PARIS (AA) – Thousands of people took to the streets of Paris on Sunday on the occasion of International Migrants Day to protest against a new immigration draft law. After gathering at the Porte de la Chapelle metro station, they started walking towards the city center. The demonstrators held banners saying “France, illegal” and &#...
IZMIR, Türkiye (AA) – A prominent politician in Sweden is pushing for the passage of a bill that would ban headscarves in the Swedish police force. The proposed law may also be extended to all public employees, Richard Jomshof, the chairman of parliament’s Justice Committee, said Monday. He hopes that the coalition of four right-wing [&h...
LAHORE, Pakistan (AA) – Pakistan has rejected the US State Department’s listing of the South Asian country as a state of “particular concern” for religious freedoms, saying that the claim is “detached from realities on the ground.” Foreign Office spokesperson Mumtaz Zahra Baloch expressed her disappointment with the issue, calling it a “...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): Several hundred journalists, civil society members and political party representatives demonstrated Friday in Senegal’s capital to demand the release of a journalist and government critic detained earlier this month. Journalist union representatives marched along a boulevard near the Dakar city centre, chanting R...
Paris, France (AFP): Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has dismissed a pledge from US leader Joe Biden to “free Iran” as the country faces a new upsurge in protests seven weeks after the death of Mahsa Amini who had been arrested by the police for not fulfilling the requirements of the conservative dress code for women. Campaigning [...
U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday called for a moratorium on forced returns of refugees and migrants to Burma. His comments follow news that Malaysia deported two Burmese nationals who sought protection through the U.N. refugee agency on Oct. 6. More than 100 other nationals from Burma, some of whom had serious protection [&hel...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – Moulana Muhammad Abbas Ansari, a religious leader and former chairman of Hurriyat Conference, an alliance of Kashmiri parties, passed away on Tuesday. The 86-year-old leader passed away at his residence in Srinagar. He had been ill for several years and was hospitalized for a few days recently. Hurriyat Confe...
TORONTO (AA) – Fourteen newly-elected lawmakers in the Canadian province of Quebec have rejected the constitutionally required oath of allegiance to the king of Great Britain, according to the Montreal Gazette. The lawmakers removed their allegiance to King Charles III on Friday in the text of the oath that is in the Canadian Constitutio...
PARIS (AA) – Tears of the Seine, an animated short film, has received attention in France and globally. The film has won a bronze medal at the Student Oscars in Los Angeles. It sheds light on the bloody police crackdown on the demonstration by Algerians in Paris on Oct. 17, 1961, in which hundreds of […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – A Palestinian source has denied reports about an agreement with Egypt and Israel to extract gas off the Gaza Strip. “These reports published by Israeli media are inaccurate,” the source told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said current talks on extracting gas off Gaza [&h...
