KIGALI, Rwanda (AA) – Mali’s military government has announced the expulsion of a UN peacekeeping mission spokesman for posts he made on Twitter following a diplomatic incident with the Ivory Coast. Olivier Salgado, from the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA), was given 72 hours to leave the country, the Foreign Minis...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Iran’s Tehran Stock Exchange on Tuesday launched trading in Iranian rial/Russian ruble. Some 2 million rubles traded in the Iranian stock market on Tuesday – with a ratio of 5,390 rials per ruble, Iran’s state-run news agency IRNA reported. The rial/ruble transactions began in the wake of Russian President Vladimir ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted Tuesday to approve Sweden’s and Finland’s NATO memberships, setting up a vote in the wider chamber. The passage of what are known as the Nordic countries’ ascension protocols was met without opposition during a voice vote. The only vote not in approval came fro...
AMMAN, Jordan (AA) – Syria has rejected a request to supply Jordan with 30 million cubic meters of water, said a Jordanian minister on Tuesday. The request was turned down “due to the water situation in Syria,” Minister of Water and Irrigation Muhammad Al-Najjar said in statements cited by the state-run Al-Mamlaka TV. Jordan seeks […]...
TEHRAN, Iran (AA) – Iran and Türkiye on Tuesday agreed to extend their gas supply contract for another 25 years and set an ambitious trade target of $30 billion. The agreements came during a meeting between Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Tehran. In his remarks at a joint […]
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye and Iran need to continue to fight terrorist groups in solidarity, as they stir up trouble for both countries, the Turkish president said in the Iranian capital Tehran on Tuesday. “The PJAK, PKK, PYD, YPG, and FETO terrorist organizations are troublemakers for both Türkiye and Iran. We need to continue the [&h...
ISTANBUL (AA) – All parties must “seriously learn from the hard lessons of the Ukraine crisis,” according to China’s top diplomat. “Apart from seriously impacting Europe, the Ukraine crisis has produced a negative spillover effect spreading around the world,” Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a Sunday night phone call with his Hungarian counter...
ANKARA (AA) – Russia, amid sanctions on the country, will not give up its development and will not return to decades ago as the “ill-wishers” predict, President Vladimir Putin has said. Chairing the meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects via a video link, Putin also vowed to beat the “col...
BRUSSELS (AA) – EU foreign ministers have reached a political agreement to send a further tranche of €500 million ($508 million) military aid for Ukraine. Speaking at a news conference after their meeting, EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said that the EU top diplomats “unanimously agreed on the need to continue to stand firmly […]...
ANKARA (AA) – A Turkish gendarmerie soldier was killed and another injured during an anti-terrorism operation in the eastern province of Van, the Interior Ministry said on Monday. The casualties occurred in an IED explosion in Van’s Catak district around 3.30 a.m. local time (0030GMT), according to a ministry statement. “We wish God’s mercy on...
