BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina bade farewell to 16 more victims identified to have been killed in the Prijedor massacre. The 16 newly identified Bosniak Muslim civilians who were killed in the Bosnian war by Serbian forces between 1992 and 1995 were buried in a collective funeral at the Kamicani Memorial Center. At [&hell...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Union has kicked off accession negotiations with North Macedonia and Albania. The EU Commission head Ursula von der Leyen hailed the “historic moment” at a joint news conference with Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala, Albanian Premier Edi Rama and North Macedonia’s Prime Minister Dimitar Kovacevski. Von der Leyen pra...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Union has extended sanctions against Kurdish nationalist groups PKK and TAK, as well as Marxist revolutionary group DHKP/C for another 6 months as it updated its list of ‘terrorist’ entities. The EU’s terrorist list has been renewed and upheld for a further six months,the Council of the European Union a...
BRUSSELS (AA) – EU foreign ministers have reached a political agreement to send a further tranche of €500 million ($508 million) military aid for Ukraine. Speaking at a news conference after their meeting, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that the EU top diplomats “unanimously agreed on the need to continue to stand firmly […]...
PARIS (AA) – France signed a strategic energy cooperation agreement Monday with the United Arab Emirates to secure fuel and gas supplies as it moves to attain energy independence from Russia. Paris sealed the crucial energy deal on the first overseas state visit of UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who arrived in [&hellip...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The presidents of Türkiye and France discussed the decisions taken to facilitate Ukrainian grain exports at four-way talks held in Istanbul, according to the Turkish Communications Directorate. In a phone call, Recep Tayyip Erdogan told his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron that during the Istanbul meeting it was agreed ...
MADRID (AA) – Excess temperatures brought on by the heatwave that continues to wash over Spain and Portugal have killed at least 322 people. High temperatures in the first three days of the heatwave in Spain, which officially began on Sunday, killed 84 people, according to figures from the Carlos III Health Institute released on [&hellip...
ANKARA (AA) – Belgium on Friday appointed a seasoned journalist as its next foreign minister, local media reported. Hadja Lahbib, the former news anchor of Belgium’s public broadcaster RTBF, was chosen to succeed Sophie Wilmes after she formally resigned, according to the country’s Flemish-language broadcaster VRT. The develo...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran on Friday dismissed as baseless US claims about sending drones to Russia to use in its war in Ukraine. This came in a phone call between Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba. Amir-Abdollahian said the claims made by US National Security Adviser Jake Sulliv...
ANKARA (AA) – Turkish officials marked the sixth anniversary of the July 15, 2016 defeated coup attempt by the Fetullah Gulen Movement. The Turkish government dubs the Gulen Movement as the ‘Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO).’ The coup attempt and its aftermath involving Turkish security forces left at least 251 dead and...
