GUMULCINE, Greece (AA) – Türkiye’s intervention has managed to thwart Greece’s plan to build a football field over an Ottoman-era Muslim cemetery in Western Thrace that had been demolished earlier this year. A cemetery belonging to the Turkish minority in Horozlu (Petinos), a village in Western Thrace’s Xanthi region, was destroyed by Greek au...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic late Wednesday announced the removal of barricades in northern Kosovo after being assured by the US and EU that there will be no arrests. Vucic’s remarks came after holding talks with representatives of Serbs in Kosovo. Serbia has received guarantees from the US and EU that...
Lyon, France (AFP): French authorities have been investigating as suicide the drowning of an Iranian man in the southeastern city of Lyon. The man had said on social media he was going to kill himself to draw attention to the crackdown against protests in Iran. Mohammad Moradi, 38, was found in the Rhone river that […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Serbian police arrested on Tuesday an Albanian national who is suspected of terrorism, according to the Interior Ministry. The Security Intelligence Agency (BIA) together with Interior Ministry forces conducted an operation by order of the Prosecutor’s Office in the southern city of Bujonavac where Albanians...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ukraine issued an official statement on Monday announcing its initiative to deprive Russia of its status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and to exclude it from the UN. “Ukraine calls on the member states of the UN to resume the application of the UN Charter in the context […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has ordered combat readiness for the armed forces and security services at the highest level, said Defense Minister Milos Vucevic on Monday. The aim is to protect the territorial integrity of Serbia, he said. “It raises us to the highest level of action carried out by the [&helli...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye rescued a total of 384 irregular migrants on Monday, including many who were illegally pushed back into Turkish territorial waters by Greek authorities, according to the Turkish Coast Guard. In the first incident, teams were dispatched off the coast of Ayvacik in the northwestern Canakkale province after the coast g...
PARIS (AA) – The Paris prosecutor on Monday demanded the detention of a gunman, who was referred for indictment, after he gunned down at least three people in the French capital last week. On Friday, a 69-year-old gunman – retired train driver William M., reportedly a gun enthusiast with a history of weapons offenses – […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday that Moscow has always sought to resolve all disputes through negotiations. “We have always sought to ensure that all disputes that arise are resolved by peaceful means through negotiations. But unfortunately, the other side (Russia’s opponents) felt differently,” Puti...
PARIS (AA) – A 69-year-old French man who is suspected of shooting three people dead in Paris has confessed to having an extreme hatred of foreigners, local media outlets said Sunday, a day after he was transferred to a police psychiatric unit for evaluation. The man was later discharged from the unit and retaken into […]
