Sollentuna, Sweden (AFP): A former Iranian prison official sentenced for life in prison in Sweden for crimes committed during a 1988 purge of dissidents appeared in court again Wednesday as his appeals trial opened. The case relates to the killing of at least 5,000 prisoners across Iran, allegedly ordered by supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini, ...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (AFP): France’s deputy foreign minister, on a visit to its former colony Burkina Faso, on Tuesday denied accusations that Paris sought to meddle in the country’s affairs. Speaking after talks with junta leader Captain Ibrahim Traore, junior minister Chrysoula Zacharopoulou said France “is imposing no...
LONDON (AA) – The UK Border Force late last year detected a package containing a small, harmless amount of uranium at London’s Heathrow Airport and an investigation is continuing, the British police said in a statement. “I want to reassure the public that the amount of contaminated material was extremely small and has been as...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Two Spanish women and their 12 children have been repatriated from Syria, where they had allegedly moved to join the ISIS in 2014, according to the Spanish daily El Pais. Government sources told the Spanish media that the families landed in the Torrejon de Ardoz military airbase outside Madrid late Monday […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AA) – The European Union has launched two new initiatives worth $27 million in order to support vulnerable people and fight food insecurity in cash-strapped Lebanon. “These initiatives are a response to the negative impact of Russia’s war against Ukraine on the European Union’s neighboring countries,” the EU Delega...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Belgian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday it summoned the Iranian ambassador because of reports that Tehran had sentenced a Belgian aid worker to 40 years in prison for spying. “Iran has provided no official information regarding the charges against Olivier Vandecasteele or his trial,” the ministry said in a state...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said Tuesday that his country will vote against Kosovo’s membership to European bodies. Hungary’s position is that admitting Kosovo into certain European organizations would jeopardize the reaching of a compromise, he said. “The premature admission of Kosovo ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Kosovo’s Prime Minister Albin Kurti said Tuesday that Serbia should be pressured to accept a German-French proposal to normalize relations. The proposal is thought to be a way of speeding up Serbia’s EU membership process in exchange for its recognition of Kosovo. Kurti said Serbia is the one rejecting the p...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijan has demanded an apology from France over “slander” during the 2020 Karabakh war with Armenia. “During the conflict, France openly accused us, slandered us. I demanded an apology from them. They slandered us without even any evidence,” the country’s President Ilham Aliyev said on Tu...
BERLIN (AA) – A German politician has caused outrage with a racist video he published on social media. Thomas Bäppler-Wolf, a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) from the state of Hesse who has been a councilor for the city of Frankfurt since July 2016, commented on riots that broke out on […]
