TEHRAN / KARACHI (AA): Iran and Pakistan on Thursday inaugurated a border market as well as an electricity transmission line in the presence of top government officials. The Mand-Pishin Border Sustenance Marketplace is one of six border markets planned for the two neighboring countries’ shared border, as agreed in a memorandum of underst...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Kazakh companies agreed Wednesday on the export of over $60 million worth of goods to Iran during a visit by Kazakh Prime Minister Alikhan Smailov to the country. During an event organized by the QazTrade Center for Development of Trade Policy, which involved representatives of the Kazakh and Iranian agricultural sectors ...
BUENOS AIRES (AA) – Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva has signaled his intent to move away from the US-dollar dependence in international trade. “Why are all the countries obliged to do their trade in dollars?” said Lula while attending the inauguration ceremony of President Dilma Rousseff at the New Development Bank...
Dakar, Senegal (AFP): Discarded containers and bags are an eyesore in many towns, while beaches are covered by debris — Senegal’s notorious problem of plastic pollution is not going away. Fly-tipping is a scourge and landfills like the sprawling Mbeubeuss site near the capital Dakar are overstretched, with several thousand tonnes o...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – An international anti-corruption watchdog on Friday suggested the Bangladesh government revisit a deal with the crisis-hit Adani group to purchase 1,600 MW of power, describing the agreement as discriminatory and non-transparent. In a statement, Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) asked the government to ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The 38th ministerial meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in the fields of economy and commerce began in Istanbul on Saturday. The four-day meeting of the Committee for Economic And Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) will discuss economic developments in the world, with special reference to OIC member cou...
ANKARA (AA) – Hailing longstanding bilateral ties, the Turkish president on Friday said his country is also rapidly developing its trilateral cooperation with Pakistan and Azerbaijan. “In addition to our bilateral cooperation, we also exchanged views on important regional and international issues on our common agenda,” Recep Tayyip...
BERLIN (AA) – German-Iranian ties have had their ups and downs, with a dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program largely dominating bilateral relations for the past eight years. However, there were also other problems — among them Western concern over Iran’s human rights situation and Tehran’s role in countries like Iraq, Syria, Lebano...
MOSCOW (AA) – The Kremlin has said that the Istanbul grain deal is only partially being implemented because while grain shipment from Ukraine via the Black Sea is being carried out, Russian grain exports are not allowed. Speaking at a press briefing in Moscow, Dmitry Peskov said the work is underway to prepare a meeting […]
ISLAMABAD (AA) – Türkiye and Pakistan have signed a trade agreement aimed to achieve the objective of pushing bilateral trade up to $5 billion. The signing ceremony was held in Pakistan’s capital Islamabad and was attended by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and other senior officials. The “Trade in Goods Agreement” was signed by Pakistan’s...
