LONDON (AA) – Denmark has been known as a liberal society with regard to human rights. However, it has officially taken one of the hardest lines on asylum and migration in recent years. It has become the first country in Europe to revoke residence permits for Syrian refugees. A 12-year-old Syrian, Ghazal Sbinati, has spent […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Police in Bosnia and Herzegovina has arrested the country’s human rights and refugee minister as part of a corruption investigation. Minister Milos Lucic is accused of abusing his office by using his official bank card to pay for private services, taking money for fictitious trips, and using his official car...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – The United Nations recently held a week-long training session for Iraqi judges and prosecutors in international criminal law for trying ISIS members for committing crimes against humanity and war crimes. The head of the United Nations Investigative Team to Promote Accountability for Crimes Committed by Da’esh/ISIL (...
ANKARA (AA) – The trial for the Brussels attacks of 2016 which killed 32 people began on Monday. Six years after the attacks, 10 men accused of being members of the ISIS are on trial, one of them in absentia as he is believed to have been killed in Syria. Two attacks hit the Zaventem […]
AMSTERDAM (AA) – Pope John Paul II covered up abuse by priests decades before he reached the top position in the Catholic Chruch, says a Dutch investigative journalist. The Pope ignored the sexual abuse of minors by some priests under his administration in Krakow, Poland, where he was archbishop, Ekke Overbeek said. The news in […...
ROMA (AA) – Clashes broke out Sunday in Italy after far-right and left-wing activists held separate rallies against the Russia-Ukraine war. A group of about 300 far-right and pro-Russia activists gathered in Piazzale Cadorna in the center of Milan to protest against the sending of weapons to Ukraine and the expansion of anti-Russian sanctions....
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The European Union has called for conducting an investigation into the killing of Palestinian civilians by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank. In a statement on Twitter on Saturday, the EU said Israeli forces appear to use excessive “lethal force”, citing that 10 Palestinians were killed by...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – A desecrated Quran was left Friday near the entrance to a mosque in Stockholm in an Islamophobic attack. Images shared by the Stockholm Mosque show the damaged holy book of the Muslims chained up and hanging from an iron railing outside the mosque. The mosque said in a statement that it and […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – China has slammed the visit of a British lawmakers group to Taiwan, calling it “gross interference” in its internal affairs. “In disregard of China’s firm opposition the relevant UK MPs went ahead with their visit to the ‘Taiwan region’ of China,” said a spokesperson for the Chinese Embassy in the UK. A ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Slamming a new French resolution on what Paris calls “aggression” against Armenia, Azerbaijan has called the move “another provocation by France.” “The false and slanderous anti-Azerbaijan resolution adopted in the lower chamber (National Assembly) of the French Parliament on November 30, 2022 is another provocation by Fr...
