BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – The European Union is concerned about the security situation in northern Kosovo and is monitoring it closely, a European Commission spokesman has said. Muslim-majority Kosovo has begun deploying more police units to the north of the country as tensions are escalating between ethnic Serbs and the Kosovar government...
ROME (AA) – Italy has given the authorization to disembark to two nongovernmental rescue ships that were waiting in the Mediterranean Sea with more than 500 irregular migrants. French-based medical charity ‘Doctors Without Borders’ wrote on Twitter that the Geo Barents ship with 248 migrants had been allowed to dock at the Sa...
BERLIN (AA) – Thousands of migrants have been beaten, humiliated and arbitrarily detained at the EU’s external borders before being illegally pushed back, a new damning report by a group of human rights organizations has revealed. The Border Violence Monitoring Network has documented hundreds of cases, in which European border guards use...
BRUSSELS (AA) – Belgium’s Constitutional Court suspended an agreement Thursday on the extradition of an Iranian diplomat who was jailed on terrorism charges. An appeal against the law allowing the extradition of Assadolah Assadi was filed earlier this year at the Belgian Constitutional Court and a first instance court had approved ...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Kosovo began deploying more police units late Thursday to the north of the country as tensions rose between ethnic Serbs and the Pristina government, according to the Interior Ministry. Local media reported that non-Serb units of the Kosovo police had started entering the northern areas of Mitrovica to ensure secu...
BERLIN (AA) – A group of far-right leaders and ex-military officers who plotted a coup in Germany had procured weapons and had concrete plans, the country’s domestic intelligence chief has claimed. “This group had a large network across the country, they had precise plans, they had been prepared to use violence, even if that meant […]...
ROME – Italian police detained 13 far-right activists in the northern city of Verona suspected of attacking Moroccan fans celebrating a historic World Cup win against Spain late Tuesday, media reports said Thursday. The Moroccan supporters were attacked by a group of men dressed in black with their faces covered up, police said in a [&he...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – The situation in Kosovo is so flammable and tense that one spark is enough to light it, and everything can go in an undesirable direction, Serbia’s defense minister said on Wednesday. Milos Vucevic was speaking to a local television channel, evaluating relations between his country and Kosovo. ”The atmospher...
BERLIN (AA) – The German government will take resolute measures to combat Islamophobia, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Wednesday. Faeser delivered a speech at the German Islam Conference, a forum for dialogue between authorities and the representatives of the Muslim community. “Many people face racism each and every day in German...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The European Union has frozen cooperation with the Israeli police due to concerns regarding the upcoming government’s policy, according to the Israeli media. Last September, Israel and the EU signed a draft agreement to improve the transfer of intelligence information. The deal, however, needs approval by the European Pa...
