ATHENS (AA) – A well-known investigative journalism center has claimed that the Netherlands has been using a racist algorithm to process visa applications since 2015. “Unknown to the public, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been using a profiling system to calculate the risk score of short-stay visa applicants applying to enter the Netherla...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijan’s state oil company SOCAR on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the supply of additional gas with transmission system operators of Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia. Ministers from the five countries signed the agreement at a ceremony in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, which was also att...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Crypto money exchange Thodex’s founder Faruk Fatih Ozer, who was extradited to Türkiye by the Albanian Ministry of Justice, was brought to Istanbul on Thursday. The plane carrying Ozer, whose extradition to Türkiye was decided by the Durres Court of Appeals in Albania, took off from the Albanian capital Tirana in th...
BERLIN (AA) – Interim results of a study on attitudes of police officers in Germany show that a significant number of police officers are prejudiced against Muslims. According to the interim results recently released, 18% of German police officers said they feel as if Germany is being “overrun” by foreigners. A total of 13% agreed [&hell...
GENEVA (AA) – The Spanish church has asked for forgiveness from victims of sexual abuse, confessing its “great sin” which affects “one in five children in Europe,” according to local media. The apology came during the inaugural address of the Plenary Assembly of the Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE), which is bei...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Ukraine has claimed that the trial and sentencing of 10 military personnel in Iran over the 2020 downing of a Ukrainian airliner is a “sham.” “This week, Iran announced the verdicts in the criminal trials against the alleged perpetrators. The sham trials that took place in Tehran must not distract the world […]...
JERUSALEM (AA) – French Muslim Neil Dauxois was greeted by many Palestinians in Jerusalem after he walked 3,900 kilometers in 10 months to reach Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem. Dauxois, 26, a French Muslim of Algerian descent, set off on foot from France 10 months ago to reach Al-Aqsa Mosque during the holy month […]
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Parliament has approved visa liberalization with Kosovo, the EU institution announced in a statement. “Citizens of Kosovo will be allowed to travel to the EU, and EU citizens to go to Kosovo, without requesting a visa, for periods of up to 90 days in any 180-day period,” the statement explained. […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – Discrimination against Muslims in France stems from colonialism, according to a French political scientist. Francois Burgat, the research head at the French National Center for Scientific Research, described how the orientalist discourse in recent years in France impacted the way Arabs are perceived, leading to the discri...
GENEVA (AA) – A Muslim woman who was pressured to remove her headscarf during the application process to become a kindergarten teacher and ultimately did not get the training position has been awarded €2,000 ($2,196) in damages in Austria. This decision was confirmed by the Vienna Regional Court for Civil Matters in the second instance, ...
