BERLIN (AA) – German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on Iran to exercise restraint after Israel’s attack to avoid further escalation in the region. In a statement posted on social media, Scholz said the Israeli government has informed Berlin that it carried out “precise and targeted” strikes on Iran’s military facilities. “They have tr...
Muslims in Europe are confronting increasing levels of racism and discrimination, according to a new report from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA). The document notes a “sharp rise” in anti-Muslim sentiment, worsened by Israel’s war on Gaza since October 2023. That has ignited a wave of hostility across several EU nations...
ISTANBUL (AA) – King Charles III has acknowledged “painful aspects” of British colonial rule amid calls for slavery reparations. This came during an address to leaders and representatives of 56 Commonwealth nations at a summit in Samoa Pacific nation. In a veiled reference to past slavery across Asia, Africa and the Caribbean during the Britis...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has started to increase its military exports to Israel, official figures reveal. The German Foreign Ministry has confirmed that the government has approved exports of military equipment and weapons worth €94 million ($101.5 million) to Israel in the last three months. The figures were released in response to a parli...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Nearly half of Muslims living in Europe face discrimination in their daily lives, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has said in a scathing report. The report ‘Being Muslim in the EU’, based on 2022 data, highlighted a sharp increase in anti-Muslim sentiment, with 47% of Muslim respondents reporting racial d...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Official statistics on anti-Muslim hate crimes in the UK fail to reflect the true scale of the problem, as many incidents go unreported due to lack of trust in authorities, says a British academic. Peter Hopkins, a professor of social geography at Newcastle University, says that anti-Muslim hate crimes in the UK […...
LONDON (AA) – The Nordic countries have expressed “deep concern” over the recent introduction of draft legal bills in Israel’s parliament, fearing that if passed, Tel Aviv would prevent the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) from continuing its operations in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza. The Nordi...
ROME (AA) – The University of Milan has suspended an agreement with Israel’s Reichman University on an exchange of students and researchers after its rector, Marina Brambilla, met with a delegation of Palestinian students who had been pressing for a boycott of relations with Israeli universities. The university’s administration cited the...
In a heated controversy, senior French officials have rallied around Karim Bouamrane, a mayor of Moroccan descent after he was accused of keeping silent on Palestine. A researcher Pascal Boniface labeled Bouamrane “Muslim in appearance” and suggested his popularity is linked to his silence on Israeli actions in Palestine. Bouamrane, who previ...
ANKARA/ ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye’s president on Wednesday said that the “despicable” terror attack on facilities of Turkish Aerospace Industries (TAI) in the capital Ankara actually targeted the country’s “survival, peace and defense initiatives.” “The terrorist attack against TAI, one of the locomotive organizations of the Turkish defense indu...
