KIGALI, Rwanda – Eritrea has said that the deal between Rwanda and Britain to resettle asylum seekers attempting to enter the UK was ‘disgraceful.’ Last week, Rwanda and the UK inked a major deal under which Britain will send asylum seekers to the East African country. The agreement was signed by UK Home Secretary Priti [&hel...
KIRKLARELI, Turkiye – At least 84 irregular migrants have claimed that they were pushed back to Turkiye half-naked by Bulgarian border units. Gendarmerie teams in Turkiye’s northwestern Kirklareli province noticed that there were semi-naked irregular migrants in the forest area during their patrol in Kofcaz district near the Bulgar...
KYIV, Ukraine – Some 20,600 Russian soldiers have been killed since the war began in Ukraine on February 24, the Ukrainian military has said. Ukrainian forces have destroyed 167 Russian aircraft, 147 helicopters, 155 unmanned aerial vehicles, 790 tanks, 2,041 armored vehicles and 381 artillery systems, according to the Ukrainian General ...
BRUSSELS (AA) – European Council chief Charles Michel held discussions on Monday with Jordan’s King Abdullah II about the deteriorating security situation in the occupied West Bank. The two spoke about “the importance of preserving (the) status quo of holy sites in Jerusalem,” Michel said on Twitter. The leaders agreed that the “deterio...
On Wednesday, ABN Amro, the third-largest Dutch bank, issued an apology for its predecessors’ role in the Atlantic slave trade during the 18th and 19th centuries. The bank worked with the International Institute of Social History to investigate its two predecessors, Hope & Co. and Mees & Zoonen. Researchers found Hope & Co.’s prof...
Footage showing French police assaulting two Muslim women wearing Hijab has triggered anger on social media. In the April 14 video, French police use disproportionate force against two Muslim in headscarves in the city of Asnieres-sur-Seine. Police can be seen beating one of the women and trying to push the other to the ground. As […]
Iraq’s Foreign Ministry summoned Sweden’s charge d’affaires over an incident involving the burning of a copy of the Quran by far-right extremists last week. On Thursday, Rasmus Paludan, the Danish leader of the Stram Kurs Party, burned a copy of the holy book in the city of Linkoping, according to media reports. Swedish Prime Minis...
Footage of police’s harsh treatment of a 13-year-old Turkish boy in the German city of Duisburg DOOS BURG has sparked social media outrage. The boy was allegedly tearing up an election poster. In the April 12 footage, two police officers can be seen handcuffing Emirhan Altintas while one of the officers was pressing the boy’s […]
PARIS – The Islamic headscarf has emerged as a major polarizing issue during the presidential election for allegedly being antithetical to France’s fundamental value of secularism. The veil, or headscarf, has always been a highly charged issue for the French political class and a compulsive phobia for the French right. It has been called...
MOSCOW – Russia has announced retaliatory sanctions on 13 current and former UK officials, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Defense Secretary Ben Wallace. Moscow banned several other Cabinet members and politicians from entering Russia over “unprecedented hostile action by the British Government, in...
