KYIV, Ukraine- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said that Ukraine wants direct talks between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin. “Putin is the one who makes the final decisions. We have long wanted a direct conversation,” Dmytro Kuleba said. Noting that Zelenskyy is “not afraid” of ...
WASHINGTON- Russia has become the world’s ‘most sanctioned country’ due to its war on Ukraine, according to recent data. Moscow has been subjected to 2,778 new sanctions in just under two weeks since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into Ukraine, bringing the total to 5,532, according to the global sanctions mo...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran said late Tuesday that two members of its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in a recent airstrike in Syria. In a statement, the IRGC’s public relations wing said the two military officials were killed in an airstrike Monday on the outskirts of Syria’s capital Damascus. The men have [&hell...
GENEVA – China has agreed to allow a UN visit to the Xinjiang region where it is accused of oppressing its Muslim minority. “I am pleased to announce that we have recently reached an agreement with the Government of China for a visit,” UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet said at the 48th […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least four security personnel were killed and over two dozen injured on Tuesday in a suspected suicide bombing in southwestern Pakistan. The second such bombing in less than a week occurred in the remote Sibi district of Balochistan province, just 30 minutes after President Arif Alvi left the town following [&...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The EU is preparing to consider the membership applications of Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia, EU term president France said Tuesday. In recent years both Georgia and Ukraine have had Russian-backed separatists on their territory, with Russian troops crossing into Georgia in 2008 and into Ukraine in 2014 and now, during th...
DOHA, Qatar (AA) – Libya has appointed an ambassador to Qatar for the first time in six years, according to a Libyan source on Tuesday. Mohamed Al-Lafi, one of the notables in al-Zawiyah city in the country’s west, was named ambassador to the Gulf nation, the source told Anadolu Agency. Al-Lafi has been a delegate […]
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Ennahda’s Rached Ghannouchi on Tuesday hailed the release of a senior party official by Tunisian authorities as “a new start” for the country. Noureddine el-Beheiry, Ennahda’s deputy leader, was released on Monday evening after being under house arrest since Dec. 31, 2021, over “terror” accusations...
WASHINGTON- US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has ordered the deployment of 500 more troops to Europe to bolster NATO’s capabilities against Russia. The measure has been taken in order to “augment” forces that have already been deployed to Europe. “These additional forces are going to be positioned to respond to the ...
ISTANBUL – Poland has not sent any fighter aircraft to Ukraine to support its defense against Russia, said Maciej Wasik, a deputy interior minister. “A decision on this type of aid should be taken at the NATO level, and it should be uniform for all NATO countries. It should not be the case that one […]