NICE, France (AA) – France has repatriated 40 French children and their 15 mothers from camps in Syria, the French government has said. The minors have been transferred to “child welfare services and will be subject to medical-social monitoring” while “adults have been handed over to the judicial authorities,” the Foreign Ministry said i...
AMMAN (AA) – In a tiff over a radio license application, Jordan has condemned the Dutch ambassador to the country for interfering in internal matters. Dutch envoy Harry Verweij requested a radio broadcast license for a citizen of a third country during a courtesy meeting with State Minister for Media Affairs Faisal al-Shboul, according to [&he...
ANKARA (AA) – Azerbaijan has denounced the move to send a mission of Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) to Armenia, saying that no discussions were made within the organization. “The issue of sending an ‘OSCE needs assessment mission’ was never discussed by any collective decision-making body of the OSCE, and as a [&he...
LONDON (AA) – The UK has announced new sanctions on Iranian individuals and businesses “responsible for supplying Russia with kamikaze drones used to bombard Ukraine.” Russia is using the drones “to attack both civilian targets and critical infrastructure in Kyiv and across Ukraine, with the intention of cutting off Ukrainian people from...
KYIV, Ukraine (AA) – Ukraine’s president urged the European Union on Thursday to speed up shipments of air defense systems, noting that nearly a third of the country’s power stations have been destroyed in Russian attacks. In a video address to an EU leaders meeting in Brussels, Volodymyr Zelenskyy discussed the latest developments regar...
BERLIN (AA) – A shelter for Ukrainian refugees in northern Germany has been razed to the ground in a blaze. None of the 14 refugees dwelling in the shelter was injured on Wednesday evening as the flames consumed the building. The place had once been used as a hotel in Gross Stromkendorf, in the state […]
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has violated European Convention on Human Rights by denying independent, effective investigation into racial profiling by police officers, Europe’s top human rights court has ruled. The judgment was delivered after a German national of Indian origin, who became the victim of racial discrimination, brought his ...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The EU has evidence that Iran is providing Russia with unmanned aerial vehicles for its war against Ukraine and is working towards new sanctions against Tehran, a spokesperson has said. Nabila Massrali of the European Commission said at a briefing in Brussels that they had collected “sufficient evidence” about...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – Russia’s deputy UN ambassador has said that he is not ”optimistic” about the renewal of a deal brokered by Türkiye and the UN that allows Ukrainian grain and fertilizer exports. ”It depends what we get from this deal. So far, we’ve gotten very little,” Dmitry Polyanskiy told Anadolu Age...
Rabat, Morocco (AFP): The European Union and Morocco have signed a “green partnership” deal they hope will bolster cooperation on renewable energy. The sun-baked North African country is seeking to offer alternatives for European nations trying to wean themselves off fossil fuels, whose prices have soared following Russia’s i...
