BIRMINGHAM, England (AA): Buckingham Palace has refused to return the body of a teenage Ethiopian prince who had been forcibly brought to Britain and eventually buried at Windsor Castle 144 years ago. A descendant of Prince Alemayehu – the boy was an orphan. The British government claims that he was “adored and supported financially̶...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA): Palestinians on Monday commemorated the 75th anniversary of the Nakba or Catastrophe, which is marked on May 15 to remember the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homes and lands in 1948 after the founding of Israel. Thousands of flag-waving Palestinians participated in a mass rally in the W...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has rejected a call to apologize and offer reparatory justice for victims of British slave trade and imperialism. In her question to the prime minister during a session at the House of Commons on Tuesday, the opposition Labour Party’s MP Bell Riberio-Addy said the premie...
ISTANBUL (AA) — Türkiye on Wednesday criticized the inauguration of the Nemesis Monument in the Armenian capital Yerevan which honors perpetrators of assassinations against Ottoman and Azerbaijani officials in the early 1920s. “We strongly condemn the opening of the ‘Nemesis Monument’ in Yerevan, which is dedicated to the per...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa has said that his country should do more than just apologize for its role in the transatlantic slave trade. “Apologizing is sometimes the easiest thing to do: you apologize, turn your back, and the job’s done,” he said in parliament on Tuesday, marking th...
ANKARA (AA) – The Australian opposition was under fire for opposing Indigenous Voice to Parliament as Indigenous leaders accused opposition leader Peter Dutton of committing a “Judas betrayal” of the Voice. Noel Pearson, one of the most prominent Indigenous leaders in Australia, said Dutton has rejected the Voice to Parliament for ...
ANKARA (AA) – Australia’s main opposition party has announced its opposition to the establishment of a consultative body, an Indigenous Voice to Parliament, through a referendum. Speaking to reporters in Canberra, Peter Dutton, the leader of the center-right Liberal Party of Australia, accused Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of dividing the co...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) — Residents in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital Sarajevo marked on April 5 the 31st anniversary of the city’s nearly four-year siege during the brutal Bosnia War. Dozens paid their respects and left flowers on the Vrbanja Bridge River, where Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sucic, the first victims of the Bosnian War...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina has identified another six victims from the genocide in the 1990s, according to an advocacy organizatiion. The Institute for Missing Persons said the victims had been missing since 1992 and their remains were found in different mass graves across the country in 2021. The Bosnian War was spar...
LONDON (AA) – The British monarchy should apologize for its connections to the transatlantic slave trade if it “truly cared about beginning to rectify its role,” says an anti-monarchy campaigning organization. The transatlantic slave trade, which is viewed as one of the darkest chapters in history, lasted for more than 400 ye...
