GENEVA (AA) – Amid reports of surging cases in Europe, a special committee of the World Health Organization began meeting Thursday to decide whether monkeypox should be declared a global “public health emergency.” The emergency committee will advise the WHO chief “on whether the event constitutes a Public Health Emergency of Internationa...
ISTANBUL (AA) – British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss hailed relations between her country and Türkiye during a meeting Wednesday with Vice President Fuat Oktay in the Turkish capital Ankara. “Türkiye is an important partner for the UK. We are key European NATO allies,” Truss wrote on Twitter following the meeting. “I met Vice President @fuatokt...
BRUSSELS (AA) – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has said that he discussed Türkiye’s security concerns with Sweden’s prime minister. “(I) spoke with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on Sweden’s NATO application and the security concerns raised by our Ally Türkiye,” Stoltenberg stated in a Twitter post. He stressed that “talks on th...
Hamza Taouzzale has been elected as First Citizen by London’s Westminster City Council. The 22-year-old is the city’s first incumbent from a Black, Asian or minority ethnic background. Taouzzale recently graduated from King’s College London with a master’s degree in global affairs. He was elected to represent the interests of the people of Wes...
On Tuesday, France’s highest administrative court upheld a ban on the burkini under a new “secularism framework”. It prohibits women from wearing the full-length swimwear in public pools. The Council of State confirmed the suspension of the internal regulations of the swimming pools passed in May by the city of Grenoble. The city had authoriz...
BERLIN (AA) – Russia’s interruption of natural gas shipments to Europe via the Nord Stream pipeline on the grounds of technical problems is an “economic attack,” Germany’s federal minister for economic affairs and climate action has said. Robert Habeck said the cut is part of Russian President Vladimir Putin’...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin has said that she believes the problem regarding Türkiye’s opposition to Finland and Sweden’s NATO membership will be resolved before the alliance’s summit in Madrid later this month. Marin’s remarks came at a joint press conference with her Croatian counterpart...
PARIS (AA) – The highest administrative court in France has upheld a ban on the ‘burkini’ under a new “secularism framework.” The ‘burkini’ is a full-body swimming costume that allows Muslim women to participate in the sport while observing the religious commandment for modest covering. The ban will effectively pr...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US found remarks “appalling” by a Russian official who said Tuesday that two American “mercenaries” in the hands of the Russians could be executed. “It’s appalling that a public official in Russia would even suggest the death penalty for two American citizens that were in Ukraine,...
ANKARA (AA) – Firefighters and other personnel are intervening by land and air to control a wildfire that broke out overnight in a forest in southern Türkiye, an official said Wednesday. The cause of the fire in Marmaris district of Mugla province is still unknown. The flames spread in a short time due to winds. […]
