KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Special prayers were held in Kashmir on Sunday for youths from the region who died or went missing in a boat wreck near Greece on Wednesday. The government announced Sunday as a “mourning day” as grief and sorrow gripped the region. At least 78 migrants drowned off southwestern Greece on Wednesday after [&he...
BRUSSELS (AA): The Turkish national defense minister has said that if Sweden fulfills its commitments it can become a NATO member like Finland. Meeting reporters in Brussels after the NATO defense ministers meeting, Yasar Guler expressed support for the military alliance’s “open door” policy. In the wake of Russia’s war...
PRISTINA (AA): Nine Kosovar journalists were attacked Friday in Leposavic in northern Kosovo by masked assailants. The slain journalists had been following the actions of Serbs around Town Hall. The Kosovo Journalists Association (AGK) shared footage of media workers being stoned and physically attacked by masked assailants. Prime Minister Alb...
ISTANBUL (AA): It has been more than a month since Shan Virk’s cousins Asadullah and Usama left their homes in Pakistan. The two were among the hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers on a boat that sank off the coast of Greece on Wednesday, the latest in an unending series of human tragedies on the […]
LEFKOSA, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (AA): The Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) has accused France and the US of violating the state’s founding agreements. The President of the Republic accused France of setting up a base in the Greek Cypriot administration of Southern Cyprus and the US of arming the south. Speaking to ...
LONDON (AA): Britain on Friday called on Serbia to release three Kosovar police officers, also urging the two countries to show “maximum restraint” amid recent tensions. “We call for the immediate release of the three Kosovo policemen detained on 14 June,” said a Foreign Office statement, referring to the police officers taken into custody on ...
MOSCOW (AA): Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked United Arab Emirates (UAE) President Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan for his help in resolving humanitarian issues arising from the conflict in Ukraine. “At the beginning of our conversation, I would like to thank you for your efforts to resolve humanitarian issues during the events in t...
ATHENS (AA): Amnesty International has demanded an urgent independent investigation into the drowning of at least 78 irregular migrants after their boat capsized off the coast of southwestern Greece earlier this week. “So many questions demand answers. Why was a search and rescue operation not launched much sooner? What caused the ship to caps...
ATHENS (AA): A French citizen tore down a copy of the Quran at a mosque in Greece’s Western Thrace, representatives of the region’s local Turkish minority said Thursday. Upon a complaint filed by locals who witnessed the provocative act in the Iskece (Xanthi) province’s Ilica Kaplicalar (Ano Thermai) village, the French citizen was held ...
Moscow, Russia (AFP): President Vladimir Putin and Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune pledged to deepen their two countries’ “strategic partnership” as the Kremlin seeks to pivot Russia towards Asia and Africa. Tebboune’s three-day state visit comes as Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine stretches into a second yea...
