LONDON (AA) – Four UK nationals who had been detained in Afghanistan on allegations of breaking the laws have been released. “We welcome and appreciate the release by the current administration of Afghanistan of four British nationals who were detained on allegations of breaking the laws of Afghanistan,” a Foreign Office spok...
LONDON (AA) – The European Union’s assistance to Palestine will continue without suspension, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Monday. The announcement came in response to concerns that any suspension of payments would adversely affect the Palestinian population and potentially encourage terrorist activities in the region. ̶...
LONDON (AA) – Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters gathered in front of the Israeli Embassy in London on Monday, triggering a tense standoff between demonstrators and law enforcement officers. The rally was organized by Friends of Al-Aqsa, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Stop the War, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the Muslim A...
LONDON (AA) – Mayor Sadiq Khan expressed full support for Jewish Londoners after a glass door of a kosher restaurant was smashed in north London on Monday. “There is no tolerance for hate in our city,” Khan said on social media platform X. “I remain in close contact with the Met Police. Whoever did this […]
GENEVA (AA) – Austria has halted all financial assistance to Palestinian authorities totaling €19 million (about $20 million), Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg announced amid Israel’s siege on Gaza in response to resistance group Hamas’ Operation Al Aqsa Flood. “We will put all Austrian development coope...
Brussels, Belgium — AFP EU foreign ministers will be holding urgent talks on the situation in Israel and Gaza on Tuesday after Palestinian resistance fighters launched a surprise assault Operation Al Aqsa Flood, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Monday. “I am convening tomorrow an emergency meeting of EU F...
LONDON (AA) – Britain has issued a travel warning, advising its citizens to avoid all non-essential travel to Israel and the Palestinian territories. Amid escalating tension in the region, the Foreign Office has issued an update urging Britons to avoid non-essential travel to Israel and Palestine. In addition, it also advised against all trave...
BERLIN (AA) – Radical Islamophobic neo-Nazis threw stones at a mosque in the western city of Siegburg on Friday night, the latest in a string of attacks targeting Germany’s Muslim community. The assailants entered the mosque complex at around 11:10 p.m local time, smashed the windows, and left a flyer of the neo-Nazi group, ‘Letzte...
LONDON (AA) – The first British soldiers from a deployment of 200 arrived Friday to reinforce NATO’s Kosovo Force (KFOR). “The deployment is based on a request by NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe and comes after the violent attack on Kosovo Police on 24 September and increased tensions in the region,” said a Defense Min...
National Financial Prosecutor’s Office charges Nabil Ennasri and lobbyist Jean-Pierre Duthion with breach of trust, private corruption, money laundering, tax fraud ANKARA (AA) – Nabil Ennasri, a French Muslim political scientist, and Jean-Pierre Duthion, writer of Moroccan origin and lobbyist, were indicted on multiple charges 48 hours a...
