ANKARA – Iran blocked more than 9,000 bank accounts on Saturday over ‘suspicious and illegal foreign currency and cryptocurrency activities.’ A total of 9,219 bank accounts belonging to 545 individuals were blocked, according to a statement by the Ministry of Intelligence. The volume of the accounts was approximately 60 trillion Ir...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AA) – The Rotterdam Court in the Netherlands has ruled that the government should bring back 12 ISIS women and their 29 children from Syria. The court ruled that the women and children should be brought back to the country within four months if the Dutch Prosecutor’s Office does not want to lose […]
ABUJA, Nigeria (AA) – Nigeria’s minister of water resources warned Thursday that most regions of the country are at high risk of flooding. Suleiman Adamu in a statement said that 32 out of 36 provinces in the country may face severe storms and floods, noting there may be food shortages in these regions. Adamu also […]
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Albania’s parliament has rejected a resolution recognizing the genocide committed by Serb forces in 1995 in Srebrenica and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The resolution was initiated by Democratic Party MP Tritan Shehu. The opposition accused the majority led by Prime Minister Edi Rama, who all voted against the resoluti...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US has issued a general license to exempt northern Syrian territories, including those controlled by the PKK’s regional branch, from American sanctions. The Treasury Department’s action lifts prohibitions on business activities in 12 different economic sectors in northern Syria, including agriculture, te...
ISTANBUL – South Korea and Japan have claimed that North Korea launched a suspected ballistic missile toward the East Sea. In a brief statement, the South Korean military said Pyongyang fired the unspecified missile. Its launch came just two days after South Korea’s new president, Yoon Suk-yeol, was sworn in. The office of Japanese...
MOSCOW – Finland and Sweden joining NATO would pose a threat to Russia’s security, a Kremlin spokesman has said in response to the two Scandinavian countries making their clearest moves yet to seek membership. Apart from creating threats to Russia, NATO’s expansion eastward would “not contribute to security in Eurasia,”...
ANKARA – Turkiye has rejected claims made in the Iranian media outlets that Turkish dams were the cause of severe air pollution and sand storms in Iran. “Claims that dams in Turkiye caused sand and dust storms in our region are far from being scientific,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgic said. Asserting that sand and [...
ISTANBUL – An official of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) urged rapid actions to end or minimize the usage of fossil fuels by the end of the decade. IPCC is a UN body responsible for advancing knowledge on human-induced climate change. Joyashree Roy, one of the authors of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report […]
RAMALLAH, Palestine – The Palestinian Authority has welcomed international participation in an investigation into the death of Al Jazeera journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh. “We welcome the participation of all international bodies in the investigations into the assassination of Shireen Abu Akleh,” Palestinian Minister of Civil Af...
