ANKARA (AA) – Ayaz Mutallibov, the first president of Azerbaijan after the country declared its independence from the Soviet Union, passed away Sunday at the age of 83. Mutallibov was born in the capital Baku in 1938. After graduating from the Azerbaijan State Institute of Petroleum and Chemistry in 1962, Mutallibov in 1963 became a [&he...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia used high-precision weapons to hit a fuel depot near Lviv, Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a briefing in Moscow. It destroyed an airfield and a repair plant in Lviv and a missile depot near the capital Kyiv over the past day. “In total, since the beginning of the special […]
ISTANBUL (AA) – The next meeting of Russian and Ukrainian negotiating teams will be held in the Turkish metropolis Istanbul, the Turkish and Russian presidents agreed on Sunday. In a phone call, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Russia’s Vladimir Putin discussed the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine war and the negotiations, said a sta...
GENEVA (AA) – The number of civilians killed in Ukraine since Russia’s war on it began has climbed to 1,119, but is likely much higher, the UN said Sunday, as those fleeing the war have swelled to over 3.8 million. The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) said that from Feb. […]
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia’s media watchdog has warned media against publishing a recent interview with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine. “Roskomnadzor warns Russian media about the need to refrain from publishing this interview,” Roskomnadzor said in a statement on its official website. The statement added that ...
SANAA, Yemen (AA) – The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) has reiterated its commitment to reaching a political solution to the conflict in Yemen. GCC Secretary-General Nayef Al-Hajraf met Sunday in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, with Yemeni Foreign Minister Ahmed bin Mubarak for talks on developments in Yemen. The GCC has invited Yemen’s warring par...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Two Israeli police officers were killed and three injured in an attack in the northern city of Hadera on Sunday. The two attackers were shot dead by police, and the injured police officers were taken to the hospital. “Luckily, our police managed to neutralize the attackers and prevent a bigger terrorist attack.” [&h...
PARIS (AA) – France held talks Sunday with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates on diversifying Europe’s energy supplies in order to reduce the continent’s dependence on Russia. Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in a phone call with his Saudi and UAE counterparts Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud and Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahyan str...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Azerbaijan has denied claims by Russia that the Azerbaijani army had withdrawn its troops from a village in Karabakh and that it had violated a cease-fire agreement. “There have been no changes in the positions of the Azerbaijan Army in the village of Farrukh and on the surrounding high grounds, which are […]
PARIS (AA) – French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday distanced himself from his US counterpart Joe Biden calling Russian President Vladimir Putin a “butcher,” warning against an escalation of words and actions in Ukraine. “I will not use this kind of remark because I continue to talk with President Putin,” Macron told France 3 t...
