MOSCOW – In a retaliatory move, Russia has declared five Portuguese diplomats persona non grata. The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it summoned Portuguese Ambassador in Moscow Madalena Fischer and expressed to her “a decisive protest” over “the provocative decision” to declare 10 Russian diplomats per...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US and Turkiye are “committed to working closely together to face current geopolitical challenges,” the nations said Wednesday. A joint statement issued after a meeting between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said the top diplomats “intend to deepen b...
MOSCOW – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that Germany lost its independence since the new government came to power. Lavrov said French President Emmanuel Macron is now the last European leader who speaks about the political autonomy of the EU. “Since the current government came to power, Germany has lost the last si...
PARIS – Grenoble city’s decision to allow women to wear the ‘burkini’ in municipal swimming pools has set off a heated controversy in France, with the government deeming the authorization “provocative.” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has objected to the authorization of ‘burkinis’ as “unacceptable communi...
MOSCOW – In a tit-for-tat move over the war in Ukraine, Russia has declared 34 French diplomats persona non grata, effectively ordering their expulsion. On its official website, the Foreign Ministry said the step was taken in response to the expulsion of 41 Russian diplomats from France. A notice was handed to French Ambassador Pierre [&hellip...
ANKARA – At least 229 children have been killed and 424 others injured so far in the war with Russia, Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Office has said. Children in the eastern Donetsk, north-central Kyiv, and northeastern Kharkiv regions have been the most affected in Ukraine, the office said in a statement. Russia’s daily bombin...
MOSCOW – Russia has declared 27 Spanish diplomats persona non grata in response to the expulsion of 27 Russian diplomats from Spain in April. The Russian foreign ministry said it summoned Ambassador Marcos Gomez Martinez to lodge a “decisive protest” and handed him a note ordering the diplomats to leave the country. Martinez was told [&h...
Muslim parents are up in arms after an elementary school in the U.K. served their children pork instead of vegetarian sausages for lunch. A group of angry parents protested demanding the Ryders Green Primary School in West Bromwich explain the “mix up.” Muslims make up around 70% of students at the school, and many follow […]
PARIS (AA) – A Paris court on Wednesday indicted the French company Lafarge for their “complicity in crimes against humanity” in Syria, local media reported. According to French news outlet France24, the Court of Cassation – France’s highest court – had overturned in September 2021 a decision by a lower court to dismiss charges against [&helli...
MOSCOW (AA) – The Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Wednesday that 959 Ukrainian servicemen surrendered at the Azovstal steel plant in the besieged city of Mariupol over the past day. Speaking at a press briefing in Moscow, spokesman Igor Konashenkov said there were 80 wounded among them, including 51 soldiers who needed hospitalization. All...
