BRUSSELS (AA) – EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has lauded Türkiye and the UN for securing an extension to the Black Sea grain deal. The agreement “has been prolonged and congratulations to the UN and Türkiye for this diplomatic effort,” Borrell told reporters before a meeting of EU foreign ministers. “Let’s hope that this [&hellip...
GENEVA (AA) – The arrest warrant against Russian President Vladimir Putin is valid for life, according to International Criminal Court’s (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan. “There is no statute of limitations for war crimes,” Khan told BBC Radio 4, adding that the ICC’s arrest warrant remains valid even after Russi...
BAGHDAD (AA) – Twenty years after the US invasion of Iraq, the country is still trying to get back on its feet. On March 20, 2003, an international coalition led by the US launched a military operation to overthrow Saddam Hussein’s regime on the pretext of dismantling Iraq’s ‘weapons of mass destruction’, which we...
ANKARA (AA) – Ankara and Cairo have agreed to maximize the diplomatic relations that were stalled after the 2013 military coup in Egypt, according to Türkiye’s foreign minister. “We agreed to maximize our diplomatic relations. We have evaluated what steps we will take in the next process. I invited him (Egyptian Foreign Minis...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian movement Hamas held talks on Sunday with Lebanese group Hezbollah on developments in the occupied territories, the movement said in a statement. A Hamas delegation led by political deputy chief Saleh al-Arouri met with Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon. “Both sides reviewed th...
Ohrid, Republic of North Macedonia (AFP): Kosovo and Serbia stopped short of signing a potentially landmark deal late Saturday night after holding a marathon round of talks, even as the EU hailed progress toward reaching a long-sought agreement between the arch-foes. The latest round of high-stakes negotiations followed months of EU-mediated s...
Astana, Kazakhstan (AFP): Kazakhstan held snap parliamentary elections Sunday as the leader of the Central Asian country pushes political reforms that critics say are designed to consolidate power one year after deadly protests. Polling stations opened at 7:00 am (0100 GMT), according to AFP reporters in the capital Astana and Almaty, Kazakhst...
Lagos, Nigeria (AFP): Nigerians were voting in local elections Saturday, just weeks after the ruling party won a presidential poll that the two main opposition parties alleged was marred by fraud. Africa’s most populous nation is electing hundreds of state assembly lawmakers and over two dozens governors, with a particularly competitive ...
ANKARA (AA) – The US has denied providing helicopter piloting training to SDF partners in Syria after a helicopter carrying PKK members crashed in northern Iraq. Following the crash of a helicopter carrying PKK members in northern Iraq, the questions of how the helicopter ended up in the hands of the PKK and the source […]
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Ten million children living in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, twice as many as in 2020 due to intensifying conflicts, UNICEF warned Friday. “Armed conflict is increasingly affecting children, who are victims of intensified military clashes or targeted by non-state...
