BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Serbia declaring a day of mourning after a clash in Kosovo with gunmen left one police officer dead sends the wrong message to the region, the prime minister of neighboring Albania said Tuesday. Serbia on Tuesday decided to declare Wednesday a national day of mourning after the clash in northern Kosovo […]
PARIS (AA) – France will look into how its embassy in Niger is operating once Ambassador Sylvain Itte returns, a French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said Tuesday. Responding to Anadolu’s question during a weekly news conference, Anne-Claire Legendre said during the 78th UN General Assembly, French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna...
GENEVA (AA) – No one has a say in what women should wear, a UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) spokeswoman said on Tuesday, weighing in on France’s recent ban on headscarves for athletes in next year’s Olympic games. “In general, the Human Rights Office says that no one should impose on a woman […]
Citing previous threats and attacks, mosque spokesman blames damaging blaze on arson STOCKHOLM (AA) – A fire caused heavy damage to a mosque in southeastern Sweden, according to local media. The fire in the Arby section of the city of Eskilstuna was caused by arson, Anas Deneche, the mosque’s communication director, told public bro...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Kosovo police on Monday seized a huge quantity of heavy weapons and ammunition from a village in the country’s north, which had seen clashes between law enforcement and armed ethnic Serbs since Sunday. The police later displayed heavy weapons, vehicles, and ammunition seized during the day-long clashes with the armed Se...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Police in Montenegro arrested a former Serbian soldier Monday who had been sought by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) through the Interpol on the grounds that he committed war crimes during the Kosovo conflict. Law enforcement officials said the 61-year-old man was apprehended af...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan on Monday condemned “in the strongest terms” the latest acts involving the desecration of the holy Quran that took place in the Netherlands in front of some embassies of Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member countries, including its own. Calling the latest incidents “senseles...
PARIS (AA) – French athletes will not be allowed to wear headscarf in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, the country’s sports minister has said. Appearing at a show on France 3 TV on Sunday, Amelie Oudea-Castera expressed support for “strict secularism” and said that no member of the French delegation would be allowed to […]...
LONDON (AA) – France’s highest court has again ruled that the government ban on the abaya (a long, loose outer garment worn by Muslim women) is legal. The Council of State said it had rejected an appeal by three organizations against the government ban announced last month on the abaya. Last week, the Sud Education […]
Paris, France – AFP President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday announced that France would withdraw its ambassador from Niger, followed by the French military contingent in the coming months, a move welcomed by Niger’s military leaders as a “step towards sovereignty”. Macron’s announcement comes two months after a coup i...
