PARIS (AA) – President Emmanuel Macron has announced that France and Saudi Arabia will co-chair a conference in June in connection with efforts to establish a Palestinian state. Speaking to reporters in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh, Macron said that he and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, they decided to co-host a conference on c...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday that he had nominated Charles Kushner, a prominent New Jersey businessman, to serve as ambassador to France. Kushner is the father of Jared Kushner, who is a son-in-law of Trump. “I am pleased to nominate Charles Kushner, of New Jersey, to serve as the US Ambassador to...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The French Council of State upheld a decision to cancel a lecture at a university in Paris by Rima Hassan, a Palestinian-origin member of the European Parliament from the far-left Unyielding France (LFI) party. A statement by the Council said it considered an appeal against a lower court’s decision to overturn the [...
KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – The French Foreign Ministry said Friday it had “taken note” of Chad’s decision to end an agreement with Paris to strengthen the cooperation in security and defense between the two nations. Chad, which currently hosts roughly 1,000 French soldiers, announced it terminated the agreement with France on Thur...
LONDON (AA) – The UK, France, and Germany have urged Israel to renew vital banking ties with Palestinian financial institutions for at least 12 months, warning that failure to do so could lead to the collapse of the Palestinian economy and destabilize the region. Israel’s indemnification of its banks for cross-border transactions with Pa...
JERUSALEM (AA) – A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah brokered with US and French diplomatic efforts came into effect Wednesday at 4 a.m. local time (0200GMT). Under the agreement, the Lebanese Armed Forces will be deployed in southern Lebanon within 60 days, during which time Israel will gradually withd...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Eleven nongovernmental organizations have urged France to enforce an International Criminal Court’s (ICC) arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense chief Yoav Gallant. The NGOs, including the Ligue de Droit de l’homme (LDH) and the French Palestinian Solidarity Associatio...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The UK, France, Germany and the US welcomed Saturday the adoption of an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of Governors resolution on Iran’s Safeguards Agreements. “The resolution responds to Iran’s continued failure to provide the IAEA the information and cooperation needed to clarify long outsta...
NICE, France (AA) – A student activist who was detained for 46 days in Nice prison in France for her social media post raising voice for Palestine, called the detention was a “political procedure.” Amira Zaiter, a nursing student, was arrested on September 16 at her home due to her posts on X related to […]
ANKARA (AA) – France has condemned Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s call to annex the occupied West Bank. “France condemns the recent remarks of Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich in favor of the annexation of the West Bank by Israel,” the French Foreign Ministry said in a statement. It recalled that those re...
