ANKARA (AA) – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday submitted to parliament a draft constitutional law on the admission of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia regions to the Russian Federation, state media reported. The Russian state media also reported that parliamentary elections in the four annexed regions will ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Kuwait’s Crown Prince Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah has accepted the resignation of the government. Prime Minister Sheikh Ahmad Nawaf Al-Sabah submitted his government’s resignation and the crown prince accepted it on Sunday and asked the government to stay on in a caretaker capacity, the state news agency KUNA re...
JERUSALEM (AA) – The Israeli government on Sunday approved the appointment of Irit Lillian as Israel’s new ambassador to Türkiye. In a statement on Twitter, Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said the move is “another important step in repairing relations with Türkiye that we have been working on for the past year.” On Septemb...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – An Iranian pilgrim arrested by Saudi authorities during the Hajj pilgrimage in July has been released by Riyadh following mediation by Iraq and Oman. The news was delivered to Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian by his Iraqi and Omani counterparts in separate calls on Saturday, according to a statement i...
ANKARA (AA) – Russia’s Constitutional Court has recognized as lawful the annexation treaties of Ukraine’s four breakaway regions. The court ruled on Sunday that the treaties on the admission of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic and Luhansk People’s Republic, as well as the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regi...
MADRID (AA) – Ukraine’s application to join NATO is not a “fundamental issue at the moment,” according to the EU’s foreign policy chief. “The important thing is to continue military support to this country and sanctions against Russia, as has been done up to now,” Josep Borrell told Spanish state telev...
ANKARA/DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Protesters attacked the French embassy in Burkina Faso’s capital after supporters of the country’s new coup leader accused France of giving refuge to the deposed interim president at a military camp. A video shared on social media shows that the demonstrators attacked the embassy building and fire also brok...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – A Pakistani court has issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Imran Khan for threatening a female judge at a public meeting in August. The warrant was issued by a magistrate in the capital Islamabad after the former premier failed to appear before him for a hearing. Khan had initially […]
TEHRAN (AA) – Iran and the US have held “intensive talks” in recent weeks mediated by “a regional country” regarding a prisoner swap and the release of Iran’s frozen assets abroad, according to Nour News, a news agency affiliated with Iran’s top security body. It also said the release of Iran’s f...
Kabul, Afghanistan (AFP): Students of the minority Hazara community remain unfazed by the obstacles to education in Afghanistan and have pledged that they will return to class. “Education is our weapon and they want to take this weapon away from us,” said 19-year-old Wajiha, a day after escaping the assault that killed 35. “I...
