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...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The Belgian government tried to send nearly expired medicines from its strategic stockpile to Ukraine as humanitarian aid, local media reported on Wednesday. According to an investigation by the Het Laatste Nieuws (HLN) newspaper, the €3.4 million ($3.6 million) worth of humanitarian aid that the Belgian federal governmen...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia has decided to withdraw from the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS), a political forum for regional cooperation with 11 member states including Germany, Finland, and Sweden. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said the organization has been turning into “an anti-Russian tool,” and some discriminator...
PARIS – The decision by another French city to allow women to wear head-to-toe swimwear at public pools – dubbed ‘burkinis’ – has once again reignited the contentious debate over religious clothing in France. Grenoble in southeastern France became the second city in the country to allow the wearing of burkinis – worn by some ...
WASHINGTON – US President Joe Biden will host Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson and Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto regarding their bid to join NATO, according to the White House. During the meeting, “the leaders will discuss Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO applications and European security, as well as strengthening ...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran on Tuesday confirmed the arrest of two French nationals for stoking unrest by participating in teacher protests. Iran’s state broadcaster showed a film about the duo’s arrest by intelligence sleuths and their activities in Iran, calling them “spies.” The pair were identified as Cecile Kohler, 37...
Fnideq, Morocco – AFP Morocco and Spain have reopened the land borders between the north African country and the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla, two years after they were shut due to Covid restrictions and a major diplomatic row. The enclaves on the Mediterranean coast in northern Morocco have the European Union’s only land ...
