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MOSCOW / BEIJING (AA) – China’s President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Russia next week, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson has announced. “At the invitation of President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation, President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Russia from March 20 to 22,” Hua Chunying tweeted. She [&hel...
ANKARA (AA) – The US has denied providing helicopter piloting training to SDF partners in Syria after a helicopter carrying PKK members crashed in northern Iraq. Following the crash of a helicopter carrying PKK members in northern Iraq, the questions of how the helicopter ended up in the hands of the PKK and the source […]
ANKARA (AA) – North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has again threatened to use nuclear weapons if the US and South Korea continue to show “open hostility” toward Pyongyang. “We will continue to make the U.S. and South Korea, which show open hostility towards the DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea) and frequent...
SRINAGAR, Jammu and Kashmir (AA) – The administration of Ladakh plans to notify more than 71,000 acres of land (about 287 sq km) for the occupying Indian army’s artillery practice and field firing. Ladakh was a part of the predominantly Muslim region of Jammu and Kashmir under occupation by India. It is a Himalayan cold […]
Tunis, Tunisia (AFP): Tunisian interior minister Taoufik Charfeddine, a close aide of President Kais Saied, announced Friday he had resigned to spend more time with his children following the death of his wife last year. Charfeddine, 54, who had held his post since October 2021, told reporters he wished to thank the president for “his [&...
Niamey, Niger (AFP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has vowed to broaden support for the violence-wracked Sahel beyond the realm of security, pitching the United States as a better partner than Russia, which has been expanding its footprint in the region. Speaking to AFP on the highest-level visit ever by a US official to […]
ANKARA (AA) – Russia reiterated on Friday that the International Criminal Court (ICC) decisions have “no meaning” for Moscow, “including from a legal point of view.” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s reaction on Telegram came following the ICC decision to issue “warrants of arrest&...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Friday welcomed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s announcement to move ahead with Finland’s NATO membership bid, the White House said. “The United States welcomes President Erdogan’s announcement that he will send Finland’s NATO accession protocols to the Turkish Parliament and looks forw...
GENEVA (AA) – UN will do its “utmost” to ensure continuity of the Black Sea grain deal, the director at UN Information Services has said, noting that consultations are still ongoing. As the deal is ending and there is still no outcome of the ongoing consultations, Alessandra Vellucci said in the bi-weekly briefing that they [...
DOUALA, Cameroon (AA) – Ten million children living in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger are in urgent need of humanitarian assistance, twice as many as in 2020 due to intensifying conflicts, UNICEF warned Friday. “Armed conflict is increasingly affecting children, who are victims of intensified military clashes or targeted by non-state...
