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...
Tripoli, Libya (AFP): The blast of a cannon booms across Tripoli, but it doesn’t signal another round of fighting in the Libyan capital — rather, the revival of a long-lost Ramadan tradition. Officers in berets rolled out a red carpet on the iconic Martyrs’ Square on March 23 for the 600-year-old weapon, setting off a [&helli...
WASHINGTON (AA) – A hunk of wood and metal bar sit in the center of a near pitch dark room in the basement of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, illuminated by the space’s few rays of light. On their face, they appear to be driftwood and scraps — items of little […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina on Friday marked the seventh anniversary of the verdict against ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, who was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity committed against Bosniak Muslims during the 1990s war in Bosnia. Considered to have spearheaded the most severe war crimes co...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Twenty years after the US invasion of Iraq, the country is still trying to get back on its feet. On March 20, 2003, an international coalition led by the US launched a military operation to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime on the pretext of dismantling Iraq’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’, which we...
HANAU, Germany (AA) – German authorities are still underestimating the far-right threat despite dozens of deadly attacks by right-wing terrorists in recent years, says Cetin Gultekin, who lost his brother in the Hanau terror attack. “There have been many racist attacks and nothing has changed. If Germany had learned lessons from at...
PARIS (AA) – France on Thursday shot back at Russia for its accusations of “colonial” treatment of Africa. Responding to an Anadolu question at a news conference, French Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Anne-Claire Legendre denounced what she termed Russia’s “neocolonial political involvement” in Africa. Legendre’s remarks were in response to Russ...
Meerut, India (AFP): Hindu fundamentalist Ashok Sharma has devoted his life to championing the deeds of an Indian “patriot”: not revered independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, but the man who shot him dead. Sharma is the custodian of a temple dedicated to Nathuram Godse, who on January 30, 1948, gunned down a figure cel1ebrated the worl...
Thiès, Senegal (AFP): “They made us join up to wage war,” said Ndiogou Dieye, 103, casting his memory back more than eight decades to when he and other young Senegalese donned uniforms to fight for distant France. “We didn’t know where we were going.” The wizened old soldier is one of the last survivors of [&helli...
