BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR) said Sunday that it is prepared to intervene if stability is jeopardized in the northern municipalities of Kosovo after alleged conflicts at the Serbian border. ”The overall security situation in the northern municipalities of Kosovo is tense. The NATO-led KFOR mission is clo...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Kosovo decided Sunday to postpone the implementation of a new law set to come into effect Monday making it mandatory for everyone, including Serbs living in Kosovo, to have a Kosovo ID card and license plate. According to local media, the US ambassador to Kosovo, Jeff Hovenier, asked the Kurti government […...
ANKARA (AA) – A senior French officer warned Australia that owning nuclear-powered subs bought from the US and UK will be “much more difficult” than the plan it scrapped to build a new fleet of conventionally powered boats, local media said on Friday. French Vice Adm. Nicolas Vaujour, chief of operations of the joint staff [&hellip...
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – Algeria has resumed commercial operations with Spain after Algerian Banks Association announced the suspension of a decision that had frozen trade exchanges with Spain. Banking institutions operating in Algeria received a new directive earlier on July 28 stating that the decision to “stop any commercial operations...
BEIRUT (AA) – A Syrian ship carrying stolen grain from Ukraine anchored in Lebanon’s Tripoli Port, a Lebanese minister has said. “The Ministry of Agriculture and the General Customs Office are following the developments regarding the Syrian ship, which carried stolen flour and barley of Ukraine and anchored in Tripoli Port,” Lebanese Tra...
ANKARA (AA) – Russia has said that at least 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed and 75 others wounded in an overnight attack by Ukraine at a pre-trial detention center in the Russia-controlled territory of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. A majority of those killed were captured at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol city, […]
ANKARA (AA) – The European Union’s borders must remain open to asylum seekers, Germany’s foreign minister said in Greece on Friday, a pointed remark that increases pressure on Athens over its widely criticized policy of deadly and illegal migrant pushbacks. Annalena Baerbock’s remarks came at a joint press conference with her Greek counterpart...
RAMALLAH (AA) – Palestine’s Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh met Germany’s Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office Tobias Lindner in Ramallah on Thursday. Shtayyeh urged Germany to recognize the state of Palestine in line with Berlin’s “belief in the option of the two-state solution and the importance of preserving it,” according to a ...
LONDON (AA) – Over 104,000 Ukrainians have settled in the UK through special visa schemes, British government figures showed on Thursday. The two visa initiatives are the Ukraine Family Scheme and the Homes for Ukraine Scheme. In a statement, the British government thanked the British public for their “generosity and goodwill.” “We would not b...
ANKARA (AA) – Russia has warned of “retaliatory measures” if Russian citizens are denied Schengen visas. Calling a possible ban on Schengen visas for Russians “emotionally driven,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Kremlin hopes an initiative by Finland towards that end is not implemented. Moscow will “react very neg...
