ANKARA (AA) – Palestine supporters in France are facing growing pressure amid rising government restrictions, according to the honorary president of the French Jewish Union for Peace (UJFP). In an interview with Anadolu, Richard Wagman expressed concern over the escalating police violence against demonstrators supporting Palestinians in his co...
LONDON (AA) – Former Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf has strongly condemned the UK government’s response to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, accusing it of “double standards and hypocrisy”. Speaking to the media, Yousaf stressed the decades of suffering endured by Palestinians, calling it a significant failure of t...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – East European Muslim republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina will hold its eighth local elections since 1992 on Sunday. A total of 143 mayors and 3,200 council members will be elected in the two entities in the country — the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBIH) and the Republika Srpska (RS) and […]
Sweden’s recently-appointed Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard was forced to flee parliament hall after tomatoes and onions were thrown at her during a debate about how Sweden should vote on a United Nations referendum about Israel and the West Bank. Stenergard fled when those in the stands suddenly started shouting and throwing th...
Former U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says a listening device was discovered in his bathroom in 2017. Johnson had been a foreign secretary at the time. He made the comments during an interview with The Telegraph. Johnson said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was behind the planted device. The Telegraph reports that Israel was als...
German police assaulted a fan of Scotland’s Celtic football club and pushed him to the ground for carrying a Palestinian flag. The incident happened during Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League game against Celtic at Borussia Dortmund’s home ground Signal Iduna Park. Three of five police officers at the site knelt on the football fan fo...
ATHENS (AA) – The EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has condemned the Israeli strike in Beirut that killed seven people as a violation of international humanitarian law. The “IDF targeted once again healthcare workers overnight, in central Beirut: 7 people including paramedics were killed,” he said on X. “Not only are civilians the v...
BERLIN (AA) – A protest in solidarity with Palestine set to take place on October 7 in the German city of Frankfurt has been banned by its mayor. In a statement, Mike Josef said the protest, planned for the anniversary of the genocidal war on Gaza, could potentially “incite the public.” The mayor said there […]
LONDON (AA) – The UK has reached an agreement with Mauritius to give sovereignty of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean to the East African nation and secure a strategically important UK-US military base, the Foreign Office announced Thursday. After years of negotiations, the UK agreed to hand over the Chagos Islands to Mauritius [&he...
LONDON (AA) – The EU on Thursday announced additional humanitarian aid worth €30 million ($33.1 million) for Lebanon, bringing the total to over €100 million for 2024. The aid will help those most in need in Lebanon which comes in addition to the €10 million already announced on Sept. 29, a European Commission statement said. […]...
