BRUSSELS (AA): EU lawmakers have urged Greece and the European Commission to launch an international and independent probe into last month’s deadly migrant shipwreck off the coast of Greece. The European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs held a debate dedicated to the tragedy believed to have claimed hun...
ROME (AA) – A European investigation has led to the arrest of 15 people accused of smuggling people from Syria to EU countries. According to the investigation, the network used an unusually long and expensive route to smuggle migrants into Europe. From Syria, the migrants were headed either to Sudan, the United Arab Emirates or […...
LONDON (AA) – The shooting of a 17-year-old by police in a Paris suburb and subsequent protests raised concerns about institutional racism in France, experts say. The teenager, Nahel, was of Algerian and Moroccan descent. Salman Sayyid, a professor at the University of Leeds, said the shooting was a sign of institutional Islamophobia and racis...
GENEVA (AA): Germany has arrested seven people in North Rhine-Westphalia state, all belonging to Central Asian countries. The arrests were made on suspicion of channeling funds to a “terrorist group” and establishing a local militant network to carry out attacks. The seven men, five from Tajikistan and one each from Kyrgyzstan and ...
ANKARA (AA): French police have arrested nearly 4,000 people during the nationwide protests over the killing of a 17-year-old Muslim of Algerian origin, the country’s interior minister has said. Speaking at a Senate hearing, Gerald Darmanin said the average age of the protesters arrested was 17. Less than 10% of the arrested people were foreig...
ISTANBUL / BRUSSELS (AA): The fifth meeting of a permanent joint mechanism between Türkiye, Finland, and Sweden on latter’s NATO bid began in Brussels on Thursday. The meeting is hosted by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and attended by delegations from Türkiye, Finland, and Sweden. The Turkish delegation includes Foreign Ministe...
bLONDON (AA): Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) should be directly named in an inquiry relating to alleged unlawful killings in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013, a lawyer representing victims’ families said Wednesday. Richard Hermer’s remarks came as the Independent Inquiry Relating to Afghanistan held a hearing at the Royal Courts of...
LONDON (AA): Last week’s fatal police shooting of a 17-year-old Muslim of North African descent in a Paris suburb should not be seen as an individual, isolated case, says a British social theorist and expert on colonialism. Salman Sayyid, professor of social theory and decolonial thought at the University of Leeds, says it lays bare […]...
ANKARA (AA): Several Arab countries have welcomed the elevation of diplomatic relations between Türkiye and Egypt for the first time in a decade. Ankara and Cairo have upgraded their diplomatic relations to the ambassadorial level. Türkiye nominated Salih Mutlu Sen as its new ambassador to Cairo, while Egypt named Amr El Hamamy as ambassador t...
MOSCOW (AA): Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has accused France of being one of the countries which continue their neocolonial policies. Speaking at a meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in Baku, Aliyev urged French President Emmanuel Macron to apologize to the countries affected by French colonialism. “Apologies to the millions of people w...
