TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran will respond appropriately to any decision by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), its Foreign Ministry said Monday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Said Hatibzade said a draft resolution submitted to the IAEA Board of Governors is invalid and any anti-Iran decision would harm talks between Tehran and global...
ANKARA (AA) – Yemen’s warring sides have agreed to launch a coordination room to help pave the way for bringing the country’s seven-year war to a close. Military representatives from the Yemeni government, the Coalition Joint Forces Command and the Houthis were gathered in Jordan’s capital Amman by the Office of the Special Envoy f...
Umm Ḩajrah, Syria – (AFP): Syria is among the countries most vulnerable and poorly prepared for climate change, which is forecast to worsen, posing a further threat to the wheat harvests that are an essential income source for a war-battered population. The trend is most evident in Syria’s once-fertile northeast where wheat fields ...
Algiers, Algeria – (AFP): The son of a French anti-imperialist tortured and killed by the French army during Algeria’s war of independence has said he cannot forgive and that the “truth” is more important than apologies offered by Paris. Maurice Audin, a mathematician and communist who supported Algeria’s struggle...
N’Djamena, Chad – (AFP): Six opposition leaders arrested after violent anti-French protests in N’Djamena were on Monday handed one-year suspended sentences for disturbing public order. They were also fined 10 million CFA francs, or about 15,000 euros. Those charged included Max Loalngar, coordinator for Wakit Tamma, Chad̵...
ANKARA- Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said he will attend the Group of 20 meeting in Indonesia later this year despite Russian President Vladimir Putin’s expected participation. “… the work of the G20 is critical at this time of global economic uncertainty,” Albanese said during a brief interaction with...
ANKARA – Over 77% of voters in Kazakhstan have approved constitutional amendments that seek a new governance model according to the Foreign Ministry. As many as 77.18 % of the voters in the June 5 referendum “approved the proposed amendments, paving the way for changing 33, or one third articles of the document initially adopted [&...
ANKARA – At least 32 journalists have been killed in Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine, the Ukrainian culture and information policy minister has said. As Ukraine marks its annual Journalists Day, Oleksandr Tkachenko hailed all journalists working in the war-ravaged country as “heroes.” “Eternal memory to our fighters of information front. All j...
ANKARA – The Russian Embassy in Libya will resume work soon, according to the Russian presidential envoy for the Middle East and Africa. Mikhail Bogdanov told reporters that the opening of the Russian Embassy in Libya will be “very soon.” Russia relocated its embassy in Libya to neighboring Tunisia in 2014 for security reasons. The […]...
ANKARA – Turkish security “neutralized” two PKK fighters in northern Iraq, according to the National Defense Ministry. The “terrorists were neutralized” in the Operation Claw-Tiger zone with support from the Air Force, the ministry said on Twitter. “Our fight against terrorists in northern Iraq continues wit...
