BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnian Serbs held celebrations Monday to mark the anniversary of the founding of the entity Republika Srpska (RS) in defiance of a ruling by Bosnia’s top court. The commemorations, which were supported by senior members of the Republika Srpska government and Serbia, kicked off with a parade in East Sarajevo. Amon...
ANKARA (AA) – Marginalizing Muslims as being somehow “not French” serves to stoke hatred and is “intolerable,” according to France’s justice minister. “Saying that Muslims are not as French as others is intolerable,” Eric Dupond-Moretti told the media, criticizing remarks by controversial French writer Michel Houellebec...
BERLIN (AA) – German police arrested an Iranian citizen on suspicion of planning a chemical terror attack, authorities said on Sunday. The 32-year-old man was arrested in the western city of Castrop-Rauxel after special police forces stormed his home. “The accused is suspected of having prepared a serious act of violence,” Dusseldorf pro...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – NATO peacekeepers, known as the Kosovo Force, or KFOR, have refused Serbia’s request to deploy its security forces to Kosovo, President Aleksandar Vucic said on Sunday. Vucic in December requested that up to 1,000 police and military personnel return to Kosovo in line with UN Security Council Resolution 1244...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AA) – Since June 15, 2021, a total of 6,420 people have applied for compensation as relatives of 350 victims of the Srebrenica genocide during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia, the spokesman for the Netherlands Compensation Commission Potocari has said. Frank Neervoort noted that the commission paid 860 victims’ ...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AA) – The second most popular name for boys in the Netherlands in 2022 was Muhammad, according to new figures. According to data released by the Dutch Social Insurance Bank (SVB) on Thursday, the top name for newborn boys in the country last year was also based in faith – Noah, with 871 […]
Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP): Mourners gathered Thursday in Iraqi Kurdistan for the politically charged funeral of activist Emine Kara, one of three Kurds killed in a December attack in Paris. Members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which has been waging a decades-long insurgency against Turkey, were among the dozens at the procession...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Russia on Friday started a 36-hour unilateral cease-fire in Ukraine on the occasion of the Orthodox Christmas. On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered Defense Minister Sergey Shoygu to introduce a cease-fire regime along the entire line of contact with Ukraine from 12 noon local time (0900GMT) on Friday till...
GENEVA (AA) – The German Teachers’ Association head has called for quotas for students with an immigrant background in German schools. “We have an integration problem in Germany,” Heinz-Peter Meidinger told the German daily Bild. If integration is to be successful, “mandatory preschool support, nationwide language...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Nine countries have withdrawn their recognition of Kosovo’s independence, Serbia’s president has claimed. “We are small, but as things stand in the world, as many as 106 countries do not recognize the independence of Kosovo. Nine of them have withdrawn their recognition: Somalia, Burkina Faso, Ga...
