MOSCOW (AA) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that US President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to “work very hard” to settle the conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine deserves attention, but Moscow will wait for concrete proposals. “We will wait for their proposals. When we are asked about this, we always emphasize...
Switzerland’s controversial “burqa ban” will come into effect on January 1. The clothing covers a woman completely, including part of her face, and is worn by some Muslim women. This ban was approved in a 2021 referendum, and prohibits face coverings in public. It was spearheaded by the Swiss People’s Party, and pass...
NICE, France (AA) – A student activist who was detained for 46 days in Nice prison in France for her social media post raising voice for Palestine, called the detention was a “political procedure.” Amira Zaiter, a nursing student, was arrested on September 16 at her home due to her posts on X related to […]
LONDON (AA) – Britain has condemned the recent statement by Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich proposing annexation of the occupied West Bank. “I condemn (Israeli Finance) Minister (Bezalel) Smotrich’s comments proposing annexation of land in the West Bank,” Hamish Falconer, the UK’s minister for the Middle East ...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) — UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has told the parliament that Israel is not committing a genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. During the Prime Minister’s Questions at the House of Commons, Independent lawmaker Ayoub Khan raised comments from Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who recently claimed that the term genoci...
ANKARA (AA) – France has condemned Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s call to annex the occupied West Bank. “France condemns the recent remarks of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in favor of the annexation of the West Bank by Israel,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It recalled that those re...
ROME (AA) – Italy’s President Sergio Mattarella has responded sharply to Elon Musk’s controversial comments on Italian judges. Musk, set to play a major role in the new US administration led by Donald Trump, harshly criticized a Rome court for having blocked the detention of a second batch of migrants in an Albanian detention center. [&h...
AMSTERDAM (AA) – Israeli fan groups were responsible for the violence surrounding the Ajax-Maccabi Tel Aviv UEFA Europa League match in Amsterdam last week, said a senior member of an anti-Zionist Jewish group. In an interview with Anadolu, Anna Joseph, Leadership Council member of Erev Rav, a Jewish collective in the Netherlands, clarified th...
BERLIN (AA) – German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has criticized Israel for not allowing sufficient humanitarian aid into Gaza. “Never in the last 12 months has so little aid come to the Gaza Strip as now. A large proportion of the more than 2 million people suffer from acute malnutrition and live in unimaginable conditions,” [&hel...
ISTANBUL (AA) – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has condemned the recent Israeli airstrike on Jabalia, northern Gaza, which resulted in scores of casualties, as calls for international intervention to halt Israel’s genocidal attack on Palestinians intensify. On Sunday, Israeli airstrikes on Jabalia, Gaza’s largest refugee camp, kil...
