WASHINGTON (AA) – NATO will address Türkiye’s concerns about Sweden and Finland’s membership bids, the alliance’s chief said Thursday. “When an ally, Turkey, rises concerns, then we have to do what we always do in NATO and that is to sit down, address those concerns and then find a united way forward,” Jens ...
PARIS (AA) – In the first initiative of its kind, the Catholic Church in France will begin the process of paying reparations to victims of sexual abuse in the church, offering financial compensation of up to €60,000 (about $64,000), an independent commission set up to investigate the criminal cases announced on Wednesday. Marie Derain de...
RIYADH (AA) – Qatar has reiterated its readiness to contribute to every international and regional effort to find a peaceful solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Its pledge came during a meeting Wednesday held by Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in the ...
BRUSSELS – Belgian Muslims and Jews presented 127,000 signatures protesting a proposed ban on the slaughter of animals using their traditional religious rules, known respectively as halal and kosher. On the last day of about two weeks of debate over the proposed ban in the capital region, representatives of the Muslim and Jewish communities an...
Fnideq, Morocco – (AFP): Spain opened the borders of its North African enclaves Ceuta and Melilla to Moroccan workers on Tuesday, two years after their closure and following the resolution of a drawn-out diplomatic crisis. The European Union’s only borders on African soil had been shuttered in 2020 at the height of the coronavirus ...
BELGRADE, Serbia – Bosnia and Herzegovina marked White Ribbon Day in honor of thousands of innocent civilians killed in the western town of Prijedor in 1992. On May 31, 1992, the Serbian administration in Prijedor ordered the non-Serb population to wear white stripes on their arms when they left their houses- an order followed by […]
ANKARA – NATO “will chart the way ahead for the next decade” at its June summit in the Spanish capital Madrid, the alliance’s chief has said. “We will reset our deterrence and defense for a more dangerous world,” Jens Stoltenberg said at a ceremony in Spain marking the 40th anniversary of the country’s accession to […]
ANKARA (AA) – The EU has added a group and two people to its list of sanctions against the ISIS and al-Qaeda terrorist organizations. “The measures target Hurras al-Din, a Syria-based al-Qaeda affiliated group, its leader Faruq al-Suri, and its religious leader Sami al-Aridi,” read a statement from the European Council. The group has been [&he...
ANKARA (AA) – US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Turkey’s presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin exchanged views on the NATO bids of Sweden and Finland in a phone call on Monday. The global food crisis, energy security, bilateral relations, and developments in Syria and Ukraine were also discussed. During the call, it was un...
PARIS – France has demanded an urgent investigation into the death of journalist Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff, who was allegedly killed during a bombing campaign by Russian forces in Ukraine. Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna, who is on an official visit to Ukraine, described the death of the 32-year-old, who worked for French news channel B...