BRUSSELS (AA): The EU on Thursday pledged over €2 billion ($2.1 billion) in support for Syrian refugees and their host communities for 2023 and 2024. Speaking at the 7th Brussels Conference on Supporting the future of Syria and the region, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borell called on the international community to keep offering aid […...
NARTA, Albania (AFP): Flamingos and Dalmatian pelicans laze in the azure waters of a shallow lagoon near Albania’s Adriatic coast. However, this avian paradise’s days may be numbered, ecologists warn, with a new airport being built close by to cash in on the Balkan nation’s tourism boom. Its construction near Vlora has trigge...
ANKARA (AA): Sweden’s top NATO negotiator on Wednesday reiterated the country’s commitment to root outing the “PKK terrorist group.” Addressing a news conference in the Turkish capital Ankara, Oscar Stenstrom said: “Sweden is no safe haven for terrorism. We are no safe haven for PKK. We have stepped up our coopera...
LONDON (AA): There is no case that a significant number of Albanian nationals are at risk in their country and need to claim asylum in the UK, this was stated in a report recently released by the Home Affairs Committee. The cross-party committee of members of parliament, which is responsible for scrutinizing the work of […]
ANKARA (AA): The fourth meeting on a permanent joint mechanism between Türkiye, Finland and Sweden will be held in Ankara on Wednesday, Türkiye’s Communications Directorate said on Monday. Finland and Sweden applied for NATO membership soon after Russia launched war in Ukraine in February 2022. Although Türkiye approved Finland’s m...
LONDON (AA): The year 2023 could be “really important” for global climate action, but much depends on what happens at the COP28 meeting later this year, according to a climate change specialist. The previous round of the UN’s high-stakes climate talks, COP27, in Egypt’s resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh last November, drew both praise and [&helli...
LONDON (AA): The British government’s controversial steps to tackle immigration show how British politicians use the immigration issue to win elections, according to interdisciplinary researchers. The UK government’s two latest attempts to stop small boat crossings via the English Channel – Illegal Migration Bill and the Rwanda Pla...
COLOGNE, Germany (AA): A Muslim student was insulted by a university professor in Germany because she was wearing a headscarf, her lawyer said on Monday. The incident occurred during an economics class at the campus of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg university in northwestern Germany. The professor used slurs and even compared the Muslim woman’s headscar...
BIRMINGHAM (AA): The issue of illegal migrant crossings on the English Channel is “a top priority” for the UK government, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said on Monday. His remarks came at the EU-UK Forum, a virtual annual conference focused on the 2021 EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. Cleverly said the war in Ukraine has brought [&hel...
ATHENS (AA): A right-wing coalition party in the Italian government led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has prepared a draft law intended to ban Muslim prayer spaces outside of mosques. The bill proposed by the Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, which is currently being debated in the parliament’s environment committee, aims to prohibit the...
