DAVOS, Switzerland (AA) – Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto has said that his country is hoping to relieve Türkiye’s security concerns, noting that “the PKK is a forbidden organization both in Sweden and Finland.” On the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, he said that a trilateral working...
ANKARA (AA) – A US think tank has suggested that Washington should consider the deployment of nuclear weapons in South Korea in the future amid growing tensions in the region. The Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has also recommended that the US and South Korea begin holding tabletop exercises to that end....
ANKARA (AA) – The foreign minister of Bosnia-Herzegovina has warned that the radicalized rhetoric recently used by Serb leader Milorad Dodik has revived the fear of political turmoil in the Muslim Balkan republic. On her country being granted European Union membership candidacy and the January 9 celebration of the anniversary of Republik...
RIYADH (AA) – Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has urged Israel’s new government to “work seriously to solve the Palestinian issue.” “We must focus on a path to resolve the Palestinian issue, which will happen through negotiation between the two sides,” Prince Faisal bin Farhan said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “This is [&...
MOSCOW (AA) – Russia’s foreign minister has said that he expects the situation in the Lachin corridor connecting Armenia to the Karabakh region to be settled soon. Azerbaijan provided data to the Russian military, showing that Armenia used the route to transport mines next to Azerbaijani positions. This is in violation of the peace agree...
ANKARA (AA) – A Spanish nonprofit organization has said that 2,390 irregular migrants died or were reported missing last year while trying to reach Spain. They included 288 women and 101 children, said Caminando Fronteras (Walking Borders), adding that 1,784 of the migrants died while trying to reach Spain’s Canary Islands by boat. It al...
WASHINGTON (AA) – Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday that Türkiye’s request for F-16 fighter jets and Sweden and Finland’s NATO bids are “not related.” Speaking to reporters following a meeting with his US counterpart Antony Blinken, Cavusoglu said the US Congress should not portray these separate issues...
JENIN, Palestine (AA/AFP) – Israeli troops killed two Palestinians in a raid on a refugee camp in the occupied West Bank on Thursday. “The two martyrs, Adham Jabarin and Jawad Bawaqna, were killed by the occupation bullets during the storming of the Jenin camp,” official Palestine TV reported. A special force of the Israeli a...
UNITED NATIONS (AA) – A UN envoy warned Wednesday that Israelis and Palestinians remain on a collision course amid heightened violence in the West Bank as well as escalating political and inflammatory rhetoric. “It is imperative that both sides refrain from provocations and unilateral steps — including at the holy sites in Jerusale...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – At least one person was killed and several others were injured in an hours-long gun battle between two groups along the Bangladesh-Myanmar border on Wednesday, according to local sources. The fighting took place near the no-man’s land at Ghumdhum-Tumbru frontline in Bangladesh’s southeastern border district of Bandarba...
