VIENNA (AA) – A mosque in Austria was subjected to an Islamophobic and racist attack on Monday. The words “Go back home” were written on the walls of the Yesil Mosque in Lower Austria by an unidentified individual who entered the area without permission, according to mosque officials. Türkiye’s Ambassador to Austria, Ozan Cey...
ANKARA – At least 32 journalists have been killed in Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine, the Ukrainian culture and information policy minister has said. As Ukraine marks its annual Journalists Day, Oleksandr Tkachenko hailed all journalists working in the war-ravaged country as “heroes.” “Eternal memory to our fighters of information front. All j...
PARIS – The French finance minister has said that his country is engaged in talks with the Gulf countries to find an alternative to Russian oil supplies and reduce the country’s energy dependency on Moscow. “Discussions are already underway with the United Arab Emirates. We need to find an alternative to Russian oil,” Bruno Le […]...
WASHINGTON (AA) – NATO will address Türkiye’s concerns about Sweden and Finland’s membership bids, the alliance’s chief said Thursday. “When an ally, Turkey, rises concerns, then we have to do what we always do in NATO and that is to sit down, address those concerns and then find a united way forward,” Jens ...
PARIS (AA) – In the first initiative of its kind, the Catholic Church in France will begin the process of paying reparations to victims of sexual abuse in the church, offering financial compensation of up to €60,000 (about $64,000), an independent commission set up to investigate the criminal cases announced on Wednesday. Marie Derain de...
RIYADH (AA) – Qatar has reiterated its readiness to contribute to every international and regional effort to find a peaceful solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Its pledge came during a meeting Wednesday held by Qatar’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov in the ...
BRUSSELS – Belgian Muslims and Jews presented 127,000 signatures protesting a proposed ban on the slaughter of animals using their traditional religious rules, known respectively as halal and kosher. On the last day of about two weeks of debate over the proposed ban in the capital region, representatives of the Muslim and Jewish communities an...
Fnideq, Morocco – (AFP): Spain opened the borders of its North African enclaves Ceuta and Melilla to Moroccan workers on Tuesday, two years after their closure and following the resolution of a drawn-out diplomatic crisis. The European Union’s only borders on African soil had been shuttered in 2020 at the height of the coronavirus ...
BELGRADE, Serbia – Bosnia and Herzegovina marked White Ribbon Day in honor of thousands of innocent civilians killed in the western town of Prijedor in 1992. On May 31, 1992, the Serbian administration in Prijedor ordered the non-Serb population to wear white stripes on their arms when they left their houses- an order followed by […]
ANKARA – NATO “will chart the way ahead for the next decade” at its June summit in the Spanish capital Madrid, the alliance’s chief has said. “We will reset our deterrence and defense for a more dangerous world,” Jens Stoltenberg said at a ceremony in Spain marking the 40th anniversary of the country’s accession to […]
