MADRID (AA) – Türkiye, Finland and Sweden signed a memorandum Tuesday on the Nordic countries’ bids for NATO membership following four-way talks in Madrid. Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto and Sweden’s Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson met to discuss the issu...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – The Qassam Bridges, the armed wing of Palestinian resistance group Hamas, has released a short video of an Israeli in its captivity. Hisham al-Sayede appeared in the video clip laying on a bed with an oxygen mask on his face and his Israeli ID card beside him. This is the […]
ANKARA (AA) – A Turkish soldier was killed in northern Iraq where the Turkish army launched Operation Claw-Lock to rid the area of terror elements, the National Defense Ministry has said. Abdullah Bayram was killed after PKK fighters opened fire in the operation zone, according to the ministry. The ministry expressed condolences to Bayra...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US will provide nearly $55 million in aid to those impacted by an earthquake last week that struck eastern Afghanistan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday. The humanitarian assistance will go through the US Agency for International Development, the top diplomat said in a statement and added that the new ...
ISTANBUL (AA): An Egyptian criminal court sentenced 10 convicts from the Muslim Brotherhood group to death Tuesday for carrying out attacks against police and facilities in the case known as the Helwan Brigades. The court was headed by Mohammed Shireen Fahmy and included a sentence in absentia for Yahya Moussa, a leader in the Muslim […...
ANKARA (AA) – Israel’s prime minister on Tuesday thanked Türkiye’s president for Turkish intelligence’s efforts to thwart attacks on Israelis in Türkiye. “I especially thank President (Recep Tayyip) Erdogan and his people for their cooperation in thwarting attacks on Israelis in Turkey,” Naftali Bennett wrote on Twitter. Benn...
MADRID (AA) – Four-way talks between Türkiye, NATO, Finland and Sweden ended Tuesday on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Madrid. Türkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, Finland’s President Sauli Niinisto and Sweden’s Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson discussed the Nordic coun...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Residents in remote areas of Bangladesh have started an intense struggle for potable water because of discriminatory budget allocation for those areas and an unrelenting destruction of the ecology — especially in hilly areas. Just 5.44% of the Annual Development Program was allocated for the Water, S...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – A coalition of five Tunisian parties has condemned attacks on their supporters during a protest against a planned constitutional referendum amid a deep political crisis in the North African country. Tunisian President Kais Saied plans to hold a national referendum on an amended version of the country’s constitution on Jul...
ANKARA (AA) – Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev met on Monday with Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha to discuss the bloc’s vision to promote Islamic solidarity and joint Islamic action. The meeting was held on the sidelines of the 11th session of the Islamic Conference of Tourism Ministers ...
