ANKARA (AA): Australia will provide an additional $29 million to humanitarian partners to respond to the growing food security crisis and to assist vulnerable people in Asian and African countries. The package includes $15 million to address increased humanitarian, displacement, and protection needs of people in drought-affected areas in Ethio...
Baghdad, Iraq (AFP): Iraq on Saturday presented an ambitious plan to turn itself into a regional transportation hub by developing its road and rail infrastructure, linking Europe with the Middle East. Once completed, the $17 billion project known as the “Route of Development” would span the length of the country, stretching 1,200 k...
MOSCOW (AA): Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the West of provoking global energy and food crises. The Western countries and alliances are trying to preserve their dominance in the world, ignoring the interests of other nations, creating conflicts and instability, Putin said via videoconference, addressing the 11th International Me...
ANKARA (AA): Egypt has denied Ethiopian claims of reaching an agreement on the period of filling a hydroelectric dam being built on the Nile River. Egypt and Ethiopia have been logged in a years-long dispute on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile, a tributary of the Nile River. Egypt views the […]...
DOHA, Qatar (AA): The Qatari energy minister has said the only thing that “will save humanity and Europe this year is a warm winter.” “If the economy starts churning back up in 2024, and you have just a regular winter, I think the worst is yet to come,” Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi said during the Qatar […]
Jakarta, Indonesia (AFP): Indonesia and Iran signed a trade agreement on Tuesday in Jakarta, where President Joko Widodo hosted his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi. Tehran is aiming to boost its international trade ties to try and offset the economic impact of heavy Western and international sanctions. Raisi’s two-day visit to Indonesi...
Arbil, Iraq (AFP): Turkey’s presidential election is being anxiously watched by Kurds in Syria and Iraq as economic interests compete with fears of a regional military escalation against some Kurdish groups. The long-running and deadly conflict between Ankara and groups from the ethnic Kurdish minority has spilled across the borders of b...
KAZAN, Tatarstan (AA): Tatarstan’s head of state Rustem Minnihanov has said Russia’s relations with the Islamic world are gaining special importance with the growing share of international trade. Speaking at the plenary session of the 14th International Economic Forum “Russia – the Islamic World: KazanForum” held in Tat...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): The top diplomats of Iran and Afghanistan on Thursday discussed their long-running water dispute, according to the Afghan Foreign Ministry. During the conversation between the Taliban administration’s acting Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi and his Iranian counterpart Hossein Amirabdollahian discussed various ...
TEHRAN / KARACHI (AA): Iran and Pakistan on Thursday inaugurated a border market as well as an electricity transmission line in the presence of top government officials. The Mand-Pishin Border Sustenance Marketplace is one of six border markets planned for the two neighboring countries’ shared border, as agreed in a memorandum of underst...
