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...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – The government in Somalia said Friday that the UN Security Council’s army embargo extension impedes the nation’s efforts to rebuild its national army and security forces to counter terror threats. Mogadishu urged the UN to “seriously consider” the Africa Union Peace & Security Communique in July that called for th...
HEBRON CITY, Palestine (AA) – Israeli authorities on Friday kicked out a Palestinian family from their home in Hebron’s Old City in the southern occupied West Bank. The Hebron Municipality rejected the move by Tel Aviv, asserting in a statement that the home was municipal property. It added that the family of Bader Batesh, who [&he...
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...
RAMALLAH (AA) – Israeli authorities on Friday handed over the body of a teenager to Palestinian authorities two months after he was shot dead by the Israeli army. “The handover of Haitham Mubarak’s body took place at the Israeli Karamilo checkpoint, east of Ramallah, in the center of the West Bank,” said the Palestinian...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia said on Friday that it and China had switched to national currencies in their trade for natural gas, implementing a deal they signed in early September. Noting that Beijing already paid for Russian gas on the basis of the ruble-yuan parity, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in a televised interview […...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): Several hundred journalists, civil society members and political party representatives demonstrated Friday in Senegal’s capital to demand the release of a journalist and government critic detained earlier this month. Journalist union representatives marched along a boulevard near the Dakar city centre, chanting R...
ANKARA/BAKU, Azerbaijan (AA) – Azerbaijan will open its embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, and a representative office in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, following parliamentary approval on Friday. Azerbaijan will also open its embassies in Albania and Kenya. Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid welcomed Azerbaijan’s decision. “The decision to ...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia and the US will hold meetings in Egypt’s capital Cairo from Nov. 29 to Dec. 6 to iron out differences related to the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), according to Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov. Nothing is off the table for Russia, Ryabkov told local news channel RTVI. However, […]
