BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina has identified another six victims from the genocide in the 1990s, according to an advocacy organizatiion. The Institute for Missing Persons said the victims had been missing since 1992 and their remains were found in different mass graves across the country in 2021. The Bosnian War was spar...
Edinburgh, United Kingdom (AFP): Humza Yousaf, the first Muslim leader of a major UK political party, faces an uphill battle to revive Scotland’s drive for independence following the long tenure of his close ally Nicola Sturgeon. The new and youngest Scottish National Party (SNP) leader, 37, says his own experience as an ethnic minority ...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) — The members of the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday elected Scottish National Party’s (SNP) leader Humza Yousaf as the new first minister. The 37-year-old received a chamber majority with 71 votes. Yousaf became the first Muslim to lead a major UK party, and is the first ethnic minority leader of a devolved […]...
Lisbon, Portugal (AFP): Two people died on Tuesday following a knife attack at an Islamic centre in the Portuguese capital Lisbon that wounded several others, police said. Prime Minister Antonio Costa said it was “premature to make any interpretation of this criminal act.” “Everything points to this being an isolated incident...
ANKARA (AA) – The French Senate besmirched its reputation by hosting PKK/YPG “terrorists and awarding them with a medal of honor,” the Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Tuesday. “The hosting of the representatives of the bloody PKK/YPG terrorist organization in the parliament of NATO member France casts a shadow...
LONDON (AA) – Scotland’s health secretary has been elected as the chair of the Scottish National Party (SNP) following 14 days of voting by the party members. Humza Yousaf became the first Muslim to lead a major UK party and is set to be confirmed as the first ethnic minority leader of a devolved government […]
ISTANBUL / BRUSSELS (AA) – The Kremlin has said that reactions from the West will not dislodge plans by Moscow to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighboring Belarus. “Such a reaction (from the West), of course, cannot affect Russia’s plans,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters in a press briefing in Mosco...
LONDON (AA) – The British monarchy should apologize for its connections to the transatlantic slave trade if it “truly cared about beginning to rectify its role,” says an anti-monarchy campaigning organization. The transatlantic slave trade, which is viewed as one of the darkest chapters in history, lasted for more than 400 ye...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye on Saturday strongly condemned a “vile attack” on the Muslim holy book, the Quran, and a Turkish flag in Denmark. Denouncing the late Friday incident as a “hate crime,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Ankara will never accept such “vile actions being allowed under the guise of freedom of expression.” The […]...
BERLIN (AA) – A German Foreign Ministry spokesman said Friday the latest talks between Iran and the E3 — Germany, France, UK — did not include efforts to resume stalled talks in Vienna to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. It was “expressly not about negotiations for the JPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action). As we […]...