BRUSSELS (AA) – The 2016 Brussels terror attacks trial has started amid controversy over glass boxes built for the defendants. With a preliminary hearing, the largest trial in Belgium’s history kicked off with over 960 plaintiffs represented against nine alleged members of ISIS. The perpetrators are accused of carrying out terror attacks in Pa...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The newly elected Muslim cleric (mufti) of the Turkish minority in the Xanthi region of Western Thrace in Greece said Monday that discriminatory practices are being carried out against the Turkish minority in the region. Mustafa Trampa, who was elected as the new cleric on Sept. 9, told Anadolu Agency that the […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Germany crossed “the red line” when it started supplying lethal weapons to Ukraine, Russian Ambassador to Germany Sergey Nechayev has said. In an interview with the Russian daily Izvestia, Nechayev recalled that Germany bears moral and historical responsibility for the crimes of Nazi Germany, committed in Russia...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Germany and France, with the support of the US and Türkiye, want a quick solution to the Kosovo issue, Serbia’s president has said. “The great Western powers and Turkiye want to solve these problems because there is a war in Europe,” Aleksandar Vucic said in an address to the nation after […]
LONDON (AA) – The head of Britain’s largest Muslim umbrella organization has issued a statement offering condolences to King Charles III over the death of Queen Elizabeth II, and called him a “friend” of British Muslim communities. Zara Mohammed, the secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, said that in times of grief, Muslims say [...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid has termed his country’s campaign against signing a deal with Iran over its nuclear program “successful.” “Israel is conducting a successful diplomatic campaign to stop the nuclear agreement,” Lapid tweeted. However, he said that there still was “a lon...
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AA) – Russia has withdrawn its troops from several areas in Ukraine’s southern port city of Kherson, according to the Ukrainian army. Russian forces also continue vacating positions in the northern region of Kharkiv amid Kyiv’s counter-offensive, the army said in a statement. On Aug. 29, Ukraine announced a ...
Tel Aviv, Israel (AFP): Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid is in Germany in his latest diplomatic effort to persuade Western powers to ditch their tattered nuclear deal with the Jewish state’s arch nemesis Iran. Israel has long opposed a revival of the 2015 accord, which has been moribund since then US president Donald Trump unilaterally ...
ANKARA (AA) – US President Joe Biden has formally accepted an invitation to attend the funeral of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II on Sept. 19, the White House said Sunday. He will be accompanied by first lady Jill Biden, it announced. “The State Funeral of Her Majesty The Queen will take place at Westminster Abbey on […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran has slammed fresh US sanctions targeting the country’s ministry of intelligence and security for its alleged involvement in a July cyberattack in Albania. In a statement on Saturday, Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani dismissed the allegations of orchestrating the cyberattack in Albania as “false and basel...