MOSCOW (AA) – Russia will be able to supply 50 million tons of grain to the global market this year, President Vladimir Putin has said. Speaking at a meeting of BRICS Plus format, Putin said the deliveries will depend on the situation with insurance of vessels, transporting food, bank payments and other restrictions imposed on […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Moscow hopes “already damaged” ties between Russia and the European Union will not deteriorate further with EU candidate status granted to Ukraine and Moldova, the Kremlin spokesman has said. “It is important (that these processes) do not lead to further deterioration of our relations with the EU, because it is ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – UN Special Representative for Afghanistan Ramiz Alakbarov has said that dialogue with Taliban authorities is key in the crisis-hit nation, as the situation regarding human rights and the economy remains precarious. Alakbarov said at a UN Security Council meeting that basic human rights, freedom of expression and freedom...
VIENNA (AA) – More than 280 million people used drugs worldwide in 2020, the head of the UN drugs agency said on Thursday. In a message released ahead of International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26, Ghada Fathi Waly, the director-general of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, said that […]
ANKARA (AA) – There must be unity, harmony and solidarity among NATO allies against common security and terrorist threats, Türkiye’s Presidential spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin said in a phone call with US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan on Thursday. Along with bilateral political and economic ties, the officials held discussions on ...
GENEVA (AA) – Amid reports of surging cases in Europe, a special committee of the World Health Organization began meeting Thursday to decide whether monkeypox should be declared a global “public health emergency.” The emergency committee will advise the WHO chief “on whether the event constitutes a Public Health Emergency of Internationa...
BRUSSELS (AA) – NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has said that he discussed Türkiye’s security concerns with Sweden’s prime minister. “(I) spoke with Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on Sweden’s NATO application and the security concerns raised by our Ally Türkiye,” Stoltenberg stated in a Twitter post. He stressed that “talks on th...
A deadly earthquake has killed over 1,000 people and injured nearly 1,600 in eastern Afghanistan, officials said today. Bakhtar News Agency reports the death toll could rise as rescue operations continue in Paktika and Khost provinces. There hundreds of houses were destroyed by the last night’s magnitude 6.1 earthquake, Taliban officia...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye’s parliament speaker stressed Tuesday the necessity to alleviate the heavy migration burden on certain countries, including his own, as well as the importance of ensuring fair burden-sharing. “We can only achieve solidarity by accepting refugees to our countries duly and fairly in line with the rules of internatio...
LONDON (AA) – Mohammed Hanif, a British-Pakistani writer, has announced his withdrawal from a conference in Germany after Mohammed El-Kurd, a Palestinian writer and poet, was disinvited. The conference is being organized by the Goethe Institute and is titled Beyond the Lone Offender – Dynamics of the Global Right. It will take place in H...