ANKARA (AA) -The Nordic Resistance Movement (NRM), a neo-Nazi organization, is among those who have benefited from Sweden’s broad description of freedom of expression that makes the burning of Islamic religious scriptures “legal from a Swedish point of view.” Rasmus Paludan, an extremist Islamophobic Swedish-Danish politician...
ANKARA (AA) – Allowing the burning of a copy of the Muslim holy book in front of Türkiye’s Embassy in Stockholm was “a big mistake” and laws about hate crimes in the country should be changed, says the head of the Council of Jewish Communities in Sweden. Lena Posner-Korosi said that Sweden has a law […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern “stood by us” in delivering empathetic leadership, leaving her successor with “big shoes to fill,” say relatives of the victims of the 2019 Christchurch terrorist attack. “The news of her resignation (last week) came as a shock to many of us and took us a […]
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AA) – Jews from Netherlands have decried the recent desecration of the Muslim holy book in the Hague by far-right leader Edwin Wagensveld of the Islamophobic group Pegida. Rabbi Lody van de Kamp said Wagensveld’s act was an insult not only to Muslims in the country but also to anyone who held religious […]...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan has clarified that there is no backdoor diplomacy with arch-rival India at the moment. State Minister for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar told the upper house – the Senate – that there has been no back-channel diplomacy between the two nuclear-armed neighbors “untold to the rest of the world,” ever [&h...
UNITED STATES (AA) – The US voiced opposition Wednesday to any normalization measures with the Assad regime with its deputy UN ambassador saying the regime has not taken meaningful steps as the civil war nears its 12th year. “States contemplating rapprochement should carefully consider what the Assad regime has done to earn such an oppor...
ANKARA (AA) – France will withdraw its troops from Burkina Faso within a month, radio broadcaster Europe 1 reported on Wednesday. Burkina Faso on Monday requested that France withdraw its military, which was deployed to help local forces battle insurgents linked to the al-Qaeda and the ISIS. The West African country said it has decided [&helli...
ANKARA (AA) – The ban imposed on the screening of a BBC documentary about Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has triggered a controversy in the South Asian nation. On Wednesday, another university in the national capital New Delhi warned students against screening the documentary without “permission.” A student group at Delhi’s Jamia Mi...
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AA) – Somalia’s Information Minister Daud Aweis has claimed that the national army (SNA) with support from local militias has killed 323 al-Shabaab fighters in seven days. He said among the victories include the capture of Eldher, Haradhere and Galcad in Galmudug state. “The terrorists have [sic] been controlling thes...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Pakistani rupee tumbled to an all-time low on Thursday against the US dollar days after a cash-strapped Islamabad agreed to accept a key International Monetary Fund (IMF) demand for removal of an unofficial cap on exchange rate. The value of the dollar shot up by 24.25 Pakistani rupees to an […]