WASHINGTON (AA) – President Joe Biden claimed on Wednesday the US Navy had corrected a “historic wrong” by exonerating 258 Black sailors who were convicted of mutiny following a devastating explosion at Port Chicago 80 years ago. The sailors refused orders to resume loading munitions at the site after a powerful blast tore th...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina authorities have finalized arrangements to bid farewell to 14 more victims of the Srebrenica genocide on the 29th anniversary of the atrocity. Green coffins with the remains of the victims are ready in Visoko from where they will depart on July 9 for the village of Potocari to […]
A protest, held in front of the Greek Embassy in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, marked the 80th anniversary of the massacre committed by Greece against Cham Muslim Albanians. Protesters, carrying Cham symbols and Albanian flags, denounced the massacre and human rights violations that occurred during and after World War II. The Cham re...
Israel has dropped more than 70,000 tons of bombs on Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, surpassing the combined tonnage used in Dresden, Hamburg, and London during World War II. Historical records show the Germans dropped 18,300 tons of bombs on London, while the Allies dropped 8,500 tons on Hamburg and 3,900 tons on Dresden. Euro-Med […]
As the world commemorates Labor Day, a deeper, lesser-known chapter of labor history surfaces, overshadowed by the iconic 1886 protests in Chicago’s Haymarket Square. Over two decades earlier, on April 29, 1865, a significant but overlooked labor uprising occurred in Srinagar, capital of Indian held Jammu and Kashmir, marking perhaps the...
ANKARA (AA) – A French publisher has said many people are trying to muzzle voices critical of Israel in France and announced the re-release of the book “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine.” La Fabrique told the media that the book by renowned Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, which discusses the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people [&he...
GAZA, Palestine (AA) – Israeli warplanes targeted the surroundings of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza with airstrikes overnight, causing casualties among displaced people and medical teams, an official said early Friday. Ashraf Al-Qudra, the Health Ministry spokesman in Gaza, said similar strikes were conducted on hospitals in the central and ...
Located in the occupied West Bank, the site is the earliest example of permanent human settlement JERUSALEM, Palestine – Tell es-Sultan in the ancient Palestinian city of Jericho has been added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. It is the oldest known agrarian city in the world, dating back to 10,000 BC. Located in the […]
Tell al-Sultan in Jericho is prehistoric archeological site that houses oldest continuously inhabited settlement in world JERUSALEM, Palestine – The site of Tell al-Sultan in Jericho, Palestine, has been inscribed on the World Heritage List UNESCO. The site is a prehistoric archeological site that houses the oldest continuously inhabited...
Jericho, Palestinian Territories – AFP UNESCO inscribed the prehistoric site of Tell al-Sultan, near the Palestinian city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank, on its World Heritage List Sunday, in a move criticised by Israel. Tell al-Sultan, which predates Egypt’s pyramids, is an oval-shaped tell, or mound, in the Jordan Valley, a...
