ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye and Russia have held political consultations in Istanbul on Thursday and Friday, and addressed regional issues as Ankara reiterated its expectation from Moscow on its pledges regarding the withdrawal of Kurdish nationalist PKK/YPG militants from Syria. Delegations headed by Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Sedat Onal...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – The European Union is concerned about the security situation in northern Kosovo and is monitoring it closely, a European Commission spokesman has said. Muslim-majority Kosovo has begun deploying more police units to the north of the country as tensions are escalating between ethnic Serbs and the Kosovar government...
ROME (AA) – Italy has given the authorization to disembark to two nongovernmental rescue ships that were waiting in the Mediterranean Sea with more than 500 irregular migrants. French-based medical charity ‘Doctors Without Borders’ wrote on Twitter that the Geo Barents ship with 248 migrants had been allowed to dock at the Sa...
RIYADH (AA) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has expressed grave concern over the injustices suffered by Palestinians and affirmed China’s support for an independent Palestinian state. “It is not possible to continue the historical injustice suffered by the Palestinians,” the Chinese president said at the opening of the Riyadh-Gulf-Chinese...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The 43rd summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) announced Friday its rejection of what it described as Iranian interventions in the region. It called for the continuation of implementing the Istanbul grain deal between Russia and Ukraine. The announcements came in the final statement of the summit which was held in ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A group of Rohingya who had been drifting in a boat on the Andaman Sea along the Thailand coast were rescued by a Vietnamese oil service vessel and handed to the Myanmar military government. The boat was floating in Thai territory. The Thai Navy went to examine the boat but did […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – The incoming government led by Benjamin Netanyahu is shaping up to be the “most extreme and crazy” in Israel’s history, outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid has warned. “Netanyahu is weak and his partners are younger, more determined and more extreme than him, and have subdued him unconditionally,” Lapid said on Twitter. A...
N’Djamena, Chad (AFP): Eighty minors who had been arrested and held in a desert prison following deadly protests in Chad in October have been given bail, public prosecutor Moussa Wade Djibrine has said. “A request for (their) provisional release was filed and the judge accepted it,” he said, adding that proceedings against th...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has asked President Isaac Herzog for a two-week extension to form the government. “Negotiations are in full swing, and much progress has been made. However, I will require all the days of extension that you have the power to give me according to the law so that [&hellip...
MOSCOW (AA) – Talks between Russia and the US on the exchange of prisoners were not a step towards overcoming the crisis in bilateral relations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. “These talks were exclusively about the prisoner exchange, it is wrong to draw any such hypothetical conclusions that this may be a step towards [&helli...
