NEW YORK, United States (MNTV) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he still intends to visit New York, dismissing mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s campaign promise to arrest him under an International Criminal Court warrant. Speaking virtually at the New York Times Dealbook forum, Netanyahu confirmed he will travel to the city. When a...
NEW YORK, United States (MNTV) – UN Women says women and girls with disabilities continue to face compounded discrimination that restricts their access to essential services, economic opportunities, leadership roles and public participation. Marking the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, the UN agency urged societies to respect th...
WASHINGTON, United States (MNTV) – US President Donald Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin appears open to ending the war in Ukraine, citing impressions from a recent meeting in Moscow attended by his envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. “Their impression was… he would like to see the war ended,” Trump told reporters, referring to [...
WASHINGTON, United States (MNTV) – U.S. President Donald Trump intensified his criticism of Somali immigrants, describing Somalia as “barely a country” and calling Somalis “garbage,” adding that he does not want them in the United States. Speaking at the conclusion of a Cabinet meeting, Trump dismissed concerns about political correctness, say...
WASHINGTON, United States (MNTV) – U.S. President Donald Trump said the second phase of his Gaza peace initiative will begin soon, insisting that “we have peace in the Middle East,” despite new Israeli strikes that Palestinian sources say breached the ongoing ceasefire with Hamas. Trump made the comments after Israeli attacks in southern Gaza ...
MOSCOW (MNTV) — As Russia mourned the death of Klavdiya Gadyuchkina, previously believed to be the country’s oldest resident, officials in Chechnya announced that the true senior-most citizen is 120-year-old Yakha Khashagova. The regional branch of the Social Fund said Khashagova, born in 1905 in the village of Alkhazurova in Urus-Martan distr...
YEREVAN, Armenia (MNTV) — Armenia’s government has released documents related to past negotiations on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, fulfilling a pledge made by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Nov. 8. The materials, published Tuesday in Armenian, Russian and English, outline international proposals aimed at resolving the decades-long dispute...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (MNTV) — Leyla Masimli, an Azerbaijani Ph.D. student who has spent years studying and working in South Korea, has been named an honorary citizen of Seoul for her contributions to cultural and academic cooperation between the two countries, AZTV reported. Masimli is among 17 recipients of the 2025 title, awarded to foreign nati...
BAKU, Azerbaijan (MNTV) — A pico-satellite built by Azerbaijani schoolchildren has been launched into orbit aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from California, officials announced Wednesday. The PocketQube satellite, named Azerbaijan’s Victory, is the nation’s first education-sector spacecraft. It will operate for roughly a year, transmitting tel...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A pregnant Bengali-speaking Muslim woman and her eight-year-old son — forcibly pushed into Bangladesh by Indian authorities earlier this year — will now be brought back to India after the Supreme Court intervened and demanded humanitarian action. The case exposed the growing targeting and profiling of Bengali-origin M...
