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Tehran, Iran (AFP): Iran on Monday expressed its readiness for a long-awaited prisoner swap with Belgium, days after the European country’s Constitutional Court gave the green light for such a move. Following the decision “by the Belgian Constitutional Court, we can now say that the way to implement the agreement has been opened, a...
LONDON (AA) – British Home Secretary Suella Braverman said a new bill that will be brought to the House of Commons on Tuesday will “stop the boats” carrying migrants across the Channel. Speaking to The Telegraph, ahead of her statement in parliament, Braverman said: “We must stop the boats and that’s what our Bill will […]
WARSAW (AA) — A television report on Monday about St. John Paul II alleged that he actively covered up cases of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in his native Poland before becoming pope in 1978. John Paul is a Polish icon who was pope during the last decade of the Cold War and is […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A delegation of European ambassadors and consuls visited Palestinian towns in the occupied West Bank that were subjected to violence by Israeli settlers. EU representative Sven Kuhn von Burgsdorff headed the delegation comprising about 20 ambassadors and consuls. The delegations visited the towns of Huwara, Zat...
MADRID (AA) – Portuguese Bishops have ‘apologized’ to victims of sexual abuse in Portugal’s Catholic Church. The bishops met in the sacred town of Fatima at a plenary meeting of the Portuguese Episcopal Conference (CEP). The CEP released a statement after the meeting, apologizing to victims across the country. The move ...
BRUSSELS (AA) – Belgium’s Constitutional Court has ruled that a prisoner transfer treaty with Iran is legal. The court rejected an appeal to suspend the treaty with Iran, paving the way for the release of Belgian national Olivier Vandecasteele in exchange for Iranian diplomat Assadolah Assadi, who was convicted in Belgium for a pla...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Constitutional Court on Thursday repealed a controversial immovable property law in the Republika Srpska (RS) entity. The court’s decision came after the High Representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina announced Monday that he had suspended the law a day before it was expected to...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – The next round of dialogue for normalization of relations between Serbia and Kosovo will be held in North Macedonia later this month, the EU’s special envoy has said. Talks will be held in the southwestern tourist hub of Ohrid, according to Miroslav Lajcak, the EU special representative for Serbia-Kosovo dialogue....
Crotone, Italy (AFP): Survivors of a shipwreck off southern Italy wept over their dead, as relatives of some of the 67 people who drowned arrived from other countries to claim their loved ones. Emergency workers continue to search for the dead, with the body of a five-year-old boy the latest to be recovered on Wednesday […]
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AA) – The Danish government has rejected a far-right political party’s demand for a parliamentary debate about headscarves in schools. Immigration Minister Kaare Dybvad Bek said in a written comment that the proposed ban would be contrary to the Danish law and the country’s global commitments. “It is the legal ...
