ANKARA (AA) – The European Union’s foreign policy chief has said that the bloc will consider all options including “restrictive measures” against Iran for its crackdown on protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in police custody. Speaking during a debate in the plenary of the European Parliament on Amini’s de...
ASTANA, Kazakhstan (AA) – Over 200,000 Russian nationals have entered Kazakhstan since the announcement of partial mobilization on September 21 in Russia, a Kazakh official has said. “68 people have applied for Kazakhstan citizenship,” Kazakhstan’s Interior Minister Marat Akhmetzhanov told reporters after the weekly cabinet m...
Malang, Indonesia (AFP): Elite Indonesian police officers are under investigation over a stadium stampede that killed 131 people, including dozens of children, in one of the deadliest disasters in football history. As public anger grew, police moved to punish those responsible for the crush in the city of Malang that witnesses say started when...
BEIRUT (AA) – Depositors stormed at least four banks in Lebanon on Tuesday to demand access to their savings amid a severe economic crisis in the country. The Association of Depositors, an NGO that advocates rights of depositors, said a retired officer stormed an LBC Bank branch in the town of Chtoura in eastern Lebanon […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Two Pakistan Army soldiers and seven militants were killed in separate clashes in the country’s northwest province on Tuesday. A group of militants fired on a military convoy in the Hassan Khel area of the Lakki Marwat district in northwestern Kyber Pakhtunkhwa, prompting an immediate response by the troops...
KUALA LUMPUR (AA) – Turkish Parliament Speaker Mustafa Sentop discussed bilateral relations with his Malaysian counterparts in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday. Sentop met Azhar Azizan Harun and Rais Yatim, heads of the lower and upper chambers of Malaysia’s parliament, and praised bilateral relations between Türkiye and Malaysia. Sentop said tha...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Just a week after a Japanese political affairs consul was declared persona non grata by Russia, Tokyo has asked a Russian diplomat to leave the country. The move comes in response to Moscow’s decision last week to declare a Japanese diplomat persona non grata after being “caught red-handed receiving classified information about...
Seoul, South Korea (AFP): North Korea fired a ballistic missile over Japan for the first time in five years Tuesday, prompting Tokyo to activate its missile alert system and issue a rare warning for people to take shelter. The latest launch — which the United States branded “reckless and dangerous” — comes in a record [...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Union has reiterated its “strong opposition” to Israel’s settlement policy and support for the two-state solution at the meeting of the EU-Israel Association Council. Chaired by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell and Intelligence Minister Elazar Stern, the high-level meeting between the EU and Israel took place ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Türkiye called Tuesday on Yemen’s warring parties to “show effort to reintroduce the truce” after an Oct. 2 deadline for extending it expired. “We regret that the efforts to extend the truce declared in Yemen on April 2 were inconclusive this time,” the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement. “We call […]...
