ANKARA (AA) – A peace meeting planned next month between Azerbaijan and Armenia has been called off over Armenia’s insistence on involving France, Azerbaijan’s president has announced. The December 7 meeting with Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan in Brussels will not be held, said Ilham Aliyev, addressing a conference in the capita...
MOSCOW (AA) – Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev will pay his first foreign visit to Russia after his reelection early this week, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has confirmed. Speaking at a press briefing in Moscow, Peskov said Tokayev will pay an official visit, during which he plans to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Pu...
JERUSALEM (AA) – Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to offer far-right Zionist politician Itamar Ben-Gvir the portfolio of the National Security minister in the new government. Netanyahu’s Likud party agreed with Ben-Gvir, the head of the Jewish Strength party, on other positions as well. These include t...
Cianjur, Indonesia (AFP): A seven-year-old Indonesian girl who was the subject of a day-long rescue effort after an earthquake killed at least 310 people in West Java has been found dead, rescuers told AFP Friday. Emergency workers found the body of Ashika Nur Fauziah, also known as Cika, under rubble in the worst-hit district of […]
Kobane, Syria (AFP): In the Syrian Kurdish city of Kobane, gripped by fear of a Turkish offensive, Saleh Abdo Khalil passes an open-air “museum” of buildings reduced to rubble. “Daesh destroyed these buildings,” the local baker said, using an acronym for Islamic State (IS) group. That danger has passed, but now, he says...
Tripoli, Libya (AFP): Libya on Thursday sent more than 200 illegal migrants back across its land borders, in a rare display of cooperation from the country’s divided political institutions. The migrants, dressed in differing tracksuits to identify their nationalities, were handed biscuits, milk and bottles of water by police in Tripoli, ...
Beirut, Lebanon (AFP): Kurdish forces in northern Syria announced Thursday the deaths of eight fighters following Turkish airstrikes that targeted their positions at Al-Hol camp. The Turkish strikes “left dead eight of our fighters responsible for protection of the camp,” the US-supported Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said in a st...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The Canadian government has unveiled a new CAN$1.6 billion ($1.2 billion) five-year climate action plan to help deal with storms, floods and forest fires. Canada has been hit with several disasters due to climate change. Emergency Preparedness Minister Bill Blair announced the new strategy while in Prince Edward Is...
ANKARA (AA) – French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin has criticized Mathilde Paris, a lawmaker from the far-right political party National Rally, for “lashing out at the government rather than the Italians” over migrants row. Asked about the Ocean Viking row with Italy, in a National Assembly session, Darmanin said: “I am v...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Türkiye has the right to protect itself against terrorist attacks, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Thursday. In response to a question in the Riksdag, or parliament, by Green Party spokeswoman Marta Stenevi, Kristersson said it must be admitted that Türkiye is a country that has been subjected to terrorist at...
