TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned Germany’s ambassador Monday over Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s remarks on recent protests in Iran. Hans-Udo Muzel was summoned to protest against Scholz’s “interventionist and unconstructive” comments, the ministry said in a statement. Conveying Iran’s displeasure to...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Serbia and Kosova are on the “edge of another crisis,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned on Monday. “Kosovo and Serbia kept me busy this weekend in Paris. We are unhappily on the edge of another crisis and we have to get out of this crisis mode and look for […]
BERLIN (AA) – The EU will introduce a new sanctions package that will also include 30 Iranian individuals for their role in the security clampdown in Iran, Luxembourg’s foreign minister said on Monday. Speaking to the media ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, Jean Asselborn said that among the individuals are [&...
ANKARA (AA) – The UK on Monday announced further sanctions against Iranian officials in response to the country’s violent crackdown on protesters, a government statement said. “The UK will designate Communications Minister Issa Zarepour and a range of local law enforcement and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) official...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said that incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “does not believe in peace.” “I knew Netanyahu for a long time, since the 1990s … He is a man who doesn’t believe in peace,” Abbas said in an interview with Egypt’s Al-Qahera news channel...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (AA) – G20 countries must be at the forefront of action on emissions reduction, executive director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) has said. According to Inger Andersen, the longer these countries delay climate mitigation, the more costly it will be in both humanitarian and economic terms. Andersen...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has demolished four more Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank. Three structures were razed in the town of Minya, southwest of Bethlehem, the Commission Against the Wall and Settlements said in a statement. Israeli bulldozers also demolished a fourth house in the town of Tarqumiya, west of [&he...
ISTANBUL (AA) – An Iranian spy network has been busted in Azerbaijan, State Security Service said. Five Azerbaijani citizens who were part of the network were arrested for treason, the security service added in a statement. One of the citizens arrested worked as a captain in the country’s oil fleet in the Caspian Sea. He […]
JERUSALEM (AA) – An Israeli man was shot dead by a soldier on Monday on suspicion of being a Palestinian attempting to attack him, according to local media. Public broadcaster KAN said the incident took place at a bus stop near the central city of Ra’anana. The Israeli man was transferred to hospital but was […]
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye has refused to accept the message of condolence from the US on Sunday’s deadly terror attack in Istanbul. “I emphasize once again that we do not accept, and reject the condolence of the US Embassy,” Suleyman Soylu told reporters on Istiklal Avenue, where the terror attack took place. Turkiye considers the […]...
