BRUSSELS (AA) – Bosnia-Herzegovina has joined the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, a solidarity network providing support in case of natural disasters. “Today we are taking an important step towards stronger European crisis response,” the EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic said, announcing Bosnia-Herzegovina’s full membership i...
Algiers, Algeria (AFP): Algeria is a “reliable” energy supplier, European Council President Charles Michel said on Monday during a visit to the North African country as Europe scrambles to replace Russian supplies. “Given the international circumstances that we’re all aware of, energy cooperation is obviously essential,...
ANKARA (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron’s recent remarks in Algeria were “unfortunate,” as Türkiye does not see any country as a competitor in Africa or in other places, the Turkish foreign minister has said. “Türkiye comes among the top countries that countries trust. Thus it is not right to see Türkiye as...
LONDON (AA) – British Home Secretary Priti Patel on Monday resigned her post hours after Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was elected by Conservative Party members their new leader. Truss will meet Queen Elizabeth II on Tuesday where she will be formally named prime minister and asked to form a new government. She will then announce […]
ANKARA (AA) – A trial opened in a French court on Monday over a July 2016 attack in the Mediterranean city of Nice which left 86 people dead. On July 14, 2016, Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel plowed a 19-ton truck at a crowd gathered on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, leaving 86 people dead and […]
KHARKIV, Ukraine (AA) – Ukraine has taken back three settlements from Russian forces, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has claimed. Without going into specifics, Zelenskyy said in a video message that one of the reclaimed territories was in the eastern Donetsk region and two in the country’s south. He said Ukrainian forces also “regained certain ...
LONDON (AA) – British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss on Monday was elected by Conservative Party members to lead her party and become the nation’s next prime minister. Truss, 46, got 81,326 votes to 60,399 votes for former Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, 42. Turnout was 82.6%. Truss did not get the landslide many commentators […]...
BERLIN (AA) – Israel is “deeply concerned” about a possible nuclear agreement between world powers and Iran, its President Isaac Herzog said on Sunday. Speaking alongside German President Frank Walter Steinmeier in Berlin, Herzog said they are closely following the ongoing talks to revive the 2015 nuclear deal. “We’re extremely wor...
ANKARA (AA) – A fire completely burnt down a mosque in northern France late Friday night, local media reported, with authorities suspecting an arson attack. The incident took place at the Rambouillet mosque in the Yvelines department of the Ile-de-France region, according to Le Parisien newspaper. An investigation has been launched to as...
ANKARA (AA) – Greece’s harassment of Turkish jets over the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean Seas could have “dangerous consequences,” according to the spokesperson of Türkiye’s AK Party. “This is something that the world today never wants,” Omer Celik told reporters in the capital Ankara Thursday after...
