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...
ANKARA (AA) – Egypt on Monday received an ancient artefact known as the “Green Coffin” from the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences in the United States. A ceremony was held at the Foreign Ministry in Cairo to receive the artefact that was attended by Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry and Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Ahmed […]
ALGIERS, Algeria (AA) – The Algerian president has said “France must get rid of its colonizer complex,” according to local media. “The relations between the two countries need — in order to cool down — France to liberate itself from its colonizer complex and Algeria from its colonized complex,” Abdelma...
LONDON (AA) – Although nearly 60 years have passed, the trauma of the 1963 “Bloody Christmas” massacre is still fresh in the minds of Muslim Turkish Cypriots. Starting on December 21, following the Greek Cypriot coup of the Cyprus government, some 1% of the Turkish Cypriot population was killed and 25% displaced by Greek Cypr...
