ANKARA (AA): Türkiye on Thursday called on Sweden to fulfill its commitments regarding the fight against terrorism. “A crystal clear message to our Swedish Friends! Fulfill your commitments arising from Trilateral Memorandum & take concrete steps in the fight against terrorism. The rest will follow,” foreign minister Mevlut Cav...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA): A UN court has extended the sentences of two allies of the late Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic for their involvement in crimes against humanity during the Balkan wars. The Appeals Chamber of the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals rejected on Wednesday the appeals by Jovica Stanisic and Frank...
JERUSALEM (AA): A former member of Israel’s Mossad intelligence service was killed in a boat accident in a lake in Italy this weekend, according to the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on Wednesday. The former agent, who was identified as Erez Shimoni, 54, was on the houseboat, with 22 other people, on a northern Italian lake […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA): Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama has said that the strength of the Serbian army on the border with Kosovo is “zero” and cannot do anything about the developments in Kosovo. Rama’s remarks came at the Bratislava Global Security Forum (GLOBSEC) in the capital of Slovakia, amid rising tensions in northern ...
Bratislava, Slovakia (AFP): French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday said that Kosovo officials bore “responsibility” following clashes this week over local election results that left more than 80 people injured. “It is very clear that Kosovar authorities bear responsibility for the current situation and there is non-com...
BRUSSELS (AA): Despite the pledges made after the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan in 2021, the EU countries resettled only 271 Afghan nationals last year, amounting to 0.1% of those in need, a report has revealed. “EU states resettled just 271 Afghan refugees in 2022,” the Brussels-based human rights watchdog International Rescue Committee (IR...
BERLIN (AA): Germany asked Russia on Wednesday to close four of its consulates in the country as tensions continue to mount between the two countries. At a news conference in Berlin, Foreign Ministry spokesman Christofer Burger accused Russia of escalating tensions with its decision to limit the maximum number of staff at German diplomatic mis...
Moscow, Russia (AFP): Russia on Wednesday claimed that it had destroyed the last major warship of the Ukrainian naval forces, which it said was stationed in the southern port of Odesa. “On May 29, a high-precision strike by the Russian Air Force on a ship anchorage site in the port of Odesa destroyed the last […]
Oslo, Norway (AFP): NATO’s chief has voiced guarded optimism on welcoming Sweden to the alliance as the United States pressed holdout Turkey to drop its objections, two days after President Tayyip Recep Erdogan won re-election. Sweden and Finland last year reversed decades of hesitation and formally applied to join NATO after Russia inva...
ROME (AA): Italian police have detained a minor accused of being part of a transnational group of youths supporting the ISIS group. The police said they found evidence that he was ready to organize an arson attack in the area of Bergamo in northern Italy, where he lives. They said the boy who has Italian […]
