ISTANBUL – Clean energy spending accounts for only 4% or $710 billion of the total $18.2 trillion mobilized to rebuild economies after Covid crisis, according to the latest update of the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) Sustainable Recovery Tracker. Although green spending globally has shown an increase of 50% over the past five...
MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that all goals of the country’s “special military operation” in Ukraine will be achieved. Speaking ahead of the meeting with Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko, Putin said a clash between Russia and Ukraine was inevitable because the West was turning Ukraine into...
ISTANBUL – China has expressed disapproval of the US move to order its non-emergency workers and their family members to leave the COVID-19-hit Shanghai city. “China has lodged solemn representations with the US over its order to evacuate its consulate in Shanghai,” Zhao Lijian, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, told a news conference in Bei...
JERUSALEM – Israel’s Shin Bet security service has launched an investigation into suspicions that China planted a spy device in a thermal cup given as a gift to an Israeli minister, according to local media. The suspicions arose after a routine check of the gift found “suspicious materials.” The cup was sent from the Chinese [&hell...
WASHINGTON (AA) – At least 16 people were injured at a New York City subway station after a gunman opened fire on commuters early Tuesday. Ten suffered gunshot wounds, officials said at a news conference. Five are in critical condition at hospitals. New York Police Department Police Commissioner Keechant Sewell described the suspect as a...
ANKARA – The Russian Orthodox Church has urged Russians to support the country’s ongoing war against Ukraine. Underlining that the Russian war on Ukraine is a battle against degenerated Western liberal values, Patriarchate Kirill, head of the Church of Russia, said: “May the Lord help us to unite these difficult times for our coun...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Israel detained 20 Palestinians Tuesday in fresh raids carried out across the occupied West Bank, according to the military. In a statement, the army said the arrest campaign was carried out in cooperation with the Shin Bet security service and the Border Police. The Prisoners Media Office, a Palestinian NGO, said [&...
Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian woman in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday, the health ministry reported. Ghada Ibrahim Sabateen, a mother of six in her 40s, was shot by Israeli forces and died from her wounds. Eyewitnesses reported Israeli soldiers opened fire on the woman while she was walking near Husan village, […]
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – Tunisia and France on Tuesday discussed cooperation to protect young people against “violent extremism.” This came in talks between Tunisian Prime Minister Najla Bouden and Gilles Kepel, the special envoy of French President Emmanuel Macron. During the discussions, Bouden stressed the state’s role in red...
LONDON – The British government has announced sanctions against two Bosnian Serb leaders for undermining peace and security in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the wider Balkans region. Milorad Dodik, the Bosnian Serb member of the country’s tripartite Presidency Council, and Zeljka Cvijanovic, the president of the Serb entity Republika ...
