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...
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...
