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...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Joe Biden may become the first sitting US president to visit atomic bomb-hit Nagasaki in Japan early next year. Tokyo and Washington are “considering a visit by US President Joe Biden to Nagasaki in May 2023 when he travels to Japan for a Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima,” Kyodo News reported. […]
BERLIN (AA) – A German court has found a 97-year-old woman guilty of complicity in killings of more than 10,000 people at a Nazi camp. Irmgard Furchner, known as the “secretary of evil,” was given a two-year suspended sentence by the court in the northern town of Itzehoe. Furchner was 18 years old when she […]
ANKARA/LONDON (AA) – Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte has apologized on behalf of the government for the Netherlands’ past involvement in slavery. “We can recognize slavery in the clearest terms as a crime against humanity,” Rutte said during a press conference in The Hague. He expressed regret that for centuries “the Du...
