Algiers, Algeria – (AFP) Algeria marks 60 years of independence from France on Tuesday with a huge military parade, but memories of violence during the colonial period continue to overshadow ties between the two. The North African country won its independence following a gruelling eight-year war, which ended with the signing in March 196...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on Sunday vowed to abide by the recent agreement with Türkiye, including pledges on extradition of terrorists. Speaking at the annual political festival Almedalen Week in Gotland, Andersson said she could not share specific details of the memorandum signed with Türkiye and Finla...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ukraine has accused Russia of firing phosphorus bombs on Snake Island, according to media reports. Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valeriy Zaluzhny said Russia carried out air strikes and dropped phosphorus bombs on the island, according to the Ukrainian national news agency, Ukrinform. “The leadership of the ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The EU has condemned civilians deaths in the Syrian conflict in a statement issued on July 1. “The EU condemns in the strongest terms these crimes causing the deaths of so many civilians over more than a decade of conflict. These crimes were mostly perpetrated by the Syrian regime and its allies, […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed to the Kremlin his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo, who is in Russia on a working visit. Putin said the trade turnover between Russia and Indonesia has grown 42% in the past year and continues to pick up the pace. “I know that Indonesia has shown interest in […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – The UK military experts will not enter Bosnia-Herzegovina legally, a Serb member of Bosnia’s tripartite presidency has said. Milorad Dodik’s remarks came after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced that UK military specialists will be sent to Bosnia-Herzegovina to reinforce the NATO mission and promote st...
ANKARA (AA) – Ukraine has cut off diplomatic relations with Syria as the latter recognized the self-proclaimed independence of Ukraine’s Donetsk and Luhansk regions. “There is no doubt that the Syrian regime is trying to give pseudo-subjectivity to the Russian occupying administrations in Donetsk and Luhansk at the behest of its Kremlin ...
PARIS (AA) – One person has been indicted by a court in Paris and nine others may soon be charged over the deaths of 27 migrants in the English Channel in November 2021. French police arrested 13 men and two women for their involvement in what the UN migration agency had described as the “worst […]
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Sweden fully supports the NATO accession agreement reached with Türkiye, the country’s prime minister has said. “We are 100% behind the agreement,” Magdalena Andersson told reporters. Sweden and Finland had formally applied to join the alliance last month- a decision spurred by Russia’s war on Ukraine. However, Türkiye voiced ...
PARIS (AA) – The Brussels Criminal Court delivered a three-year suspended prison sentence on Thursday to Abid Aberkane, the last “landlord” of the now-convicted Salah Abdeslam, the ringleader of the November 13, 2015, attacks in Paris, according to French newspaper Le Monde. Aberkane hosted Abdeslam in Brussels in the spring of 2016, as he fle...
