ANKARA (AA) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu discussed the implementation of the Black Sea grain deal with Ukrainian First Vice Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko in Brazil on Sunday. “We discussed our humanitarian aid and the Istanbul Grain Agreement,” Cavusoglu said on Twitter. The Turkish foreign minister was in Brazil to atte...
LONDON (AA) – Germany took the lead of NATO’s highest-readiness military force from France on Sunday. NATO’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) was formed in 2014 at the core of a strengthened NATO Response Force after Russia’s annexation of Crimea and crises in the Middle East, placing thousands of troops on standby and [...
LONDON (AA) – NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that the Western allies must be ready to provide long-term support to Ukraine. Stoltenberg told BBC that military support would ensure the survival of Ukraine as a sovereign country. Earlier, the General Staff of Ukraine said in a statement that Russian forces carried out air...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – At least 2 people died after a small plane crashed in northwestern Bosnia and Herzegovina on Saturday. In a statement, police said that the plane crashed near the airport in the city of Prijedor. An investigation into the accident has been launched. Local media reported that a flight instructor and his […]
AYDIN/IZMIR, Türkiye (AA) – Eleven people were killed and several injured Friday in two separate industrial accidents on the Aegean coast of Türkiye. Four people were killed in a crane accident at a construction site, according to the Governor of Izmir, Yavuz Selim Kosger. The crane was installed at a 32-storey construction site when it ...
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...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel’s ambassador in France resigned from her post in protest against the new coalition government in Tel Aviv, local media reported. In a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yael German declared that her conscience would not allow her to represent the six-time premier’s new administration. Sh...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Serbs in Kosovo on Thursday began to remove barricades set up amid recent tensions, after being assured by the US and the EU that there would be no arrests. The removal of barricades began in the town of Rudare, where at least 14 trucks, tankers and buses were blocking the main […]
ANKARA (AA) – The US has lost its balanced policy on issues related to Greece and Cyprus, the Turkish foreign minister has said. He deplored Washington’s weapons supplies to Athens as a “clear indication” of this. Türkiye has “clearly told the US that they are disrupting their balance (policy) on Greece and Cyprus...
MOSCOW (AA) – Kyiv’s initiative to deprive Moscow of UN Security Council permanent membership and to exclude it from the UN is built on a “completely perverted logic,” the Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman has said. Following this logic, a conclusion may be drawn that all decisions of the UN Security Council starting...