BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Commission has presented a new package to facilitate legal migration, in order to simplify residence and work permit rules for skilled workers. “Dealing with migration is not only about border checks, asylum procedures and returns, it is also about offering legal pathways for those who can come live and work ...
MOSCOW (AA) – Amid continued diplomatic fallout from the Ukraine war, Russia has declared three Norwegian diplomats persona non grata. The move was in response to Norway’s “unjustified” expulsion of three Russian diplomats on April 6, according to the Foreign Ministry. The ministry said it summoned Norwegian Ambassador Rune Resaland to hand ov...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian youth was killed by Israeli army fire during a raid in the occupied West Bank early Wednesday, according to the state news agency Wafa. Ahmed Mohamed Masad, 21, was shot in the head and died of his wounds in the town of Burqin, northwest of Jenin, Jani Abu Jokha, […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The EU on Wednesday criticized Tunisia over a recent presidential decree to restructure the country’s election body, saying it “risks reducing its independence.” In a statement, the European Union External Action Service (EEAS), the bloc’s diplomatic service, said the recently published decree to reform the Independent Hi...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday he hopes to reach an agreement with Ukraine diplomatically and that negotiations are underway and they do not reject them. Speaking ahead of his meeting with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Putin said Russia strongly supports the principles on which the UN is based and in...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett received a threatening letter Tuesday containing a bullet, local media reported. The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (KAN) reported that police have launched an investigation into the letter, which was sent to Bennett’s home in the city of Ra’anana in central Israel. Israel’...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – The Russia-Ukraine war has disrupted wheat exports, driving wheat prices up by 60% in Africa, the president of the African Development Bank (AfDB) said Tuesday, warning that the continent will lose up to $11 billion worth of food due to the conflict. “Already, the price of wheat has gone up about […]
BEIJING (AA) – China on Tuesday said no one wants the Russia-Ukraine conflict to turn into World War III. “No one wants to see a third world war break out,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters when asked about Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s comments on “a real threat of World War III.” […]...
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has demanded a “thorough investigation” into the attack in Pakistan’s financial hub Karachi that killed at least four people, including three Chinese citizens. An explosion ripped through a van near the University of Karachi’s Confucius Institute, a Chinese language learning center, on Tuesday. Amo...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Four Syrian soldiers were killed and three others were injured in an Israeli missile attack on the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, according to the state news agency SANA. Citing a military source, SANA said the Israeli military targeted several positions of the Bashar al-Assad regime’s forces in Damascus’ vic...
