PARIS (AA) – France has expressed concern over recent “violent incidents” at the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in Israeli-occupied East Jerusalem. “We expressed concern about the violent incidents in Al-Aqsa Mosque,” said Foreign Ministry spokesperson Francois Delmas when asked to comment on Israeli police’s...
LONDON (AA) – Hundreds gathered on Friday at the iconic Royal Albert Hall in London as part of an open ‘iftar’ — the feast for the opening of the fast in the evenings in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. About 450 people gathered for the fast-breaking meal hosted by the Ramadan Tent Project, an […]
GENEVA (AA) – Muslims are structurally discriminated against by banks and financial institutions in the Netherlands, as a result of the law to stop money laundering and terrorism funding, according to the national coordinator against discrimination and racism. Rabin Baldewsingh told Dutch daily Trouw that he receives extra signals from M...
LONDON (AA) – Hundreds of demonstrators staged a protest Friday outside the Israeli Embassy in London against attacks on Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied East Jerusalem. The emergency protest was called for by various NGOs and Palestinian solidarity campaign groups, including Friends of Al Aqsa, Palestinian Forum in Britain and Stop the Wa...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that NATO is building up its forces and means along the member countries’ borders with Moscow and Minsk. “NATO forces and assets are being built up near the borders of Belarus and the Russian Federation, they are especially concerned about the Kaliningrad region,” L...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Kremlin has said that Russia would respond “appropriately” to the deployment of American nuclear weapons in military bases in Europe. Speaking to reporters in Moscow following a meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: “In general, the i...
Beijing, China (AFP): French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he was counting on his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to “bring Russia to its senses” over its war in Ukraine. The French president, who arrived on Wednesday for a three-day state visit, has made clear he is seeking to dissuade China from supporting Russia̵...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Union is “deeply concerned” by the violence at Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and calls on all parties to show restraint at a time of religious holidays, an EU official has said. Speaking at the European Commission’s daily news briefing, Peter Stano, lead spokesperson on foreign affairs, confirmed that the EU [&hellip...
LONDON (AA) – English Premier League football club Aston Villa on Wednesday hosted its first-ever Open Iftar, a community event during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan in the UK, at its home stadium Villa Park. Hundreds of people gathered at Villa Park in Birmingham as part of the event, which was held in collaboration […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) — Residents in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital Sarajevo marked on April 5 the 31st anniversary of the city’s nearly four-year siege during the brutal Bosnia War. Dozens paid their respects and left flowers on the Vrbanja Bridge River, where Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sucic, the first victims of the Bosnian War...