BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – The European Union has invited Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovar Prime Minister Albin Kurti to Brussels to find a solution to the car license plate crisis. EU spokesman Petar Stano on Friday said that the current crisis between Serbia and Kosovo is the most difficult situation since 2013. Tensions bet...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – A Bosnia and Herzegovina court on Friday sentenced former Bosnian Serb soldier Radovan Veljovic to seven years in prison for committing war crimes during the 1992-1995 war in the country. The court said that Veljovic, as a member of the Republika Srpska Army (VRS), was found guilty of raping a Bosniak […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijan’s president has said there is a need to modernize the EU’s Eastern Partnership initiative, launched in 2009 to foster ties between the bloc and several post-Soviet nations. In a meeting with the EU’s special envoy for the initiative, Ilham Aliyev said: “With respect to Eastern Partnershi...
BERLIN (AA) – A firefighter was arrested for his suspected role in an arson attack at a Ukrainian refugee hostel in northeastern Germany, the Bild newspaper reported Thursday. The 32-year-old volunteer firefighter, Nick P., was detained early Wednesday on arson charges — one month after the fire gutted the building in the village o...
DAKAR (AA) – France halted development assistance to Mali on Thursday, citing the presence of Wagner mercenaries, according to French media reports and Foreign Ministry officials. Humanitarian aid to Mali and support for select non-governmental groups will be maintained, said the reports. Media reports said the decision was made two to t...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Islamophobia in the US and Europe has triggered hatred against Muslims in other parts of the world, including the Asia Pacific region, according to a leading academic. “It is legitimate today to talk about the globalization of Islamophobia,” John Louis Esposito, a professor of international affairs and Islamic...
ROME (AA) – The Italian Catholic Church released its first accounting of alleged clergy sexual abuse against minors and vulnerable adults on Thursday, but victims’ associations said the actual number of cases was likely much higher and criticized its limited scope as “shameful.” The 41-page report revealed 89 presumed victims and a...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijan has rebuffed a French Senate resolution calling for sanctions against Baku and its withdrawal from territory liberated from Armenian occupation in 2020. The resolution was “completely far from the truth, reflects false and slanderous provisions, and having the character of open provocation, serves to unde...
ANKARA (AA) – People from different walks of life marched on Istanbul’s Istiklal Avenue to condemn Sunday’s terror attack which left at six people dead and 81 others injured. The unity and solidarity march brought together diplomats from several countries, representatives of different religions and NGOs, as well as tradesmen who to...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Regardless of who fired the missile that killed two people in eastern Poland, it is Russia that “bears ultimate responsibility” for the incident, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Wednesday. Austin said the “tragic and troubling incident is yet another reminder of the recklessness of Russia’s war of cho...
