine and Albania comes after Russia vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Moscow-backed referendums to annex part...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized Greece’s prime minister for seeking help from the US against Türkiye, saying “we will continue to do what is necessary.” Speaking at an event in the capital Ankara, the Turkish leader pointed out Athens’ policy of illegal pushbacks of migrants. Recalling Türk...
BRUSSELS (AA) – An appeal against the law allowing the extradition of an Iranian diplomat jailed for terrorism charges has been filed at the Belgian Constitutional Court, while a first instance court approved the prisoner exchange, according to local media. Iranian diplomat Assadolah Assadi was sentenced last year by a Belgian court to 2...
ANKARA (AA) – France’s far-right politician Marine Le Pen has demanded more mosques be closed in the country. Her demand comes despite the closure of 24 mosques in France in the past two years upon the order of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. In an interview with French TV channel BFMTV, Marine Le Pen said: “He […]
ANKARA (AA) – The European Union’s foreign policy chief has said that the bloc will consider all options including “restrictive measures” against Iran for its crackdown on protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. Speaking during a debate in the plenary of the European Parliament on Amini’s de...
COLOGNE, Germany (AA) – A mosque in Germany was subjected to an Islamophobic attack. Last Saturday, Islamophobic slurs and derogatory words about Prophet Muhammad were written on the wall of the mosque affiliated with the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) in the western city of Offenbach. In a statement, police urged ey...
COLOGNE, Germany (AA) – Muslims in Germany’s city of Cologne have welcomed the permission granted to them for two years to announce the call to prayer every Friday on loudspeaker. Abdurrahman Atasoy, the acting president of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB), said: “I hope we will hold our first call to p...
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Liz Truss said she is a “huge Zionist” and a “huge supporter of Israel,” a video shared online showed. The video, which was shared many times on social media platforms, shows Truss speaking at a Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI) event during her party’s fall conference being held in […]...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia’s lower chamber of parliament, the State Duma, has ratified agreements on four regions of Ukraine joining Russian territory. The lawmakers held individual votes on incorporating the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhzhia regions into Russia. All votes were unanimously in support of the move, with no deputi...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Voters in Bosnia and Herzegovina elected new representatives of the three-member Presidential Council on Sunday. According to the unofficial results of the general election from the Central Election Commission (CIK), Social Democratic Party candidate Denis Becirovic secured the Bosniak seat, incumbent Zeljko Komsi...
