LONDON (AA) – The UK has said that it will work with Albania to expedite the removal of Albanians entering the country illegally. Home Secretary Priti Patel and Albania’s Interior Affairs Minister Bledi Cuci agreed to “intensify joint work to tackle the problem of large numbers of Albanians taking the treacherous journey to the UK [&hell...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Amid stalled efforts to repatriate Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh to Myanmar, many people from the persecuted ethnic minority are seeking a way out and playing into the hands of human smugglers. Hundreds of Rohingya refugees take perilous journeys on boats through the Bay of Bengal to reach Malaysia, Thailand an...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The wife of a Palestinian detainee said Thursday that her husband’s “health condition is very dangerous, and he may lose his life at any moment” to the hunger strike that he has continued for 166 days. Dalal said Khalil Awawdeh’s detention amounts to a “decision to kill him” and expressed fears [&he...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian inmates in Israel started a sit-in against the prison authorities, a non-profit group said on Thursday. In a statement, the Palestinian Prisoners Society said all of the inmates left their cells and gathered in the prison yards. It added that the move is part of their “escalating program”...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Union on Wednesday called for the investigation of crimes committed against the Rohingya and urged for their safe return to Myanmar. In a joint statement marking five years since more than 750,000 minority Rohingya women, men, and children fled Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh, EU foreign policy chief Josep...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The United Nations special envoy for Myanmar, Noeleen Heyzer, on Tuesday visited the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh to assess the conditions of the persecuted people in the crammed settlement where they have been living for five years. “The visit aims to know how Rohingya are living in the camps and […]...
RAMALLAH (AA) – More than 100 days after Shireen Abu Akleh was murdered in Jenin, hundreds of Palestinians gathered in Ramallah to unveil a street named after the Palestinian veteran journalist. The street is on the way that Abu Akleh used to travel daily to get to work at the Al-Jazeera network office in Ramallah […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has called for the release of all Palestinian detainees from Israeli jails. “We must continue our demand for addressing the Palestinian refugee issue and the release of all the brave detainees,” Abbas said at an inauguration ceremony for two charitable projects in the W...
ANKARA (AA) – Nine EU countries on Friday expressed their concern over Thursday’s Israeli raids on the Palestinian NGOs. In a joint statement, foreign ministries of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden said: “A free and strong civil society is indispensable for promoting democratic values a...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – The UN high commissioner for human rights expressed deep concern Wednesday over allegations of extrajudicial killings, torture in police custody and enforced disappearances in Bangladesh. Michelle Bachelet, the first UN rights chief to visit Bangladesh, told journalists at a press conference in the capital Dhaka,...
