SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The European Union has called on Yemen’s Houthi rebels to engage constructively with UN efforts to address the crisis in the war-torn country. “The EU urges the Houthis to abandon maximalist positions and engage constructively with the UNSE (United Nations Special Envoy),” the EU Council said in a statement publ...
ANKARA (AA) – A Paris court Tuesday sentenced eight defendants in the 2016 Nice terror attacks to prison sentences of two to 18 years, local media reported. The attack on July 14, 2016 – Bastille Day – in Nice, southern France left 86 people dead and more than 400 others injured. The driver of a […]
BERLIN (AA) – A right-wing extremist and white supremacist, who was behind the 2019 Halle terror attack, took two prison guards hostage in Germany, but he was overwhelmed by other guards, authorities said. The incident occurred on Monday at a prison in Burg in the eastern Saxony-Anhalt state. According to the Justice Ministry, Stephan Balliet ...
IZMIR, Türkiye (AA) – A prominent politician in Sweden is pushing for the passage of a bill that would ban headscarves in the Swedish police force. The proposed law may also be extended to all public employees, Richard Jomshof, the chairman of parliament’s Justice Committee, said Monday. He hopes that the coalition of four right-wing [&h...
ANKARA (AA) – Greece never misses a chance to raise tensions in the Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean, Turkiye’s national defense minister said on Monday. On Athens’ recent military drills and violation of the demilitarized status of Aegean islands, Husuli Akar said: “Greece is making every attempt to increase the te...
BERLIN (AA) – The G-7 group of the world’s major economic powers has decided to establish an international climate club to tackle global warming, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has announced. “The Climate Club is not intended to be a G-7 initiative; rather, it is to be a global undertaking,” Scholz told a news conference in [&...
PARIS (AA) – Under pressure from far-right, the French President is working on an immigration draft law which human rights groups said would raise fears. The first step before the official presentation of the new immigration bill, there have been long debates on France’s migration policy. The proposed law must combine “firmness and human...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed defense cooperation and energy infrastructure issues in a phone call with his US counterpart Joe Biden, with the two agreeing on the need to bolster Kyiv’s air defenses. In a tweet, Zelenskyy said the pair had “a fruitful conversation” focused on “further defense cooperation, pr...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A former Libyan intelligence officer accused of being behind the tragic bombing of a civilian airliner more than three decades ago made his initial appearance in a US court on Monday. Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir al-Marimi appeared for a largely procedural hearing in which he was read his rights and officially [&hell...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Sunday urged Serbs in Kosovo to respect the NATO-led Kosovo Force (KFOR) and European Union Rule of Law Mission (EULEX) forces. Vucic’s remarks came in his address to the nation after a meeting of the security council in the capital Belgrade. ”We have received assu...
