BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Serbia said Monday that it was unable to reach an agreement with Kosovo to resolve a dispute related to car license plates after a series of meetings in the Belgian capital. “Sleepless nights and certainly many difficult days are ahead of us,” Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic told reporters in Brusse...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran summoned the British ambassador to the Foreign Ministry on Monday after an attack by a violent group on the Iranian embassy in London. Ambassador Simon Shercliff was reminded of “the British government’s commitments within the framework of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations” and a prote...
ANKARA (AA) – The UN climate change conference COP27 “marks a small step towards climate justice,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday. At the conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, nearly 200 countries made a historic deal to establish a “loss and damage” fund to help vulnerable countries hit hard by climate...
SOFIA, Bulgaria (AA) – Bulgaria has detained five people for suspected complicity in a terror attack that killed six people in Istanbul last week. Three Moldavian nationals and two Arabs of unspecified nationality will be kept in custody for 72 hours, state-run news agency BTA reported, citing Siika Mileva, a spokesperson for the chief prosecu...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Thousands of children who lost their parents while migrating to Europe fall prey to human traffickers or the organ mafia in the countries they visit. The whereabouts of many refugee children who fled Ukraine due to Russia’s war are unknown. Although international non-governmental organizations have documented the us...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – The European Union has invited Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti to Brussels to find a solution to the car license plate crisis. EU spokesman Petar Stano on Friday said that the current crisis between Serbia and Kosovo is the most difficult situation since 2013. Tensions bet...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – A Bosnia and Herzegovina court on Friday sentenced former Bosnian Serb soldier Radovan Veljovic to seven years in prison for committing war crimes during the 1992-1995 war in the country. The court said that Veljovic, as a member of the Republika Srpska Army (VRS), was found guilty of raping a Bosniak […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijan’s president has said there is a need to modernize the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative, launched in 2009 to foster ties between the bloc and several post-Soviet nations. In a meeting with the EU’s special envoy for the initiative, Ilham Aliyev said: “With respect to Eastern Partnershi...
BERLIN (AA) – A firefighter was arrested for his suspected role in an arson attack at a Ukrainian refugee hostel in northeastern Germany, the Bild newspaper reported Thursday. The 32-year-old volunteer firefighter, Nick P., was detained early Wednesday on arson charges — one month after the fire gutted the building in the village o...
DAKAR (AA) – France halted development assistance to Mali on Thursday, citing the presence of Wagner mercenaries, according to French media reports and Foreign Ministry officials. Humanitarian aid to Mali and support for select non-governmental groups will be maintained, said the reports. Media reports said the decision was made two to t...